On the business stage, mixed reviews for Lotus's chief
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Lotus Development Chmn and CEO Jim P. Manzi is enjoying two major victories in June 1992: the software company's tenth anniversary and IBM's announcement of its incorporation of two Lotus products into its networking products. Lotus's reputation in the software industry was built on its spreadsheet products, and analysts have questioned the wisdom of the company's expansion into other software products. With the inclusion of Lotus's electronic mail system, cc:Mail and its workgroup computing product, Lotus Notes, into IBM's networks, Manzi's strategy of concentrating on networking products seems to be paying off, although insiders still maintain that his expertise is in the field of business, not software, and believe Lotus would do better with a chairman more versed in software. Manzi made a major strategical error in the late 1980s by choosing to concentrate development efforts on software for IBM's OS/2 operating system, which proved less popular than Microsoft Corp's Windows graphical user interface (GUI).
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Andersen Consulting's culture of 'clones'; a kingpin of high-tech advice may be too inbred to address shifts in computing
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Andersen Consulting, the market leader in the $41 billion high technology consulting business, is facing the challenges of growing competition, a swiftly changing computer industry and a recession-slowed economy. Andersen's corporate culture places a premium on new recruits, mostly fresh from college, who will undergo three weeks of rigid training before joining the company's work force of 22,000 worldwide. Analysts see such practice as too inbred and insular, especially because the rapid changes in the high technology industry require consultants who are more experienced in the ways of corporate America. The $2.3 billion Andersen now competes with IBM, Electronic Data Systems, DEC and the Big Six accounting firms. The intense competition is further spurred by the shift from mainframe systems, Andersen's historical specialty, to high-speed networks of microcomputers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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