Journal of Business Strategy articles from May 2001

Journal of Business Strategy archives from May 2001

Hard Times.(business and the economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... All that talk of letting go of Newtonian physics in favor of chaos theory suddenly seems silly. Today, gravity reigns--the financial markets are proving daily that "what goes up must come down." And then there was the ballyhoo about dot-coms...

e-Business Update.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Despite the NASDAQ's nosedive, e business remains a primary concern for companies of all types. And of special concern is the fact that retooling for e-commerce is taking longer than expected. Results of a recent survey by Business Intelligence...

Just the Facts.(United States economy)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Job Market. Fewer companies plan to add staff in the second quarter of this year than in like periods in the last three years, according to Manpower Inc. A poll of nearly 16,000 companies found that 28% were planning additional hiring, 8%...

Yearly Media Use by U.S. Households[*].(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Yearly Media Use by U.S. Households 1992 2000 2000 % Item Hours Hours MBytes Change TV 1,510 1,571 3,142,000 4 Radio 1,150 1,056 57,800 -8 Recorded...

The Business of Government.(Brouillard Communications survey asks which company could best run government)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Which company would you most trust to run the U.S. government? Which one would you least trust? Turns out Microsoft comes out the number one answer to both questions. In a Brouillard Communications survey of more than 1,000 Americans, four...

A Punch in the Nose.(General Electric Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... From the "Letter to Share Owners," GE 2000 Annual Report. One of GE's long-standing management tenets has been the belief that businesses must be, or become, number one or number two in their marketplaces. We managed by that tenet for...

Leadership.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Perils of Cock-eyed Optimism From the "Chairman's Letter," by Warren E. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway 2000 Annual Report. Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I think it is both deceptive and dangerous for CEOs to...

The Contrarian.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... From the "Letter to Investors," by Michael D. Capellas, Compaq 2000 Annual Report. Innovation is vital to our success because information technology is being transformed at an ever-increasing pace--and we want to help drive that...

Vertical Challenge.(excerpt from Cisco Systems 2000 Annual Report)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... From "To Our Shareholders," by John T. Chambers, John P. Morgridge, and Donald T. Valentine, Cisco Systems 2000 Annual Report. Successful companies in the 1980s achieved their leadership positions with a vertical business model and an...

Dot-com Fallout.(Starbucks Coffee Company)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Dot-com Fallout From "Letter to Shareholders," by Howard Schulz and Orin C. Smith, Starbucks Coffee Company 2000 Annual Report. Even in the best years we face challenges. In the fourth quarter we took a non-cash write-down of our...

2B or Not 2B.(business to business electronic commerce will remain vital to companies)
May 1, 2001... Shakespeare's famous line from the play Hamlet focuses our attention on one the most important strategic decisions for most firms today. It's almost as if Shakespeare knew of the dilemma faced by a company trying to decide whether to...

B2B Web Exchanges: Easier Hyped Than Done.(business to business Internet exchanges and the case of PressureSource)
May 1, 2001... Less than two years ago, businesses were being told every day they'd better jump on the Web exchange bandwagon fast or risk getting left behind in the B2B Goldrush. They heard this from the trade press and the mainstream press, from...

BRANDING IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
May 1, 2001... The Internet is changing all the rules of branding, except one--creating an emotional bond with buyers is still essential. THESE DAYS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE OLD DAYS, we're talking about 1997, which is roughly when the Internet started to...

Real Pay for Performance.
May 1, 2001... Implementing a pay plan that fairly rewards performance is hard work, but it's worth the effort. REAL PAY FOR PERFORMANCE IS THE BIGGEST trend coming down the tracks, and it's going to hit the workforce like a freight train. In today's...

STRATEGY INNOVATION TAKES IMAGINATION.(the case of Tyson Foods Inc)
May 1, 2001... Real strategy innovation comes from solving problems for customers in new ways. DEJECTED LEADERS OF BANKRUPT DOT-COM FIRMS ARE OFTEN quoted as saying, "we just couldn't seem to get our business model worked out, and we finally ran out of...

THE NEXT FRONTIER.(managing marketing campaigns)
May 1, 2001... Taking a page from just-in-time manufacturing, many companies have found a way to create better, faster, cheaper--and infinitely more effective--marketing campaigns. The theories, buzzwords, mantras, and missions that have streamlined...

THE PROFIT IS IN THE DETAILS.(strategic business assessment)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... A true strategic business assessment means looking beyond the obvious areas and drilling into the layers of detail that reveal opportunities other strategic methods might miss. WE'VE ALL HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "THE DEVIL IS IN THE details."...

SECRETS OF ONLINE SLEUTHING.(gaining competetive intelligence through the internet)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... The Internet makes the search for competitive intelligence a lot easier. Here's how to go about it. IS STRATEGY REALLY ABOUT THE "ART OF SURVIVING RAPID transition"? If you agree with Philip Evans' recent article in this journal, you may...

Business Success.(business quotations)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In looking over the 48 "Last Word" columns that precede this one, we discovered we had never once looked up the word "business." As you might imagine, once we did, we uncovered a mother lode. The quotes that follow reveal the "secrets" of...

After the e-Evolution.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Three of our Stack books unfortunately got caught in the time lag between being written and being published--in short, events overtook them. But not to worry. The worst that happens to them is they come across too idealistic about the Internet...