Industrial Management articles from May 1999

Industrial Management archives from May 1999

Finding balance, part 1.(work/life balance)
May 1, 1999... A lot is being written about redesigning work to help encourage work/life balance. Companies are beginning to recognize signs of burnout and are realizing that unless people can have balance in their lives, their productivity will suffer....

The seven strategies of effective business.
May 1, 1999... The speed of media in the 1990s and beyond has decided the fate of modern business. A new strategy, a new technology, even a new patent cannot avoid being copied or improved upon by competitors in a short amount of time. The keys for an...

Better management for the feds.(federal policy for government commercial activities)
May 1, 1999... In 1966, the United States Office of Management and Budget issued Circular A-76, which established federal policy for the government's performance of commercial activities. Commercial activity is defined as any pursuit that is operated by the...

Eat or be eaten.(importance of business competition)
May 1, 1999... Like all other animals, humans know what it means to "eat or be eaten," so we understand the importance of competition. Evolution dictates that our environment changes when new competitors pop up. Competition forces us to improve - or become...

Taming the beast.(enterprise-wide software systems)
May 1, 1999... The growth of enterprise-wide systems has been phenomenal. German-owned industry leader SAP has seen revenues soar from less than $500 million in 1992 to more than $4.5 billion in 1998 due to its pioneering R/3 software. It once seemed that SAP...

Why new technologies fail.
May 1, 1999... Technology implementations are expensive and often fail. Failures - cases in which new technologies perform below expected levels - are estimated to run between 40 percent to 75 percent. The Standish Group's 1996 study of 360 companies...