Journal of Business Strategy articles from January 1996

Journal of Business Strategy archives from January 1996

Taking stock of the January Effect. (Signals)
January 1, 1996... Stock market investment strategies have one ultimate goal - to buy low and sell high. If only it were that easy. The multitude of options available to investment strategists and portfolio managers today, coupled with the myriad of vehicles in...

Room service. (hotel service and management companies Renaissance Hotels International and Utell International)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1996... Renaissance Hotels and Utell International have developed custom strategies with a common purpose: getting the guests. Turn the Southwest corner of 51st St. and Seventh Avenue in New York and you're at the doorstep of the Michelangelo. No...

Cyber-strategy. (strategic use of information technology)(includes related article on corporate use of Internet)(Special Focus: Information Technology)
January 1, 1996... For strategists, information technology is about building bridges: between business sectors, across continents. A few months ago, Alcoa announced the largest information technology project in its history, an overhaul of its basic computer...

Alcoa builds a superhighway. (Aluminum Company of America)(Special Focus: Information Technology)
January 1, 1996... At Alcoa, the maxim "Think globally, act locally" is not just a slogan. It's a blueprint for the company's organizational structure. "We do not have a single business. We have a whole array of businesses, with very different customers and very...

A tale of three web sites. (World Wide Web sites of Chevron Corp., Virtual Vineyards and Amnesty International)(Special Focus: Information Technology)
January 1, 1996... Spinning a strategy? Marketing, image, and awareness all have a place on the Web. It is the best of times and the worst of times for the World Wide Web. Exponential figures are touted routinely for the growth in the number of users, the...

Taking technology in hand. (personal digital assistant technology)(Special Focus: Information Technology)
January 1, 1996... Personal digital assistants are making a comeback, thanks to industrial innovation. On the first of the month, like clockwork, Miriam Wigdor arrives in the kitchen of a Taco Bell outlet in Chicago. She's on a mission - and it's not stuffing...

The 1996 business strategist's software directory.(Directory)
January 1, 1996... Every year, software developers release more tools that can make the business executive's life easier. Here's our third annual listing. The streamroller of technology moves on. Okay, so the 1950s predictions of robots walking the streets have...

Pass the 10Q, partner. (employees as business partners)(Workplace)
January 1, 1996... Employees who are part of the corporate information loop will bring more to the balance sheet, a new study finds, and CEOs are crafting cultures to plug them in. How much do they know and how do they know it? These are questions likely to be...