Journal of Business Strategy articles from March 2000

Journal of Business Strategy archives from March 2000

The Party Line.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Until very recently, I had a party line. It was an inexpensive service on a phone I didn't use often. Naturally, sometimes I'd pick up the phone only to hear someone's voice, which meant I couldn't place my call until my neighbor hung up....

Sea Change.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Do you want to get away from it all? Good luck. Even in the middle of the ocean, you can still stay connected to the rest of the world. Royal Caribbean Cruises recently announced that it was adding high-tech Internet cafes to its entire...

Just the Facts.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Measure to Manage. According to a study sponsored by management consultant A.T. Kearney, stock prices in 52% of companies that relied on formal strategic performance measurement systems outperformed competitors; 30% with such systems had...

World Growth Forecast, 2000.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... World Growth Forecast, 2000 GDP Growth Fastest Growing Countries 1 Mozambique 10.0% 2 Botswana 8.9% 3 Singapore 8.4% 4 Angola ...

Money Isn't Everything.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
March 1, 2000... Monetary compensation is no longer the greatest incentive for college students and recent graduates, according to the results of a survey by Jobtrak.com, an online job listing service. More than 3,000 college students and recent graduates...

Oh, Canada.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... If you were globe-trotting in 1988, your expense account would have taken the biggest hit in Tokyo, where a night's lodging and three meals would have set you back $352. According to Runzheimer International, the next most expensive cities in...

Technology = Productivity.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... From "Clusters and the New Economics of Competition," by Michael E. Porter, in World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy, Jeffrey E. Garten, Editor, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2000. In the new economics of competition,...

First Person Singular.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... From Megachange: How Today's Leading Companies Have Transformed Their Workforces, by William F. Joyce, Free Press, New York, 1999. The commander's intentions process required each commander to write down what he intended to do.... This...

The Asset-Lite Approach.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... From Meltdown: Asia's Boom, Bust, and Beyond, by Mark L. Clifford and Pete Engardio, Prentice-Hall Press, Paramus, N.J., 2000. The next wave of direct investment [in Asia] is likely to be more selective. As the world economy continues to...

Less Is More.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... From Bullseye! Hitting Your Strategic Targets Through High-Impact Measurement, by William A. Schiemann and John H. Lingle, Free Press, New York, 1999. The authors once worked with a troubled Midwest manufacturing company whose president...

Different Strokes.
March 1, 2000... Market-Driven Organization * All decisions Start with the customer and opportunities for advantage * Quality is defined by customers * The best ideas come from living with customers * Employees are customer advocates *...

The Real-Time Toolbox.
March 1, 2000... Recently, I was asked to be the technical editor for a book that purported to put in one volume all the knowledge gained from an MBA program. Since a typical MBA program requires two full years of study, this was an ambitious undertaking....

How to Loosen Organizational Boundaries.
March 1, 2000... Speed, flexibility, integration and innovation are becoming the new drivers of organizational success. Institutionalizing these new success factors requires not just new technology, but also a loosening of boundaries--between the levels of...

Changing the Game: CRM in the e-World.
March 1, 2000... Emerging technologies have enabled companies to collect, store, and analyze customer information in ways that have greatly improved their ability to attract and retain customers. Enterprises can practice effective customer relationship...

THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH, WEALTH, AND RISK.(Review)
March 1, 2000... In her 1998 review of Blur for JBS, Bristol Voss suggested: "You won't agree with everything in this book, but it will inspire your thinking." Now, Blur's authors, Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer, have written another book that may be...

Building A Clicks And Mortar World.
March 1, 2000... THE PROPOSED AMERICA ONLINE-TIME WARNER MERGER--AT $165 BILLION, the largest in U.S. history, so far--may create the biggest media giant the world has ever seen, but that's not the real story. Forget the fact that pundits see the merger as a...

ONLINE MARKETPLACES: A NEW STRATEGIC OPTION.
March 1, 2000... THE FIRST WAVE OF THE E-COMMERCE GOLD RUSH largely bypassed the business-to-business (B2B) market. While traditional and start-up consumer companies were slugging it out for bragging rights, most B2B companies, with a few notable exceptions,...

SUPPLY CHAIN INTERDICTION and CORPORATE WARFARE.
March 1, 2000... LATE IN 1998, A BRICKS-AND-MORTAR BOOKSTORE ANNOUNCED that it was buying its distributor. The news sent shock waves through the book industry, and, for the first time, Amazon.com felt truly threatened by its rival, Barnes & Noble. In...

HOW E-BUSINESS IS TRANSFORMING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT.
March 1, 2000... INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES are forcing managers to rethink and reshape their business strategies, their use of technology, and their relations with suppliers and customers. The convergence of new technologies, hypercompetitive...

THE PRACTICALITIES OF DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL E-BUSINESS STRATEGY.
March 1, 2000... IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY LAUNCHED YOUR E-BUSINESS, it is all too apparent that the time is now. Business is moving rapidly into the Internet age as surely as it moved into the information age and industrial age before that. According to...

The Elephant of Leadership.
March 1, 2000... Like the blind men describing the elephant, the authors in this month's Stack grapple with leadership. It may be that, in the end, leadership is impossible to define, analyze, or teach, but, at least, these authors sincerely describe the part...

Communication.
March 1, 2000... Human beings have extraordinarily sophisticated physiological and technological means of communication. Maybe that's why communication can be so difficult. How much should we say? To whom? When? Where? Even so, the ability to share ideas...