As you probably know, Kinect is the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever (Guiness Book of Wold Records) In order to sustain growth on Kinect / Xbox and other key Microsoft Consumer Products sold in Retail (Office, Windows PC, Windows Phone, PC Hardware), we are hiring Marketing & Sales talents at Microsoft, in Belgium /
‘Slim met telewerken’: dat was zowat de teneur van alle mediaberichten over Microsoft werknemers die maandagochtend gingen flexwerken in een Carestel autowegenrestaurant in de buurt van Brussel. Pendelaars die in de file stonden voor het Viduct van Vilvoorde dat grote herstelwerkzaamheden ondergaat, konden op die manier zien hoe je vanuit elke locatie toch kan werken.
“Le télé-travail, c’est travailler malin”: voilà ce que l’on pouvait entendre ou lire dans les médias à propos de l’action pour le travail flexible des employés de Microsoft. Pour cette action, ils ont travaillé lundi matin dans les restaurants d’autoroute Carestel, situés sur les axes en direction de Bruxelles. Les navetteurs coincés dans les embouteillages
Vanaf vandaag starten de werken aan het viaduct in Vilvoorde; het drukste verkeerspuntpunt van de stad die het grootste fileleed kent van Europa. Deze zomer komen er nog wegenwerken aan: de E19 in Antwerpen zuid en Noord, de E17 in De Pinte, de E313 in Antwerpen en Tessenderlo. En ook in Wallonie zijn er werken
Dès aujourd’hui, les travaux sur le viaduc de Vilvorde vont commencer. Ce passage très fréquenté est déjà fort encombré sans travaux ; de plus il se situe à l’entrée de la ville qui a détenu la palme des plus gros embouteillages d’Europe. Mais cet été, ce n’est pas seulement ce viaduc qui subira des modifications,
Coming from an FMCG company (11 years at Unilever) and working now at Microsoft for 4 years, I’ve a good feeling of what’s important for the consumers (their needs) while I observe how the consumers are consuming new technologies & media now and how it could change in the Future. In 1960, a concept
A Logo Is Not a Brand Very interesting reading in Hervard Business Review http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/06/a-logo-is-not-a-brand.html Key leraning’s here-below. Lots of organizations and lots of people think that brand begins and ends with a LOGO. Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything, and everything is brand. Brand is your strategy. If you’re
This a great infographic about where mobile commerce is going. You can see that by 2015 it’s predicted that mobile purchases will total $119 billion globally (against an overall ecommerce spend of $1.4 trillion). Source : http://tag.microsoft.com/Libraries/Blog/the-intelligent-shopper-sm.sflb.ashx
The 23rd of June, we have the Innovation Day @ Microsoft Innovation Center in Mons : Innov@MIC. The event looks very promising ! We have more than 20 speakers with some “guest stars”, as: • Tom Palmaerts, elected Trendwatcher from the year 2010, unveil us the trends of tomorrow; • Braden Kelley, author of the book “stocking
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a convenient way of measuring and comparing the size of national economies. Annual GDP represents the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a year. Put differently: GDP = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports – imports) Although the economies of countries like
Interesting reading from gaspedal : “3 Word of mouth tips for retailers”Whether you’re a one-location store or a national retail chain, you can have amazing word of mouth. How to get started: 1. Give them something to share Never let a customer walk out the door without offering them something to share. Think
E3 is just done @ Los-Angeles. I was so happy to be there. E3 is The Electronic Entertainment Expo. This is the premiere event of the year for everyone involved in the global interactive entertainment industry. E3 Expo delivers an unmatched and highly qualified audience of developers, retail buyers, international and U.S.–based trade and consumer media,
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Activision Activision opened the show with the first gameplay footage of their newest release in their action packed franchise. As always, Xbox 360 owners will get all the content first for this game. Make sure you ask Santa for this one! Tomb Raider – Crystal Dynamics Go on
Electronic Arts began their keynote by enthusiastically stating how they don’t have “random celebrity guests” but only games. Take-out and key demos / trailers from this EA Press Conference @ E3 2011 (Los-Angeles) Mass Effect 3 dated, March 6th, 2012. Need For Speed: The Run announced. There are out-of-car gameplay segments. The Sims Social announced. Play out Facebook events
Just seen the Ubisoft Press Conference E3. Some great stuff to come. First, the launch of Assassin’s Creed Revelations in November. Then, Rayman which seems great. Take a look at the demo here-below. Interesting new concept called Rocksmith and you can plug your own guitar. I really want to test it tomorrow at E3. Rabbids
I had the chance to be, this morning, in the Xbox 360 Media Briefing @ E311 – Los Angeles. You will find HERE the full conference Here-below, some key outcome The show started with a cool demo of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Then, we saw a demo of tomb raider. We discovered the