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Issue 2, 1990

From Uncertainty to Risk: Reducing the Guesswork in R&D

The R...
Issue 2, 1990

Planning for Chaos: A Scenario Approach to the Oil Market

No one can forecast oil prices. Yet a sharp change in oil prices can radically alter business conditions for a very large number of companies. In the early 1980s, automobile companies, iron and steel companies, airlines, marine transportation companies, and ultimately financial institutions all...
Issue 1, 1990

Asia Pacific: The Next Regional Trading Bloc?

If Lester Thurow is right in suggesting that GATT is "dead," how will international trading relationships develop during the rest of this century? In an era of improving communications and rapid economic development, companies' investment, marketing, and sourcing strategies are becoming...
Issue 4, 1990

The New Business Topography

Once again we are embarked on a period of turbulent change, when it seems that the established order is dissolving, familiar guideposts disappearing, and our traditional frames of reference out of date. The very topography in which business is conducted is shifting beneath our feet. Change of this...
Issue 1, 1990

Proprietary Technology: The Next Challenge for the NICs

The future economic success of the Asia Pacific region is predicated on developing and sustaining a successful manufacturing sector. This must include not only primary processing and secondary manufacturing, in which the region has considerable experience, but the development of proprietary...