Author: Kim S Nash

Corning Focuses on Customer Data

In the quiet clean of a newly renovated facility in upstate New York farm country, Corning Inc. grows fluoride crystals—highly specialized, glasslike material. Corning’s customers

How Washington Mutual Smooths Acquisitions

Banks are notorious for poorly integrating the companies they acquire. The problems go beyond charging new transaction fees or startling customers with redesigned monthly statements.

How CIOs Reach the Top

Every year, senior managers participate in a corporate beauty contest—and few technology executives make the final list. A Baseline analysis finds that only 37 chief

Are You a CIO Who Matters?

Every year, senior managers participate in a corporate beauty contest—and few technology executives make the final list. A Baseline analysis finds that only 37 chief

Trading Places at P&G

About one-third of Procter & Gamble’s finance, sales and marketing employees have no family photos on their desks, no M&M’s stashed in a drawer. Their

The Bottom Line Per … Pamela McNutt

As technology chief for Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, a $275-million network of medical centers in Texas, Pamela McNutt faces twin pressures of declining revenues and

Schering-Plough’s Bitter Pill

Schering-Plough, a $9.8 billion drugmaker best known for its Claritin allergy pills, is a chronic violator of Food and Drug Administration rules on making medicines.

Sigma-Aldrich Tweaks Web Formula

If you worked in Sigma-Aldrich’s customer service group three or four years ago, you performed some ugly gyrations to fill the orders of online shoppers.