Journal of Business Strategy articles from May 1993

Journal of Business Strategy archives from May 1993

Iconic relief. (iconic visioning for corporate planning)
May 1, 1993... When strategic planners at 3M-canada get together for a planning session, a staff artist joins them. When executives at Northern Telecom sit down to a strategic session, the notetakers are busy doodling. What's going on here? It's...

Scientific and technical intelligence: the key to R&D. (includes related article)
May 1, 1993... Consider this scenario: A company's vice president for R&D had just given an exciting talk on what the firm believed would be the next major technological innovation in its business--one that would establish the company as the industry's...

How to improve business relationships.
May 1, 1993... We need to rethink the government regulations and managerial assumptions that influence our largest businesses. During the Reagan-Bush years, undiluted free market economics brought disaster. An economic boom based on a consumer-led borrowing...

A guide to global pricing. (includes related articles)
May 1, 1993... Last year was a busy year for pricers. American Airlines made a much-publicized bid to simplify the industry's price structure. Procter & Gamble announced that it would drastically simplify its U. S. pricing system and eliminate much of the...

Managing radical change. (includes related article) (Cover Story)
May 1, 1993... IF BUSINESS STRUCTURE WERE THE PRIMARY PROBLEM FACING AMERIcan business today, then all the restructuring and reorganizing we've witnessed over the last several years would have put America's corporations back on solid ground. Companies like...

2020 foresight. (management in the year 2020)
May 1, 1993... Caught up in reengineering? Outfoxed by out-sourcing? Deadened by dealing with technological changes, plateauing, and downsizing? Then cast your sights beyond today's crises and look a couple of decades down, the road to a time when the...

Only the strong survive. (effective brand management)
May 1, 1993... Competition, consolidation, and couponing have made consumers savvier and brand loyalty shakier. As a result, nurturing the all-important brand demands a new level of creativity and an increased attention to strategy. Often it means a closer...

China on the move.
May 1, 1993... China's entry into the economic big leagues is full of obstacles. but with one-fifth of the world's population now champing at capitalism's bit, the opportunities for strategic-minded business are boundless. "LET CHINA SLEEP," NAPOLEON ONCE...

Lessons from the assembly line. (applying product development strategies) (Productivity in the '90s)
May 1, 1993... OVER THE PAST DECADE, U.S. companies have concentrated on the area where they were furthest behind and the one most susceptible to improvement: the manufacturing arena. Gradually, American companies have learrned the lessons of total quality...

Should you outsource product development? (Productivity in the '90s)
May 1, 1993... Clearly, there are some situations in which companies must "make" all parts of their products. One of these is when they are pioneering something brand new. But as industries develop and mature, they attract suppliers as whales-collect...

Up and running. (advantages of functional programming) (Productivity in the '90s)
May 1, 1993... CHRYSLER CORP. KNEW IT HAD to change the way it developed its cars--and change it radically. Japanese companies were launching new models every three years. To stay competitive, Chrysler needed to drastically reduce the development time for its...

The outsourcing source book. (the pros and cons of outsourcing) (Productivity in the '90s)
May 1, 1993... NO LITANY OF BUSINESS buzzwords is complete these days without an entry for "outsourcing." Not that outsourcing, as a concept, is particularly new. Companies have hired outside providers to help them with payroll, accounting, cafeteria...

The Allen-Bradley story. (Allen-Bradley Company Inc's development of a new company vision) (Productivity in the '90s)
May 1, 1993... IN THE MID-1980s, ALLEN-BRADLEY SAW THAT THE REQUIREMENTS FOR world-class competitiveness in manufacturing were changing. The company's Milwaukee headquarters was manufacturing such basic electro-mechanical products as push buttons, starters,...

Trading up. (executives who trade their positions for sports-related jobs)
May 1, 1993... Craig Ahlstrom has never met Peter Magowan. But he wants his job. It's hard to blame him. Magowan succeeded his father as CEO of Safeway in 1980 and earned $737,000 a year as well as an annual bonus to run more than 1,00,000 grocery...