Strategy & Management

Magazine articles on business strategy, management and leadership.

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IndustryWeek September 1, 2002 Jill Jusko	Focus, Communicate In Down Market Markos I. Tambakeras, chairman, president and CEO of Kennametal Inc., talks about managing through a down economy.
CIO August 15, 2002 Lafe Low	The Integration Imperative For this year's CIO-100 honorees, integration is no longer a choice -- it's an obligation. And that means far more than merely connecting systems. It means marrying IT strategy to business goals. Not an easy task, but once achieved, the payoff is huge.
CIO August 15, 2002 Stephanie Overby	Economies of Scale Saddled with numerous disparate systems after an aggressive acquisition binge, MetLife needed to get integrated to cash in on its size and improve customer service. Here's how it did it.
CIO August 15, 2002 Todd Datz	Strategic Alignment Your business processes can't enable superior customer service or an efficient supply chain without integrated systems. The four companies profiled here demonstrate the benefits of a strategic perspective and long-term commitment to integration.
CIO August 15, 2002 Ben Worthen	Mergers and Acquisitions Many of the CIO-100 honorees were thrust into the theater of integration following a merger. These companies shared the same urgent pace of integration as they streamlined processes and combined systems.
CIO August 15, 2002 Sari Kalin	Return on Investment There's no question that application integration makes intuitive sense. Three CIO-100 honorees show how it also makes economic and strategic sense.
Knowledge@Wharton	Marketers Turn to Metrics to Measure the Impact of Their Initiatives The search for better marketing metrics is underway throughout Corporate America. Marketing executives are devoting more attention than ever to ways in which they can link traditional marketing variables to hard-core financial concepts, such as a company's stock price or ROI.
Knowledge@Wharton Richard Shell	It's About Time: Corporate Responsibility Law Finally Makes Lawyers More Accountable Although the reputations of CEOs, accountants, bankers, analysts, and even consultants have suffered during the recent spate of corporate scandals, lawyers so far have escaped blame, let alone indictment. But that may change, as it should.
Salon.com August 13, 2002 Arianna Huffington	Redefining the bottom line Corporate rebels are pushing a new manifesto that makes social and environmental impact as important as profit.
CFO Julia Homer	It's Not the Apples Throwing fruit at lawbreaking CFOs is not enough. The fact is, the system of financial reporting needs some serious repairing.
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