Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

Opinion: Why successful companies hold back on growth

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Most CEOs I know have a least one of Jim Collins’ books in their office. Over the past couple of decades, starting with Built to Last,

Opinion: An opportunistic acquisitions strategy

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One would expect a company with 31,000 employees and revenues of $4.32 billion – making it the seventh-largest systems integrator in the world – to

Opinion: Innovating like Steve Jobs

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During the last few months, the media has been fixated on the life and legacy of Steve Jobs. Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M.

Opinion: RocketOwl wises up to products game

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While it’s often hard to tell whether a tech company is a hardware or software business, or a services or products studio, there’s no doubt

Opinion: Select Start Studios grows exponentially by helping clients of clients

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I recently interviewed the tall, charismatic 30-year old Select Start Studios CEO Tariq Zaid at the company’s cool headquarters in an old stone building fronting

Opinion: BTI rides wave of global networking demand

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BTI Systems may be the fastest-growing tech company flying under the radar of some in Ottawa. Californian Steve Waszak, who leads a global head count

Opinion: ‘Fenix’-like rise into open source profits

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Jennifer MacKinnon started Fenix Solutions in 2001 after the Montreal-based tech company she was working for decided to pull out of the Ottawa market. She

Opinion: Overcoming the quick-fix appeal of outsourcing

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Leslie P. Willcocks, Sara Cullen, and Andrew Craig, The Outsourcing Enterprise: From Cost Management to Collaborative Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. I am often asked to

Opinion: Selling socks and underwear subscriptions

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Anyone who starts a company with the following tagline is bound to be different: “We give men (and the people who love them) more time

Opinion: Breakfast at Buck’s and other Silicon Valley stories

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William Draper III, The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Buck’s is one of those unique Silicon Valley institutions.