Journal of Business Strategy: Volume 6 Issue 3

THE LOGIC OF KANBAN

Bruce D. Henderson

The story of Kanban, the vitally important Japanese manufacturing technique, is just beginning. U.S. companies that can make use of the Kanban system will gain enormous…

CHOOSING A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Ronald M. Locklin

Despite potential pitfalls, users of information technology are increasingly finding it advantageous to interconnect to “network” computer systems. In fact, the widespread use of…

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY ANALYSIS ON THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

H. Igor Ansoff

It is impractical to expect busy senior managers to devote much time to learning intricacies of modern strategic analysis. But much analytic expertise can be built into a computer…

APPLYING TECHNOLOGY: THE KEY TO THE FUTURE

William C. Norris

Applying technology most effectively requires a business strategy. One of the main parts of the strategy of Control Data is to address major unmet needs of society by establishing…

IMPLEMENTING THE SHAREHOLDER VALUE APPROACH

Michael L. Blyth, Elizabeth A. Friskey, Alfred Rappaport

Momentum is gaining among major corporations to use the shareholder value approach to planning. This approach enables management to test alternative strategies and select that…

TOUGH QUESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING STRATEGIES

George S. Day

The value of strategic planning is a continuing topic for debate. As evidence mounts that many business strategies are poorly conceived and badly implemented, the debate has a…

REVITALIZATION: THE HONEYWELL INFORMATION SYSTEMS STORY

Noel M. Tichy, David L. Dotlich, Dale G. Lake

Growth in the maturing mainframe computer market faded in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, growth in the minimarket stopped. The environment facing Honeywell Information Systems was…

Collaborative Ventures

Peter R. Scanlon

The past several years have been difficult ones for many U.S. corporations. They have had to accommodate unfamiliar technologies, defend their home markets against heightened…

Entrepreneurship in a Mature Industry: AFG's Integrated Approach

R.D. Hubbard

Over the past few years, there has been widespread adoption among leading business authors of the entrepreneurial “solution” to today's long‐terms strategic planning issues. While…

Can Patents Be Used to Gain Market Objectives?

R.F. Lipscomb

There is growing evidence that, with some notable exceptions, the use of patents to gain or protect market objectives is not successful in industry today.