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"Panasonic tells how a typical Japanese multinational learned to restructure itself according to this flexible "American" approach while preserving some essential Japanese attributes. Panasonic is the main brand name for Matsushita Electric Industrial Company; author Francis McInerney consulted for Matsushita's American subsidiary in the late 1990s—when the firm's troubles became most apparent."
Wireless Net: deflated expectations Industry could wait years before it sees a big profit
Dow Jones Marketwatch.com, May 5, 2001
Jeffrey Bartash
A better fix
...Still, not everyone is persuaded that today's wireless phone carriers are best suited to carry high-speed Internet traffic.
"It's the wrong network at the wrong time and a complete and willful waste of shareholder money," said consultant Francis McInerney, principal of North River Ventures. "No network was ever designed from the device (cell phones) out."
McInterney believes fixed-wireless networks are the ultimate solution because they have far more power and capacity to transmit the kind of bandwidth-hungry multimedia content for which users would be willing to pay a premium. "We're moving into an age in which all media will be visual and essential," he said.
Fixed wireless networks would solve another problem by giving rivals of entrenched local phone companies cheap and easy access to homes and businesses, he argues.
