Mission Statements of Tech Companies

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Mission Statements of Tech Companies & Sites

Some of the 25 statements listed below are from the official website of the company, while others

were found from second hand sources; some are official mission statements, others are parts

taken from company overviews or the introduction to a site¶s About page, as not all companiesor sites define their mission clearly.

1. IBM: ³At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the

industry¶s most advanced information technologies, including computer systems,

software, storage systems and microelectronics. We translate these advancedtechnologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and

consulting businesses worldwide.´2. Digg: ³Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the

web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won¶t find editors at Digg ± we¶re here to

provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we¶rechanging the way people consume information online.´

3. 43things.com: ³Discover what¶s important, make it happen, share your progress.´4. Microsoft: ³At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses

throughout the world realize their full potential.´5. Cisco: ³Cisco ... enables people to make powerful connections ± whether in business,

education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings areused to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to

information anywhere, at any time.´6. Google: ³Google¶s mission is to organize the world¶s information and make it

universally accessible and useful.´

7. W

ikipedia: ³Wikipedia ... is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project... Visitors do not need specialised qualifications to contribute, since their primaryrole is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages

and cultural and social background can write Wikipedia articles. With rare exceptions,articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit

this page link.´And from the Wikimedia Foundation: ³The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to

empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational contentunder a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and

globally. ...the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizationalframework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful

information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.´8. Apple: ³Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-

winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications.Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and

video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.´



9. Intel: ³Delight our customers, employees, and shareholders by relentlessly delivering the platform and technology advancements that become essential to the way we work and

live.´10. Dell: ³Dell¶s mission is to be the most successful computer company in the world at

delivering the best customer experience in markets we serve.

11. Sony: ³Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and informationtechnology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the

most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.´12. Techmeme: ³... the next big story in technology may reside on a blog you¶ve never heard

of or a news site you don¶t have time to scan. So I built a software agent to surface theselinks in real time and the result is Techmeme´

13. Amazon: ³Our vision is to be earth¶s most customer centric company; to build a placewhere people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.´

14. Ebay: ³eBay¶s mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyonecan trade practically anything.´

15. Twitter: ³Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate andstay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question:

What are you doing?´16. Yahoo: ³To connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world¶s

knowledge.´17. Facebook: ³Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently

with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies thatfacilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of

people¶s real-world social connections.´18. Blogger: ³... focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing

the world¶s information from the personal perspective.´19. Sun Microsystems: ³The Network Is The Computer ... Sun was founded with one

driving vision. A vision of computers that talk to each other no matter who built them. Avision in which technology works for you, not the other way around. While others

protected proprietary, stand-alone architectures, we focused on taking companies into thenetwork age, providing systems and software with the scalability and reliability needed to

drive the electronic marketplace.´20. Techcrunch: ³... dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products

and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companiesthat are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.´

21. StumbleUpon: ³StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites.´22. Del.icio.us: ³... the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which

allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks fromanywhere, too. ... You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends

and other people bookmark´23. Fark.com: ³... a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site ... The idea

was to have the word Fark come to symbolize news that is really Not News.´24. Orkut: ³orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and

stimulating. orkut¶s social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you¶ve never



met before... It is our mission to help you create a closer, more intimate network of friends. We hope to put you on the path to social bliss soon.´

25. Adobe: ³Our mission is to revolutionize how the world engages with ideas andinformation.´

W ikipedia defines a mission statement as follows: ³... a brief statement of the purpose of acompany or religious or other organization. Companies sometimes use their mission statement

as an advertising slogan, but the intention of a genuine mission statement is to keep members

and users aware of the organization¶s purpose.´ ( W ikipedia adds, ³In the case of publiccommercial companies, the primary purpose must always be to uphold the interests of

shareholders, whatever the mission statement.´) Vision

For a safer and better world, to assist former WMD experts in the transition to self-supporting, peaceful activities in theinternational science and business communities« and to do so using the best professional practices.

Mission

To implement the nonproliferation policies of the STCU Parties in an efficient, professional manner by:

y Facilitating research opportunities for former weapons-of-mass-destruction scientists that permanently redirects their talents to peaceful aims,

y Assisting the protection and exploitation of research results attained to benefit the scientists creating them and theeconomies and societies of the Parties governing the Center,

y Supporting the integration of the scientists into credible international, national and regional research efforts in theglobal scientific and business communities.

