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Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage of technology companies, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports.

Opinion: Zappos: Core values or no values?

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For the first three quarters of my advance copy of the book Delivering Happiness by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh (pronounced “Shay”), I felt like this was going

Opinion: Designing a winning strategy

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Roger Martin, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage. Harvard, 2009. In his latest book, Roger Martin, one of Canada’s leading

Opinion: Terry’s 10 commandments

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After meeting with executives from local venture capital firm Wesley Clover last week, I left with a feeling that I’d just experienced a Bizarro moment.

Opinion: How to electrify your company

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Frank Koller, Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First Century Corporation. Public Affairs, 2010. The last few years have been trying for American workers and businesses.

Opinion: Spatially challenged? Here’s the book for you

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Mark W. Johnson, Seizing The White Space: Business Model Innovation For Growth And Renewal, Harvard Business School, 2010. Have you looked closely at your company’s business

Opinion: The Asian powerhouses: All they’re cracked up to be?

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Wendy Dobson, Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape The 21st Century, University of Toronto Press, 2009. One of the major economic stories of

Opinion: I love it when a plan comes together

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John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through To a Better Business Model, Harvard Business Press, 2009. It’s an old military adage

Opinion: Battle of the greedy TV companies?

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If Canada’s television giants have their way, many viewers will probably pay even more than they do now to watch their favourite TV shows. The

Opinion: ‘Connected Car’ super cool, but is it safe?

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There’s something innately exciting about a car that can flick on the furnace before you get home, don’t you think? Imagine it. You’re on your

Opinion: Are you an e-mail apniac?

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I’d been chatting with a high-profile local technology figure late last week when the reality of instant communications hit us both as hard as a