Ottawa Business Journal

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

Island paradise?

Real Estate

Do you have upwards of half a million dollars to spend on a grand old home? Are you looking for a bargain? Then you may

Opinion: Analyzing your chance of success

Techopia

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’

Techopia

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.

Passing on Public Works

Ottawa

For months, MPs have heard a message repeated by representatives from a variety of sectors: the hassles that come along with selling to Public Works