Business Quarterly articles from March 1994

Business Quarterly archives from March 1994

The way I see it - mission statements galore.
March 22, 1994... Every business has one. But how meaningful are mission statements? THEY ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE THESE DAYS; THERE IS JUST NO GETTING AWAY FROM THEM IT MUST BE PART OF SOME OBSCURE RITE OF YUPPIE PASSAGE, AN EXPRESSION OF PRIMITIVE YEARNING FOR A...

Employment drug testing. (response to Robert Solomon and Sydney Usprich, Business Quarterly, Winter 1993) (Dialogue)
March 22, 1994... In our Winter 1993 issue we published an article on employment drug testing by Robert Solomon and Sydney Usprich, two prominent lawyers. We struck a nerve. Companies in Canada, it appears, are quite concerned about drugs in the workplace, but are...

Confessions of an entrepreneur. (Canada's live entertainment industry) (Industry Overview)
March 22, 1994... The company that produces The Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Kiss of the Spider Woman sees strong growth for live theatre IN DECEMBER 1989, my partner Garth Drabinsky and I personally invested...

Turnaround at Kodak Park. (Eastman Kodak Co.)
March 22, 1994... IN THE LATE 1980s, Eastman Kodak got into serious difficulty -- particularly in its black and white film division, Team Zebra was formed and empowered employee turned it around. UNTIL THE LATE 1980s, the Eastman Kodak Company enjoyed nearly...

Continuous improvement in manufacturing.
March 22, 1994... Continuous improvement is possible, but only when people's jobs are enriched with tasks that foster process enhancement ORGANIZATIONS MUST CONTINUOUSLY improve the cost, quality and timeliness of their output if they are to remain competitive....

Global business - North American business integration.
March 22, 1994... Once NAFTA appeared to be imminent, U.S. firms began integrating their Canadian operations into North American or global enterprises, without waiting for NAFTA MAJOR U.S. CORPORATIONS WERE MOVING TO CREATE NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS STRATEGIE AND...

A brighter outlook for managers. (Viewpoint)
March 22, 1994... Companies have been through gut-wrenching times, but the worst is over. The future looks bright -- different, but bright FOR MANY MANAGERS, THE 1990S SO FAR HAVE BEEN ONE CONTINUAL PIECE OF BAD NEWS AFTER ANOTHER. THE BUSINESS MEDIA HAVE...

Be prepared for the ride of your life. (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... CANADA IS ADVANCING RAPIDLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. FORWARD-THINKING MANAGERS ARE BEGINNING TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Let me dispel some misconceptions about the information superhighway. It is...

Navigating the information highway. (includes related articles) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY PAVES THE WAY FOR ACCESS TO UNLIMITED STORES OF KNOWLEDGE. PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS, TUCKED INSIDE A POCKET OR BRIEFCASE, PROVIDE REMOTE ACCESS TO THIS HIGHWAY -- ANYTIME, ANYWHERE In 1945, Dr. Vannevar Bush,...

Making information superhighways work. (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... CANADA IS IN THE FOREFRONT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY. WE SHOULD SEE TREMENDOUS BENEFITS TO BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS Imagine you are a clothing retailer looking to expand, and you discover that ne technology allows you to...

When worlds collide. (corporate use of flexible client/server systems)(includes related article) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... THE COMPUTER WORLD IS TURBULENT, WITH NEW PRODUCTS LAUNCHED ALMOST DAILY. CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEMS ARE THE LATEST WAY OF PROVIDING INFORMATION TO EMPLOYEES WHEN THEY NEED IT In the race to provide the most effective corporate information system,...

CANARIE: toward Canada's information highway. (Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS ARE ADVANCING RAPIDLY. COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE ELECTRONICALLY AS EARLY AS THEY CAN BY TELEPHONE Why did Bell Atlantic and America's largest television cable company,...

Given the choice. (public use of information technology) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING RAPIDLY AND BRINGING WITH IT ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO IMPROVE OUR LIVES. BUT WE HAVE TO CONTROL BOTH TECHNOLOGY AND OURSELVES There is a marvellous scene from the movie Hook in which a cellular phone is th chief...

Designing information technology for people. (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... TECHNOLOGY IS SURGING AHEAD, LINKING COMPUTERS, CABLES AND TELEPHONES. THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY WILL HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ANY PROGRESS "Think globally, act locally." The phrase belongs to the Green Movement,...

Delivering the news. (application of information innovations in newspaper publishing) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... NEWSPAPERS WILL NOT LIKELY DISAPPEAR, BUT IN THE FUTURE THE CONSUMER WILL HAVE AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF OTHER CHOICES IN ACCESSING INFORMATION Much of today's talk about the information highway revolves around gigabits and fibre optics. That is...

Imagine the possibilities. (impact of technological innovations) (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE OPENING ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO LEAD FULLER, RICHER LIVES. BUSINESSES CAN BENEFIT TOO The information highway promises much. Will it deliver? Will the goods be worth the price? That depends not on...

Reengineering, outsourcing and all that. (The Information Highway)
March 22, 1994... TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -- PARTICULARLY CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEMS--COMPANIES ARE REDESIGNING ENTIRE BUSINESS PROCESSES. IT IS CALLED REENGINEERING In the first years of the 20th century, electrical power promised to...

Sharing work via computers. (The Information Highway )
March 22, 1994... THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY RELIES ON OUR ABILITY TO TRANSFER WORK BEING DONE BY ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER. CLIENT/SERVER NETWORKS ARE THE KEY Around the world today, there is much discussion about a concept known as the information superhighway -- an...