A Guide to Strategy Resources on the Web
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The following online journals are a key starting point for anyone interested in the corporate strategy area.
California Management Review - Search abstracts from past and present editions. Full text articles can be ordered online.
Executive Agenda - Top Ranked! Strategy journal by A T Kearney. Full text articles available.
Harvard Business Review - A summary of HBR articles dating back to July 1995. Full text articles can be ordered online.
Journal of Business Strategies - Access to the current edition and a searchable abstract index.
Long Range Planning - Table of contents only (no abstract or full text available).
McKinsey Quarterly - Top Ranked! One of the most comprehensive online strategy journals. Free registration to search & view a wide range of articles from the journal.
Mercer Management Journal - Strategy journal by Mercer Management Consulting.
Prism - Strategy journal by Arthur D Little.
Sloan Management Review - Search abstracts from past and present editions. Full text articles can be ordered online.
Strategy & Business - Sponsored by Booz Allen & Hamilton. Includes free articles, an ideas exchange forum, book reviews and a search engine for business quotes.
Strategy formulation rests heavily upon the analysis of the company and its environment. There are a multitude of online resources for company and industry analysis, these are a selection:
Fortune 500 - Includes rankings, associated stories, and searchable database of 500 largest U.S. corporations.
Hoover's Online - Company profiles plus access to records on public and private companies. Includes top business news stories, corporate web sites, and links to stock quotes and SEC filings.
Dow Jones Business Directory - Annotated and searchable business sites to locate in depth business information.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - Compilation of documents filed by public corporations with the SEC detailing public company data.
FreeEDGAR - A search and browse SEC Filings
EDGAR Online People - Searches SEC Filings by a person's name or displays all people associated with a specific company name.
Industry Research Desk - Provides tools and information for researching specific companies, industries and manufacturing processes, with links to industry data and home pages.
Free Annual Reports - Online access to a limited number of annual reports.
Business Researcher’s Tool - Top ranked! A knowledge map of contemporary business, management and information technology issues accessible through an index of twenty topical sections.
Industry Specific Research - This index contains links to nearly 600 intelligence-related Internet sites, covering everything from macro-economic data to individual patent and stock quote information. This site also contains a useful internet searching tip sheet.
There are a number of general business magazines / periodicals which cover trends in the business environment. These include such things as electronic commerce, ERP, customer relationship management, and knowledge management. Whilst not directly applicable to corporate strategy, these provide a good backdrop to the business environment.
Business Week Magazine - Online access to the current edition as well as a good search facility
Far East Economic Review - Articles and archive
Financial Times - Some current articles as well as some industry specific analysis
Forbes - Articles and archive
Industry Week - Online access to the current edition and an archive of past editions
The Economist - Top Ranked! Access to current articles and an archive back to 1995 (plus a great screen saver!)
Cnet - The "Trends" section is a good source of information about internet developments.
Cyber Dialogue - An internet market research company which provides free access to some articles and white papers.
CyberAtlas - CyberAtlas is a guide to online facts with a focus on online marketing. CyberAtlas gathers online research from a variety of source and provides them to users free of charge.
eMarketer - A site which aggregates, filters, organizes and analyzes statistics, news and information relating to the Internet. A great site for internet trends.
Internet Advertising Bureau - Good research from a not for profit association devoted exclusively to maximizing the use and effectiveness of advertising on the internet
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ZDNet - A good e-business best practice section.
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