Category: Enterprise Apps

Dude, You’re Gettin’ A Car

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Scott Painter is a car guy. At age 12, he started an auto detailing service. For $40 a pop, he’d pick

Fast Food Fails Digital Networking Test

The most important shareholders’ meeting in McDonald’s history was about to start. It was early May 2003 and several hundred stockholders and analysts were wedged

Data Depot

It’s a rainy day at the Home Depot in Secaucus, N.J. Contractors are milling about. Pigeons feed from an open bag of Wagner’s Four Season

Lowe’s Big Plan

One right turn, two lefts and three miles away from the Secaucus Home Depot, mothers are pushing baby strollers along airy, bright aisles at a

The Competitor Next Door

Jack Delgado is confused. Wan and sniffling, he has come to the Walgreens drugstore at the corner of State Road 7 and Wiles Road in

On the Ball

Not long ago, Ball Corp. Chief Executive R. David Hoover and his management team could only scratch their heads and wonder as tens of billions

Online Extras: May 2003

Case Dissection (p. 34-54) No Deposit, No Return A salty-snack maker in Texas pioneered the use of wireless communications on delivery routes. Among the copycats: