Journal of Business Strategy articles from May 2002

Journal of Business Strategy archives from May 2002

On golden geese. (Publisher's Note).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Products, like geese, have distinct life cycles. The successful ones are hatched amid raucous squawking by their parent companies, have very short but active youths, and quickly settle into maturity, day after day supplying sustenance to the...

Weaving strong Webs. (Short Takes).(survey on business involvement in electronic commerce)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... More and more major companies are using the Web to push their brands, but many have faced serious problems in organizing their e-business efforts, according to The Conference Board. The survey of 60 leading U.S. companies found that efforts...

Just the facts. (Short Takes).(employment facts)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Health Insurance. The share of employees whose health insurance premiums are wholly paid by employers has declined sharply since 1980. A study conducted by Atlanta-based Coalition of America found that of full-time workers in medium and large...

Credit where credit is due. (Clippings: Management).(First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals, by Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister, Free Press, New York, 2002. What is missing from many people's work lives is any kind of personal appreciation or recognition. This...

Loose upper lip. (Clippings: Leadership).(Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts, by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002. Steely stoicism is a hallmark of military leaders and...

The new economy. (Clippings: Marketing).(Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth, and Renewal)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth, and Renewal, by Philip Kotler, Dipak C. Jam, and Suvit Maesincee, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2002. New business strategies call for new marketing strategies and...

Dust off that gorilla suit. (Clippings: Venture Capital).(capitalizing on dip in new business development activity)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From "How to Make a Lot of Money" by Andy Sernovitz, in Leading Authorities on Business: Winning Strategies from the Greatest Minds in Business Today, edited by Marshall Goldsmith and James Belasco, Leading Authorities Press, Washington, DC,...

Rehearsal's on. (Clippings: Crisis Control).(Management Lessons from the E.R.: Prescriptions for Success in Your Business)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From Management Lessons from the E.R.: Prescriptions for Success in Your Business, by Paul S. Auerbach, The Free Press, New York, 2002. Knowledge begins with a thorough understanding acquired ahead of time of the most likely situations you...

The bad news and the bad news. (Clippings: Corporate Espionage).(CIA, Inc.: Espionage and the Craft of Business Intelligence)(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... From CIA, Inc.: Espionage and the Craft of Business Intelligence, by F.W. Rustmann, Jr., Brasseys, Inc., Dulles, VA, 2002. Although the FBI is reportedly investigating more than 800 separate cases under the EEA [Economic Espionage Act of...

Compensating for the Zero Sweet Spot. (Real-Time Strategy).(adopting new technology)
May 1, 2002... In recent years, a great number of CEOs have discovered that their company's overall strategy and its information technology strategy are becoming more and more synchronous. For most of today's successful companies, everything from supply chain...

The future of online advertising. (Advertising).
May 1, 2002... In many ways, 2001 marked the end of the beginning for the commercial Web, just as it celebrated its seventh birthday last fall with the anniversary of the first banner ad, which appeared on Hot Wired in 1994. As the industry enters into its...

Rehearsing your high wireless act. (Mobile Computing).
May 1, 2002... Wireless. It's being touted as the next big wave, and, given the buzz, it's a tsunami. According to the latest reports, mobile devices are set to invade corporate infrastructure the same way the PC did 20 years ago. Not only that, but mobile...

Incubating innovation: Companies must leverage the full spectrum of innovation, from the incremental to the revolutionary. (Special Focus).
May 1, 2002... Very few companies manage to produce a continuously flowing pipeline of innovations ranging from the incremental to the revolutionary. This is not surprising. The fact is, few companies can focus systematically and simultaneously on both the...

Strategies for market disruptions: Developing the next new product or service yourself may not be the right strategy. (Special Focus).
May 1, 2002... Imagine for a moment that you are the CEO of a mature, worldwide producer of high-tech products or services. You have developed a clear vision of the future for the market in which you operate, and it's not pretty. There is a reasonable...

Incubators: There and back; Good ideas don't always translate into profits, as the experience of for-profit incubators shows. (Special Focus).
May 1, 2002... In the 1990s, business incubators became the answer to entrepreneurs' and investors' most fervent prayers. With the rise of the Internet and proliferation of dot-coms, time-to-market had become the key issue. One way investors could enable...

Helping Knowledge Management be all it can be. (Knowledge Management).
May 1, 2002... Businesses have had a rough time marshalling what they know into systems that help cut costs and boost profits--and they've had only themselves to blame. But new lessons from the U.S. Army are showing that KM can be highly effective. IF...

Putting success into your succession planning. (HR Strategies).
May 1, 2002... Succession planning is more than knowing who will take the reins if the corporate jet crashes tomorrow. It's about growing your own talent to ensure your company's future over the long term. OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS, MORE THAN 61 MILLION...

Realizing the promise of partnerships: Many partnerships end badly. It doesn't have to be that way. (Strategic Alliances).
May 1, 2002... "WE DON'T WANT TO PARTNER WITH YOU," ANNOUNCES A current B2B advertisement. A startling claim at a time when "partnerships" seem to have supplanted traditional supplier, vendor, and even competitor relationships. Is this nascent backlash...

In search of the ultimate catalyst. (Stack Attack).(The GE Work-Out)(New Ideas About New Ideas)(X-Engineering the Corporation)(Marketing Moves)
May 1, 2002... Both the simple paramecium slogging through the swamp and the business executive struggling through the economic doldrums of 2002 are on their own. There's no guarantee that change or innovation or both will advance an existence or company,...

Knowledge. (The Last Word).
May 1, 2002... A little knowledge may or may not be a dangerous thing; complete ignorance can be fatal. Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare The only good is knowledge and the only...