Near-Term Strategy

In the next five to seven years, it is crucial to the above mission that the STCU invigorate its sustainability and partnershipfunctions, while continuing to maintain its other programs and functions. Rather than simply continuing to oversee projects thatdo not contribute to the long-term self-sufficiency of ex-Soviet weapon scientists or institutes, the STCU has to take the lead inhelping those scientists and institutes stand on their own by guiding them towards successful integration into the global economicand business communities. The goal is for STCU grant recipients to become self-supporting and to make high-value contributionsto domestic and global science and technology issues (both commercial and non-commercial). They must be weaned fromdependency on the donor Parties¶ STCU project funding and be given the skills, experience, and reputation to compete andcontribute on their own in the international science, academic, and commercial worlds.

For the most part, this means preparing and guiding the recipient scientists and technicians to make the most out of their research,whether it results in commercially viable products, or continuing research funding interest outside the STCU. They must developlong-term relationships with private sector and/or governmental partners. Most of all they must become expert with regard to allthe requirements of sustained, supported scientific research and technology development in their countries, their regions, andinternationally - from being able to write competitive project proposals to knowing how to protect and exploit the intellectual property rights these projects may spin off.

This will require a set of strategic objectives that reflect the new focus on redirection to self-sustaining civilian employment. Itwill also require a review and reform of existing STCU activities as well as a well-thought-out distribution of portfolios withinthe executive staff and across the organization.

The following strategic objectives define the direction of the STCU in the next five to seven years:

y Create and implement new programs and activities (or overhaul existing programs and activities) to more effectivelyassist former weapon scientists and institutes in developing their skills and capabilities to support themselves withoutdirect STCU assistance.



o Training programs that build competencies in program management, market analysis and business planning,intellectual property protection and exploitation, strategic planning at the institute level, and competingeffectively for research grants.

o Patent and licensing support of intellectual property, including guidance and financial assistance for patentapplications.

o Focused programmatic approaches to improve the scientific excellence of recipient institutes or groups of scientists.

o Leveraging other S&T cooperative assistance activities where STCU recipient scientists can participate or compete, such as World Bank programs, UN economic or industrial development programs, and bilateral/multilateral scientific governmental or private foundation programs.

y Increase the amount of private sector funding and improve the cooperative depth of private sector projects (i.e., projectsthat more substantively fulfill actual customer needs and do less concept exploration) to encourage long-term partnerships and sustainability for former weapon scientists and institutes.

o Develop a systemic approach to targeted matchmaking for promising scientific teams and institutes matching

core competencies of recipients to commercial and non-commercial customer requirements in order tofacilitate partnerships.

o Design a strategy that includes annual plans for substantial and effective participation in a wide variety of economic, business, and S&T forums to showcase STCU recipient core competencies and capabilities, buildcontacts and opportunities for attracting partners, and gain applicable "salesmanship" experience for therecipients.

o Assist recipient scientists and institutes in identifying current and near term technology priorities of privatesector entities and markets, both commercial and non-commercial, and guide them in developing projects

whose results meet those priorities.y Increase the level of active participation and funding from recipient governments for S&T projects and initiatives

through the STCU so that recipient governments will take advantage of the STCU and become more equal partnerswith the donor Parties in the STCU.

o Work with the science, industry, economic, and educational ministries, and academies to identify areas of national S&T priority where governmental funds should be committed.

o Work with those governmental agencies to design groups of STCU projects for project competitions toaddress those national priority areas to be financed by a combination of donor Party funding, recipientgovernment funding, and possibly other funding sources.



Google's (GOOG) Mission Statement

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible

and useful.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm

room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely

recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually

returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.

When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be

able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news

headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search more thanone billion images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than

845 million posts dating back to 1981.

We also provide ways to access all this information without making a special trip to the

Google homepage. The Google Toolbar enables you to conduct a Google search from

anywhere on the web, while the Google Deskbar (beta) puts a Google search box in the

Windows taskbar so you can search from any application you're using, without opening a

browser. And for those times when you're away from your PC altogether, Google can be

used from a number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones.

Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's best known brands almost

entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users. As a business, Google generates

revenue by providing advertisers with the opportunity to deliver measurable, cost-

effective online advertising that is relevant to the information displayed on any given

page. This makes the advertising useful to you as well as to the advertiser placing it. We

believe you should know when someone has paid to put a message in front of you, so we

always distinguish ads from the search results or other content on a page. We don't sellplacement in the search results themselves, or allow people to pay for a higher ranking

there.

Thousands of advertisers use our Google AdWords program to promote their products and

services on the web with targeted advertising, and we believe AdWords is the largest

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