Journal of Business Strategy articles from July 2005

Journal of Business Strategy archives from July 2005

Editor's note.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... [I]NSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, have made a splash in the business press with their recent book, landing on the Wall Street Journal's "Top 10 business bestseller list" only one month after...

Either/or.(Alternative strategies)
July 1, 2005... One of the most intractable problems in business strategy, and business generally, is the fact that here are two basic types of people in the world and within businesses: left-brain people who are logical, mathematical, and precise, and...

Corporate governance reforms: profiling at its worst.(Corporate governance)
July 1, 2005... Profiling by individuals or government agencies is, at its essence, a reliance on generalizations. People may, for example, suggest that certain groups (such as women or Asians or persons of color) tend to react in a predictable way in certain...

Finding new paths to growth by managing brand portfolios well.(The growth agenda)
July 1, 2005... Which of your product brands are best positioned for growth? Can you get more out of the strongest brands in new market segments and in other regions? In this column, the fourth in our ongoing series on growth programs, we look at how...

A short, practical guide to implementing strategy.(Suit the action to the word, the word to the action )
July 1, 2005... Suit the action to the word, the word to the action (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2). For all the energy and resources invested in the pursuit of the perfect strategy, it's surprising to consider how little effort is directed...

Value innovation: a leap into the blue ocean.
July 1, 2005... [C]orporate strategy is heavily influenced by its military roots. The very language of strategy is imbued with military references--chief executive "officers" in "headquarters", "troops" on the "front lines." Described this way, strategy is...

Restoring trust in American business: the struggle to change perception.
July 1, 2005... [T]he challenges that face businesses in the contemporary global environment are wide ranging. For example the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA, founded in 1754), offers five major areas that...

Value-changing behavior: getting the habit.
July 1, 2005... Knowing what makes your company valuable is important, but it's not enough. Getting from knowing to doing requires real change. This article highlights eight behaviors that have helped companies bridge the "knowing-doing" gap and cultivate the...

Segment and destroy: the missing capabilities of knowledge management.
July 1, 2005... Successful knowledge management in a competitive business environment requires an organization to possess certain capabilities. In particular, the organization must be able to create, transfer, store, retrieve and apply knowledge....

Why old tools won't work in the "new" knowledge economy.
July 1, 2005... Introduction Firms in the knowledge economy are significant drivers of economic growth, both for the clients they help and for themselves as witnessed by the fact that their revenues have increased tenfold in the past twenty years. Despite...

Consilio Manuque.(Clean Business Cuisine )(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... With this issue of Journal of Business Strategy we continue serializing one of the more amusing business books of recent times, even though it is about ancient times. Our thanks to authors Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris for providing this...