E-Business Transformation at the Crossroads: Sears’ Dilemma

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Ranganathan ◽  
Analini Shetty ◽  
Gayathri Muthukumaran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Transformation Strategy

This teaching case discusses the challenges facing Sears, Reobeck and Co., a leading retailer in United States, in its efforts to transform itself into an effective brick-and-click organization. In face of intense competition from other retailers and online e-tailers, Sears has continually expanded its online efforts in e-business transformation. This case traces the key e-business initiatives taken by Sears and highlights significant managerial challenges that were encountered during the formulation and execution of an effective e-business transformation strategy. The case presents the issues faced by a new CIO who had taken over the technology and e-business affairs at Sears at the end of 2002.

scholarly journals International business transformation patteerns of czech enterprises since the velvet revolution and the velvet divorce

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Goodnow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Business ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
World Class

From a macroeconomic standpoint, the Czech Republic has been viewed as a leading example of successful transformation from a state owned to a privatized economy. Yet at the firm and industry levels, the transformation process is still in its early stages. This article focuses on the transformation of outbound international business activities of the country and offers statistical and case study evidence to support four propositions describing the transformation process to date. First, most Czech international business activity is oriented toward its European neighbors. Second, globalization is beginning in a few selected firm and industries. Third, the reliance on low price rather than other international marketing advantages limits the development of world class images of Czech export commodities. Fourth, beginning globalization efforts of Czech firms focus on emerging markets of Asia, South America and Africa and to a lesser extent on the United States but largely exclude Japan.

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY TO INCREASING COMPANY'S INCOME IN PRODUCTS DOOH (DIGITAL OUT OF HOME) IN PT. METRA DIGITAL MEDIA

Tibuana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Yitno Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Statistical Data Analysis ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Home Product ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control ◽  
Transformation Strategy

     This reseach to study the effectiveness of business transformation strategy in PT Metra Digital Media and to know the difference  increasing of company earnings in DOOH (Digital Out Of Home) product in PT Metra Digital Media,  before and after  implementation of business transformation strategy. The sample cases in this research are 22 customer companies that have not followed the business transformation process, which is advertised through the directory and control samples, and 22 customer companies that have been following the business transformation process are advertising through DOOH (Digital Out Of Home). Calculation data analysis using SPSS (Statistical Data Analysis) test that Independent-Samples T-Test. The results showed that the effectiveness of the implementation of business transformation strategy applies to product indicator, payment method, service and sales, because the OR (Odd Ratio) value is higher in companies that choose DOOH, while those that are not effectively selected are indicator of the period of exposure and popularity, the difference  increasing of company earnings on DOOH (Digital Out Of Home) products at PT Metra Digital Media before and after the implementation of business transformation strategy is evidenced from p = 0,016 (sig <0,05) and  hypothesis is accepted.

Competition, Specialization, and Industrial Decline

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lazonick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Organization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Industrial Decline

The technological backwardness of the British cotton industry in the first six decades of this century was due primarily to the structure of industrial organization, characterized by intense competition and specialization, that had developed in the nineteenth century when the industry had no serious international competitors. But with the rise of corporate economies, particularly in Japan and the United States, this structure of industrial organization rendered British cotton managers powerless to create the corporate structures required to meet this challenge. Britain's decline was due to the failure of its managers to create conditions for new profitable opportunities by altering the constraints that they faced.

scholarly journals A Teaching Case Study: Roxy Music Limited

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Yvonne P. Shanahan ◽  
Morris W. Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
The United Kingdom

Roxy Music Limited is a wholesale supplier of Compact Discs (CDs), Music Cassettes, Videos and, more recently DVDs, in the New Zealand music and entertainment market. All products are imported from Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States of America or Holland. Product arrives in boxes of 1,000 units. For the purpose of this case, we are focusing on CD sales.

The United States Supersonic Transport A Progress Report

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (691) ◽  
pp. 567-573
Author(s):  
John M. Swihart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
General Electric ◽  
General Electric Company ◽  
Supersonic Transport ◽  
Electric Company ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Boeing Company

On 31st December 1966, General McKee of the Federal Aviation Administration announced that The Boeing Company and the General Electric Company had been selected to develop the prototype airframe and engines for the United States supersonic transport. The announcement ended a long, intense competition and was the culmination of the nine years of effort on the part of Boeing, where since January 1958 there has been an identified, separate project devoted to the SST.

Designing a Business Transformation Strategy for Integrated Operations

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Ghaffar Dawam ◽  
Fadhli Wong ◽  
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Business Transformation ◽  
Integrated Operations ◽  
Transformation Strategy
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