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Now back on a soild foundation, Champion Enterprises keeps expanding its manufactured home business.

Free at last, NCR focuses on its technological and market niches to grow and profit as a centenarian start‐up.

Sometimes business strategists and information technology managers seem to zoom down different roads. To succeed, companies need to get their business and l/T strategies on the same track.

The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

This article is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

The article shows that a boom in “big data” appears to have caught organizations off guard. So how do they cope with processing such enormous amounts of information? Should they try to cope internally or outsource the job? And, if the latter, what safeguards do they need to address?

The article provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.

The article provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact.

The article saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to‐digest format.

Read enough management books, listen to enough gurus, and you'd think there's no way any company is going to survive too far into the next millennium. The world's just moving so fast, they all say, that executives must ever be poised to leap through windows of opportunity that pop open at unpredictable moments. And they've got to pick the right windows and leap at precisely the right time. It sometimes seems as if enduring the next decade will demand that executives be embued with measurable levels of extrasensory perception.

You've finally cut to your core. But can you hold all the pieces together?

The subject of this issue's cover story, NCR, is 113 years old, which might be regarded as venerable for a U.S. company. Of course, some firms are older—Eleuthére Irénée du Pont de Nemours set up shop to produce black powder in 1802, and William Procter and James Gamble established their partnership in 1837. But only shortly before John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884, did General Electric (1876), and Exxon (as Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1882) come into being. And just two years later, in May 1886, Dr. John S. Pemberton sold the first sip of Coca‐Cola in Atlanta.

Some years ago, a nurse was mugged on a New York City subway platform. The thief pulled a very large knife, demanded the nurse's jewelry and handbag, and then brutally shoved her to the ground, nearly into the path of an oncoming train. After the mugger fled, other commuters helped the frightened and bruised nurse to her feet and summoned the transit police. As soon as the police arrived, the nurse, still shaken, said, “Quick! My address and keys are in the handbag—he'll probably rob my apartment next!” So, the nurse and the police sped off to her home, where, just as she had predicted, they surprised the subway mugger in the process of denuding the apartment of its salable contents. When asked how she had managed to keep her head after such a terrifying experience, the nurse replied, “I work in the emergency room. I've been trained to stay cool in a crisis.”