Journal of Business Strategy articles from November 1993

Journal of Business Strategy archives from November 1993

Broadcast views. (CBS/Broadcast Group President Howard Stringer speech) (Commentary) (Transcript)
November 1, 1993... From an address by Howard Stringer, CBS/Broadcast group president to a CBS affiliates' meeting, summer 1993. Four years ago, when I first addressed all of you, we faced together the daunting challenge of 30 or 50 competing channels. Today, we...

Are lawyers just overhead? (Legal Strategy)
November 1, 1993... The most important lesson I ever learned with respect to my usual professional role--that of a corporation's litigation counsel--came several years ago. After the favorable conclusion of a particularly difficult and longstanding piece of...

Value pricing goes global. (Pricing)
November 1, 1993... Thorstein Veblen would certainly be stunned that less than 100 years after he coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" there's been a sudden and conspicuous, global-wide drop in consumer purchases. Veblen (1857-1929), a social and...

The business of America is jobs. (includes related articles) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1993... FAR FROM BOUNTY, CORPORATE AMERICA THESE LAST FEW YEARS HAS created an employment Armageddon, a nuclear death zone of disenfranchised workers. Between 1987 and 1991, more than 85% of the Fortune 1000 companies downsized, leaving millions out of...

Cast against type. (transformation of Atex Inc. Atex Publishing Systems) (Core Competencies)
November 1, 1993... WHEN THE CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES POPPED LAST JANUARY AS A BRITISH and Dutch investor group bought Atex Publishing Systems Corp. from the Eastman Kodak Co., the new owners weren't the only ones dancing in celebration. Kodak executives were thrilled to...

Apple looks to its core. (more focus on desktop publishing market) (Core Competencies)
November 1, 1993... When Michael Spindler, the new president of Apple Computer, stepped up to the podium at the Seybold Conference in San Francisco in October, he delivered some puzzling news. He said that Apple had reevaluated its theories about desktop...

Games strategists play. (Tools)
November 1, 1993... NEW YORK. LUNCHTIME. YOU'RE OUT FOR A STROLL. LOOKING FOR some diversion. Something to take your mind off work--or, really, to help you get focused on that strategic problem that's been bedeviling you all morning. Wait. What's this? Right...

A cure for cancer. ('The Strategy Game') (Tools)
November 1, 1993... Craig Hickrnan has a Harvard MBA, 17 years of experience as a business strategist and consultant, and a best-selling book on business to his credit. But he got what may be his best idea from watching his eight year-old son read a book. "He was...

It's totally radical. (includes related article) (Reengineering)
November 1, 1993... If reengineering's such a cure-all, why does it fail more often than not? The answer, say its adherents, lies in how seriously you take its mandate. IF IT DOESN'T WORK, THROW IT out and start over. Reengineering taps into America's business...

Revenge of the nerds. (interview with University of Chicago professor Richard Greene) (Reengineering) (Interview)
November 1, 1993... Even as corporations around the country rush to reengineer, there are critics of the trend willing to point out that the emperor has no clothes. One such dissenter is Richard Greene, a professor at the University of Chicago who lectures and...

United we stand. (addressing the organization as an integrated whole) (Reengineering)
November 1, 1993... A company divided misses opportunities, loses profits, and defeats its own best efforts. But seen, analyzed, and fixed as a finely tuned, integrated system, a company can thrive. AN ELECTRONICS COMPANY that produced instruments found itself...

Setting a course for radical change. (impact of reengineering efforts) (Reengineering)
November 1, 1993... Reenginnering promises to overhaul your organization from bow to stern--even if you have to scrap the vessel to do it. Here's how you can keep your business afloat--and head off a mutiny--while radically revising the individual processes that...

The razor's edge. (process reengineering at GTE Telephone Operations Inc.) (Case Study: Reengineering)
November 1, 1993... IT WASN'T SOMEONE'S IDEA OF A PRANK WHEN GTE GAVE THE SENIOR executives of its Telephone Operations new shaving kits a few years back. These were no chintzy Christmas gifts from a company that could afford to be more lavish; they were new,...

Road warriors. (race car driving) (Out-of-Pocket: Strategic Planning for Your Life)
November 1, 1993... Michael Culver leverages his lust for increased competition and high-speed technology by slipping into the tight cockpit of a Formula Ford. This unique diversion requires intense concentration, according to Culver, managing director of First...