Ottawa Business Journal

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

Techopia

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: A question of urban vs. suburban

Residential

The City of Ottawa’s policy on densifying the national capital region is working, at least if price differentials are any indication of success: a new

Opinion: An expensive delay?

Retail

A new public garage should ease a parking shortage around the Rideau Centre in time for the Christmas shopping season, but the builders may face

Opinion: Hammering out a ‘free trait’ agreement

Ottawa

When noted former Harvard University lecturer and psychology expert Brian Little gave the keynote at a big human resources event last week, he likely couldn’t

Opinion: Are you an e-mail apniac?

Techopia

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: It’s a dog’s life … in our fair city

Ottawa

My girlfriend and I were faced with a major business problem earlier this week, and I’m going to be frank with you: for a while,

Opinion: Forget PowerPoint – time to get sticky

Techopia

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: The NCC: Steward or greedy landowner?

Ottawa

There’s something exhilarating about living in the National Capital Region, where one is often compelled to stickhandle through more layers of government in an afternoon

Opinion: Hub’s death signals larger shift

Techopia

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

Techopia

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