The Antidote: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
The hollow ring of corporate America
T KippenbergerQuestions whether corporate USA will be able to maintain competitiveness into the next millennium owing to unrelenting restructuring, meaning a recovery is based on an illusion of…
The theory of the business
T KippenbergerAcknowledges Peter Drucker's place as a guru in management theory or business trend, well ahead of his peers. Discusses his part in developing the idea of privatization in the UK…
Do you have the right distinctive capabilities?
T KippenbergerArgues that to match the right distinctive capabilities to the challenges of the business environment is the difference between corporate success and failure. Investigates John…
The hunt for core competencies
T KippenbergerExpresses concern about large corporations' ability to maintain their competitive edge in view of smaller resource‐limited competitors (mainly Japanese) successfully challenging…
Remember competitive strategy? Remember Michael Porter?
T KippenbergerRebukes those in business who have lost sight of strategy, in the more recent rush for operational effectiveness, warning that the growth imperative is hazardous to strategy. Goes…
Trade‐offs, compromises and growth — the value of lateral thinking
T KippenbergerSpecifies that many managers see themselves as inhibited and trapped through being in a mature slow‐growth business, in stagnant, dead‐in‐the‐water industries. Highlights three US…
How do some companies achieve high growth?
T KippenbergerWonders why, in an atmosphere of intense competition, some companies achieve sustained high growth in profits and revenues. Highlights the example of Formule 1, a chain of budget…
The three ‘R’s of growth strategies: radical, rational or robust
T KippenbergerArgues that, of three different growth strategies revealed in a recent study, only one leads to substantial growth and specifies these three as: radical growth — most admired by…
Banking on an ethical stance (The Co‐operative Bank, UK)
T KippenbergerLooks, in depth, at the UK Co‐operative (Co‐op) Bank and how it has now gone back to its roots to make a difference. Espouses competitive strategy and how the Co‐op is about being…
That'll be the Daewoo
T KippenbergerSpotlights South Korean car and vehicle manufacturer Daewoo (meaning ‘the whole universe’), the 30th largest industrial corporation in the world. Recounts that Daewoo announced…