Organizational change

Tech Priority Check

While the New Orleans economy is powered mainly by tourism, many community leaders envision the city as an emerging technological hub anchored by its most recent high-tech achievement: The Naval Information Technology CenterREAD»

Bruce Anderson

JacksonvilleREAD»

Beach-Blanket Business

Change agents and restless business leaders band together in an effort to revive and rejuvenate their corners of the Sunshine State. This is not your father's fishing port anymore.READ»

Roots of Change

When Associate Editor Heath Row helped organize the Company of Friends nearly two years ago, he likely never envisioned the lasting impression it would make on local business communities. In Florida, change is beginning slowly within six CoF cellsREAD»

The Roundtable

The following representatives from the New Orleans business, education, and technology communities contributed insight, forecasts, and cautions regarding the transformation of their hometown.READ»

Models of Success

As New Orleans begins the process of tearing down its failures and building up its most promising future ventures, this sultry Southern tourist town is looking outside the region and inside its city limits for inspiring success stories.READ»

Brand U.S.A.: New Orleans

Given its rich cultural history, can and should New Orleans embrace the technological demands of the New Economy and down play its Mardi Gras reputation?READ»

Reinventing New Orleans

Silicon Bourbon? New Orleans works to change its brand from indulgence to innovation and from revelry to research.READ»

When There’s a Clear Target, the Right Details are Easier to Find

A Hotel for Japan-Loving Hipsters What if you had to create a Japanese cultural experience in a Western hotel? That box led to Chip Conley's Hotel Tomo in San Francisco, with anime art covering the walls, beanbag chairs, and gaming ...READ»

Get Back in the Box

How constraints can free your team’s thinkingREAD»

• When There's a Clear Target, The Right Details Are Easier to Fin

Analysis of Paralysis

If your strategy doesn't help employees act, it's not a strategy.READ»

• There Are Competing Priorities in Every Business

eBay’s Chaos Theory

With its buyers swamped by a sea of choices-and its growth rate slowing-the online giant gambles on helping shoppers find what they want.READ»

After the Virgin Birth

Fred Reid, CEO of the fledgling carrier Virgin America, talks management strategy and explains his beef with airline food.READ»

Courting Viewers

Can Steve Koonin save another cable network?READ»

Business Left Undone

Bill McGuire left UnitedHealth in the wake of an options scandal. While he awaits his fate, he refocuses on his great passion: reforming health care.READ»

Streamlining HP

Sam Lucente's business is corporate design. Persuasion is his game.READ»

Time to Get Trigger Happy

Creating an environment for your idea will make it more successful.READ»

• rage Marketers Have Created Idea Triggers Better Than Anyone

Getting Personal

The Personal Sustainability Project, or PSP, that Werbach and his firm, Act Now, are running for Wal-Mart is intended to help the company's 1.3 million employees see how sustainability--defined very broadly as "having enough for now, while not harming the future"--relates to their own lives. Here's the strategy:READ»

Working With the Enemy

Once the youngest president of the Sierra Club, Adam Werbach used to call Wal-Mart toxic. Now the company is his biggest client. Does the path to a greener future run through Bentonville?READ»

Dawn of the Dead

Once one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley, Sun Microsystems crashed with the dotcoms, but it kept pouring money into R&D. Now there are signs of a revival, thanks to a new CEO and a big black box.READ»

The Red Zone

At the Boston Consulting Group, put in too many hours and you'll get flagged.READ»

Lessons From the Tarmac

Take it from David Neeleman and JetBlue: Recovering from a crisis is about the trust you build beforehand.READ»

Hard-Driving

Satellite radio goes TiVo.READ»

First Look

Pop!: Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy By Daniel Gross Collins, May 2007 219 pp., $23 Gross, a columnist for Slate and The New York Times, takes a contrarian look at rampant financial speculations, celebrating their ...READ»

Grant Makers

$50 isn't much--unless it comes from a coworker.READ»