Business Strategy Review articles from March 1998

Business Strategy Review archives from March 1998

What does it mean to be market-driven?
March 22, 1998... Searching behind the slogans, and with a wealth of reference to real-life corporate experience, this article starts by outlining some of the traps which managers can fall into in their search for market orientation. It then identifies specific...

Entrepreneurship: Psion and Europe.
March 22, 1998... This article is drawn from the first of the 1998 Stockton Lectures which focus on the subject of entrepreneurship. Here, David Potter, the founder of Psion, uses his own experience to identify the challenges facing business in Europe in a world...

Telecommunications: Are the regulators killing innovation?
March 22, 1998... The ending of monopolies in most European Union countries on January 1 1998 has shifted the industry spotlight to the role of regulation. With particular reference to the contrasting non-monopoly experience of telecommunications in the US and...

Will the Internet bring electronic services to the home?
March 22, 1998... Few topics have attracted more hype than the Internet. This article provides a rare long-term perspective. It starts with an account of a century of failed visions and applications: the Internet itself operated in obscurity for two decades....

The boundary of leadership: getting it right and having it all.
March 22, 1998... Leadership should be a balance between a directive style which shows the way (gets the job done) and a softer, devolved style which maximises the potential of individuals. This article describes how setting a boundary serves both purposes. The...

Advanced auto-engineering: A technology-led UK cluster.
March 22, 1998... Advanced auto-engineering firms in Britain dominate racecar engineering worldwide. They also play an important role in transmitting technology developed in the aerospace/defence industries to the price-oriented volume-car industry. But how...