Journal of Business Strategy articles from September 1994

Journal of Business Strategy archives from September 1994

Postcards from the edge. (electronic communications and international business revolution)
September 1, 1994... New age technology is obliterating geography. By redistributing economic power around the world, it is creating a footloose economy that permits firms to locate in a variety of nontraditional venues. As a result, the tiniest burg today can...

The case of the sales-driven company. (strategic implementation)
September 1, 1994... CEOs and other strategists don't have to be frustrated in their efforts to renew their companies through strategic change. But they do need to pay as close attention to strategy implementation as they do to strategy formation. Take the...

Matching internal operations to industry demands.
September 1, 1994... Why do we expect a bank to have ATM machines? And why aren't we surprised when we learn that a government agency is finding it difficult to use its new document management system? These expectations are based on our intuitive understanding...

This old office. (office layout)(includes related articles) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1994... VERIFONE, THE REDWOOD CITY, California-based company that sells the credit-card authorization machines retailers use, boasts a CEO who works out of his home in Seattle, a CIO who works from his New Mexico ranch, and a salesforce that works...

100 strategists to watch. (top corporate strategists)(includes related articles)
September 1, 1994... NORMAN AUGUSTINE MADE THE FRONT PAGE THE DAY THE MARTIN Marietta/Lockheed merger was announced. Trip Hawkins often finds his name in Wired, the hot book for citizens of cyberspace. Stephen Chao may have turned some heads the day Rupert Murdoch...

Latin America heats up. (business prospects in Latin America)(includes related articles)
September 1, 1994... LATIN AMERICA. SAY THAT TO SOME PEOPLE AND THE RESPONSE is: It's a dirt-poor subcontinent south of Mexico, home to stratospheric inflation, political instability, and a phenomenally inequitable distribution of consumer wealth. That view is an...

Cha-cha-changing. (Latin American businesses)
September 1, 1994... DESPITE POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY, INFLATION, AND SOCIAL PROBlems, Latin America's economy is expected, to grow from 3-7% this year. Brazil's economy alone grew 5% last year despite a political crisis that included the impeachment of its president....