Baseline articles from January 2002

Baseline archives from January 2002

Kmart: SCM Gone Wrong.(supply chain management)
January 23, 2002... By the 530th day, the turnaround that Chuck Conaway announced on Aug. 10, 2000, was finished. On that day, Kmart filed for bankruptcy protection. Now, Kmart CEO Conaway and newly named Kmart Chairman James Adamson will begin a new...

Commentary: Blame Enough to Go Around at Kmart.
January 23, 2002... The profound failure of Kmart's ever-vacillating technology strategy was both a cause and a symptom of the problems that drove the retailer to bankruptcy. On the cause side, Kmart has been unable to build the systems that would get its...

Top 10 Signs a Company Is Headed South.
January 24, 2002... 10. CEO talks more about "vision" than "execution" 9. Cover stories appear in Fortune/BusinessWeek about CEO's uniquely effective leadership 8. Article in Harvard Business Review extols excellence of company's most-recent change...

Management Lessons for 'Fragile' Times.(World Economic Forum, 2002)(Interview)
January 24, 2002... "Contrary to the conventional wisdom, must companies are not in a state of crisis today." That's the surprising message one management guru plans to deliver at next week's World Economic Forum meeting. It won't be business as usual when...

Three Big Breakdowns of 2001.(Disney, Kmart, Nike suffer IT problems)
January 28, 2002... Technology mishaps were hard to miss in 2001. Much attention was paid a debacle starring an alleged $400 million investment in i2 Technologies software that led Nike to say that inventory problems hurt earnings. But there were plenty more...

Three IT Triumphs for 2001.(Eastman Chemical, Chevron, Mercedes-Benz Espana report IT success stories)(Brief Article)
January 28, 2002... When gauging the success of technology projects, numbers count. But so does executive support. "[Success] has very little to do with technology and lots to do with people," says Karen Larkowski, executive vice president of the Standish...

IBM Eyes '100% Mandate' for Software Sales.(Moves all software sales online)
January 29, 2002... Would you buy all your software over the Internet? IBM thinks you will. As 2002 began, IBM VP and IBM.com General Manager Doug Maine told Baseline that he had an executive mandate to fulfill 100% of IBM's software sales through IBM.com. An...

E*Trade Bets Big on Linux.
January 30, 2002... NEW YORK--Was it IBM's much-ballyhooed recent announcement of a mainframe that runs only Linux that swayed E*Trade Group Inc. to dump its Sun Microsystems Solaris servers in favor of the open-source operating system? E*Trade Chief...