Ottawa Business Journal

Opinion: The common-sense rules of invention

Ottawa

We’ve all had it happen – that epiphanic moment. You know what I mean. When that big, booming, sassy idea for some kind of mind-blowing

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

Techopia

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: UPDATE: HBS marketing a new business model?

Ottawa

It’s always somewhat of an annoyance for a company when “bankruptcy” is the second-most searched term related to it on Google. But that’s the unfortunate

Opinion: A flicker of hope for a lean promenade

Retail

Finally, there’s some terrific news for Sparks Street, the downtown thoroughfare that once throbbed with life but which has been deadly-dull for decades. As initially

Opinion: Synergizing solutions into revectored deliverables

Ottawa

As the rubber hits the road on a new year, I think we’re all in need of some real blue-sky thinking – perhaps even a

Opinion: Jim Treliving and the art of the deal

Ottawa

Jim Treliving was just a young lad, growing up beneath the big sky of the Canadian Prairies, when he got his first lesson in business.

Opinion: The Indians are coming … wait, they’re already here

Ottawa

You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about the Indian firm Tata, that country’s largest multinational company and mega-brand. No doubt some of you first

Opinion: I love it when a plan comes together

Techopia

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: Israel: ‘We are the startup nation’

Canada & World

My first foray into the world of Israeli ingenuity came, oddly enough, not on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean but in the cool breezes

Opinion: Credit freeze or media frenzy?

Canada & World

It went little-reported in the wider media when released a few weeks back, but a recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers contained some rather intriguing insights. The