Journal of Business Strategy articles from September 1993

Journal of Business Strategy archives from September 1993

Sending out an SOS. (the telegraph's role in launching the communications revolution) (Clippings)
September 1, 1993... From "What Hath God Wrought," by Maury Klein, in the Spring 1993 issue Of Invention & Technology, published in New York. Reprinted with permission. If there's a cliche that hounds our lives unmercifully, it is that we live in the Information...

The orderless economy. (political disorder threatens international economic integration) (Global Policy)
September 1, 1993... What ever happened to the borderless economy? That notion, advanced a few years ago by the Japanese strategist Kenichi Ohmae, suggested that space-age technology would integrate productive factors around the world, rendering national boundaries...

Plagiarism-driven business strategy. (Research and Development)
September 1, 1993... Caution: Don't denigrate the derivative. So-called plagiarism, and other activities that go under various rubrics--such as cloning, reverse engineering, emulating, creatively enhancing, and upgrading--are a fundamental fact of business and...

Time to do or die. (strategic planning in the 1990s) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1993... The '90s aren't a bad dream. And they're not the '70s redux, with a go-go-decade waiting around the corner. Survival will take pacing--and planning. The alternative's too ghastly to consider. IF HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, THEN IT MIGHT BE...

Do you know me? (corporate strategists to watch) (Strategists)
September 1, 1993... CORPORATE STRATEGISTS ARE NOT CELEBRITIES. They're rarely household names. But, increasingly, it's their work that is shaping America's corporations--allowing them to compete in a decade that's turning out to be far more challenging, stressful,...

Raise your hand if you're sure business strategy is being taught in American business schools. (Education)
September 1, 1993... REBECCA HENDERSON, A MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF Technology professor, is spacing back and forth in the front of the classroom. She is explaining to 60 MBA students in a modern-tiered classroom how one successful corporation maintains a...

At Witt's end (University of Texas Graduate School of Business Dean Robert E. Witt)
September 1, 1993... Robert E. Witt, dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, probably never thought he would be so intimately involved with benchmarking, reengineering, and customer retention--topics his MBA students study...

High noon for the rising sun. (corporate strategic planning in Japan) (Japan: The State of Strategy)
September 1, 1993... Hidden liabilities, now coming to light, are putting a different spin on Japan's reputation as an arrogant competitor and forcing a painful structural transformation. No one today needs any reminder of Japan's formidable economic power or the...

Japan: model, myth, or mistake. (Japanese management)(includes related article) (Japan: The State of Strategy)
September 1, 1993... The world's second largest economy has been through a series of monster quakes lately. its real estate market has collapsed. Its prime minister has been unseated and its main political party ousted. Its business community has been rocked by a...

Rising to the occasion. (doing business in Japan)(includes related articles) (Japan: The State of Strategy)
September 1, 1993... "JAPANESE MARKETS ARE extremely closed in invisible ways," Japan's new trade minister, Hiroshi Kumagai, recently admitted to The Wall Street Journal. You can't get a more high-profile confession than Kumagai's. This candor should be taken as...

Windows of opportunity. (areas of opportunities for foreign companies operating in Japan) (Japan: The State of Strategy)
September 1, 1993... Of course, the best marketing in the world won't help if you don't have the right product. With the help of several experts, we identified some product groups that are embraced particularly warmly by the Japanese. The successful niches tend to...

Deming's luster dims at Florida Power & Light. (W.E. Deming's quality management philosophy) (Japan: The State of Strategy)
September 1, 1993... IT READS LIKE A BAD JOKE: HOW MANY STEPS DOES IT TAKE TO MOVE A water cooler? If you worked at Florida Power & Light three years ago, your answer would have been: It takes seven separate steps. Sound ludicrous? Maybe, but that's exactly how a...

Brain gain. (sports science and business strategy) (Out-of-Pocket)
September 1, 1993... By the halfway All-Star break in 1991, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz was badly slumping at 2-1 1. Then sports psychologist Jack Llewellyn got hold of him, and Smoltz exploded to 12-2 in the second half of the season. It's not surprising...

Japan: behold the sun. (opinions on Japanese management) (The Last Word)
September 1, 1993... Japan: The land, the myth, the legend. Hondas. Karoke bars. Kimonos. Ancestor worship. Total quality management. Golf. Kabuki. Sushi. What's the real story? What's underneath the lacquer? What's just behind the screen? We asked various...