Journal of Business Strategy articles from September 2000

Journal of Business Strategy archives from September 2000

e-Gads!(information technology usage)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Last year, the thinking seemed to be that there was a little breathing room before companies absolutely had to embrace all things "e." You could launch a Web site now, or you could spend a little more time planning and then launch a site with...

Caught in the 'Net.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... The Internet has become an obsession that's affecting the global economy, businesses of all sizes, and lifestyles. Consider these statistics. * According to a study by the Center for Research on Electronic Commerce at the University of...

Deciding Factors.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A survey by management consulting firm Kepner-Tregoe found that most managers and workers believe that the number of decisions they're called on to make each day has increased in the last three years. At the same time, they feel that the amount...

Politics as Usual.(office politics survey)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Is office politics waxing or waning? Depends on whom you ask. In response to a survey by OfficeTeam, 36% of employees believed office politics had increased greatly compared to five years ago, and 34% believed it had increased somewhat....

Turn, Turn, Turn.(employee earnings and stock prices survey)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... A Sibson & Company study found that employee turnover depresses earnings and stock prices by an average of 38% in specialty retail, call center services, high tech, and fast food. Sibson estimates that turnover costs companies in these...

In the Executive Suite.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Searches for CEOs were up 47% between second quarter 1999 and second quarter 2000, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The association also found that COO searches were up 62%; CIO/Knowledge Officer searches rose 21%...

Leveling the Playing Field.(healthcare benefits)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... More and more small businesses are offering healthcare benefits, a study by Dun & Bradstreet found. More than half (54%) of all U.S. small businesses now offer healthcare benefits, up from 40% a year ago. D&B also found that more small...

Eureka?(cost and standard of living survey)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Silicon Valley is now the 13th most expensive market in the world for prime office space. Data gathered by GB Richard Ellis, a real estate services company, show that average occupancy costs for Silicon Valley are $57, just $1.20 less than 12th...

Quel Surprise!(initial public offering stocks analysis)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A study of Wall Street analysts by Roni Michaely and Kent Womack of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that long-run performance of IPO stocks recommended by analysts whose investment banks were the lead...

Skunk-gate.(journalists language error)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... We recently got a four-page letter from a Los Angeles law firm, notifying us of Lockheed Martin's service mark registry of the term "skunk works." The missive ended on the ominous note: "Lockheed Martin cannot permit its valuable mark to become...

Monkey Business.(Brief Article)(Review)
September 1, 2000... From Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet, by Geoffrey A. Moore, HarperBusiness, New York, 2000. The litmus test for evaluating a true outsourcing offer as opposed to a reengineering project...

Disciplined Opportunism.(AES planning strategy)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... From Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, by Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2000. AES, without a centralized corporate strategic planning...

Power Mongers.(Amazon.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... From Amazon.com: Get Big Fast, by Robert Spector, HarperBusiness, New York, 2000. By the time the ranks of Amazon.com employees had swelled to five people... the lone circuit breaker in the converted garage wasn't up to the task of...

The Seven Laws of E-Commerce Strategy.
September 1, 2000... It won't be news to anyone reading this that the days of leisurely and methodical strategic planning are over. Look at the top 100 companies today compared to the top companies just a year ago. Look at how fast a company can rocket to the top,...

There's More to E-Business Than Point and Click.(planning information)
September 1, 2000... There's no question that e-business offers incredible opportunities. Companies that create an effective Web presence can streamline operations, shorten response time to customer requests, gather more market data, increase their geographic...

STRATEGISTS TO WATCH.
September 1, 2000... Take a look at eight people behind the eight ball. AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR JOB WAS CHALLENGING? TAKE A LOOK at what the people on the following pages face. The criteria we used in selecting these strategists to watch is simple: We nominated...

NAPSTER: A BUSINESS IN SEARCH OF A VIABLE MODEL.(online downloading of music at no cost)
September 1, 2000... Napster is making a lot of headlines because it is disrupting the recording industry. Less well reported is the fact that the company has no real business model. THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN DREAM FOR THE MILlennium: Imagine you launch an...

THE SOFTWARE TO SECURE YOUR STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE.(electronic commerce)
September 1, 2000... Strategic planning is as important as ever, and now it must he done faster than ever before. There are software programs that can help. The fortunes of all successful companies, especially those that survive over the decades, depend in...

BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL.(strategies for business success)(Interview)
September 1, 2000... Add to the classic factors of production, land, labor, and capital, a new factor--funkiness. "Business as usual" simply isn't good enough any more. Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom, professors at the Stockholm School of Economics and...

E -Xtravaganza.(books on electronic commerce)(Column)
September 1, 2000... I don't know about your computer, but mine takes the initiative to capitalize letters as it deems appropriate, like at the beginning of a sentence or after a period. This is pretty darned annoying when you're typing dozens of e-thises and...

Challenge.(facing challenges)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Seems like every business article published today contains the word "challenge." That's one of those charged concepts. A challenge could be something fun--"I'll beat you at checkers!"--or something frightening--"Draw, you yellow-belly!" ...