Business Horizons articles from January 1995

Business Horizons archives from January 1995

Long-range career planning during turbulent times. (career-planning model)
January 1, 1995... Change is our constant companion. Jobs undergo technical change, sometimes to the extent that current employees can no longer handle them. Entire organizations spring into being to deliver new products or penetrate previously untapped markets....

Coming to terms with the new corporate contract. (changing responsibilities for employees and employers)
January 1, 1995... "It used to be you had a contract," said a displaced senior vice president of one of the major broadcasting companies. "Now you're virtually working on a per diem." He and I were in a three-way conversation with another ousted executive from the...

Creating a system for continuous improvement. (improving an organization's decision-making process)
January 1, 1995... When people speak of continuous improvement, they are really talking about continuous change. To have continuous change, there has to be some factor that binds people together. There must be a common purpose, and each member must understand his...

Pericles of Athens - drawing from the essence of strategic leadership.
January 1, 1995... Most of those in the business of developing corporate strategy have at best only a vague understanding of the origins and history of their occupation. By contrast, those pursuing careers in fields such as law, economics, medicine, engineering,...

The difficulty in solving strategic problems: the experiences of three CIOs.(chief information officers)
January 1, 1995... The computer era has, among other things, stimulated a high level of interest in business problem solving. Such concepts as the management information system, decision support system, and executive information system all portray the electronic...

The ethics of business: improving or deteriorating?
January 1, 1995... "The only thing that corporations seem to be interested in is making money." (An American consumer, 1992 Gallup Survey) "There are a lot of people in top management who have created credos and other standards which... encourage their...

Nissan U.K.: a worker's paradox?
January 1, 1995... The major Japanese automobile companies have now established a successful beachhead in Europe, located in the United Kingdom. As they have in North America, these Japanese transplants are exemplifying high levels of technology transfer, combined...

Personnel problems in "carry the flag" missions in foreign assignments. (overseas business assignments)
January 1, 1995... In their Business Horizons article, "Preparing Yourself for an Overseas Assignment" (1994), Howard Tu and Sherry Sullivan discussed in some depth the preliminary steps an individual should take before going abroad on an assignment. In this...

TQM: what's in it for academics? (total quality management)
January 1, 1995... Big Business wants to hire university graduates who are literate in total quality management. Six mega-companies--American Express, Ford, IBM, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, and Xerox--said so in an open letter published in 1991 in the Harvard...

TQM: the experiences of ten small businesses. (total quality management)
January 1, 1995... Total quality management (TQM) has received considerable attention in many large corporations and government organizations. Many success stories have been described in magazine articles and at conferences. However, little has been written on how...

How important is physical collocation to product development success?
January 1, 1995... Researchers, consultants and corporate executives alike have long agreed: Collocation is one of the critical factors in the successful management of new product development. Tom Allen's 1977 seminal study of communication patterns in R&D labs...

Harry Levinson.(Profiles in Executive Education)
January 1, 1995... "My philosophy of life is reflected in my behavior... and includes a number of significant elements: deep concern about my family; support of humanitarian causes; appreciation of the value of continuous learning; helping other people grow and...

What America Does Right: Learning from Companies that Put People First.
January 1, 1995... Reviews of current books discussing subjects on the horizon of business activities, particularly those on controversial issues being encountered by both practitioners and teachers, will be considered for publication. Manuscript guidelines are...

The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success.
January 1, 1995... The reviewer, Thomas A. Hemphill, is a fiscal officer with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, New Jersey. Democracy, notes Russell Ackoff, is not a painless concept for nations to implement. Nor is democracy any...

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family.
January 1, 1995... The reviewer, Irving Katz, is a professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. The Warburg saga can be traced to 1559, when a German Jew known as simon of Cassel moved from Hesse to Warburg, a town in Westphalia. There he worked for...