Opinion: Spatially challenged? Here’s the book for you
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
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Opinion: Spatially challenged? Here’s the book for you
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?
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
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?
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?
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?
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
Opinion: Forget PowerPoint – time to get sticky
Chip and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Random House, 2008. I am an obsessive consumer of business books.
Opinion: Hub’s death signals larger shift
So Ottawa’s long-sought Innovation Hub, the source of hundreds of closed-door meetings and hush-hush phone calls and anxious protagonists and multi-level governmental consultations, is apparently
Opinion: Hubris born of success: Why Nortel should read this book
Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. HarperCollins, 2009. The senior executive team of Nortel Networks Corp. were reportedly
Opinion: Analyzing your chance of success
Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Harvard Business School Press, 2007. Edward Demmings is reputed to
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