A Vision statement is like a compass in the working of a company, it sets the direction the company wants to move forward in. A mission statement on the other hand together with values and objectives is the steering wheel for the day to day operations in the company - classical “brandonomics”. What business school does not teach you is, it might take years, probably even decades for a vision statement to come to life, and for John Gage, he could probably be one of those few who is slowly seeing his vision take shape in his former company, SUN Microsystems. For the records, John Gage is the man who came up with the phrase “the network is the computer” back in the days and clearly, SUN has got its foot closer than ever to that statement .

Below is a SIME exclusive with former Vice-President, Web and Internet Industry at SUN (currently working with Virident Systems, the architect of the GreenCloud server platform to help support the growth of GreenCloud in Web 2.0 data centers) Bob DeMartino who in his brief 2 minute interview talks about how increasingly true is the statement “the network is the computer”, to managing innovations within SUN, and, the dire need to be strategically agile to be a global leader in todays marketplace.

Bob has been accredited for managing the enterprise business within SUN in the 90’s bringing over half a billion in revenues. He also has been pioneering the Web 2.0 movement within SUN, bringing in 280M USD in revenues by working with the likes of Yahoo, eBay, LinkedIn etc.

Below is the interview:

A related SIME talk was by Stephen Parish on “the price of success vs cost of failure and the role of cloud computing.
Watch the talk here