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
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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
Opinion: ‘Stop thinking like bureaucrats and start thinking like insurgents’
Hayagreeva Rao, Market Rebels: How Activists Make Or Break Radical Innovations. Princeton University Press, 2008. On the front cover of this book, former Intel Corp.
Opinion: Hypocrisy goes mobile
I caught one of those funky Koodo Mobile television commercials the other day. You know the ones. They feature that mustachioed guy in his fluorescent
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