Opinion: Innovating like Steve Jobs
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: Innovating like Steve Jobs
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
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
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: ‘Fenix’-like rise into open source profits
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: Shareholder value theory and the NFL
Roger Martin, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Harvard Business Review Press, May 2011. Shareholder value theory has
Opinion: Overcoming the quick-fix appeal of outsourcing
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: Connecting with clients before foraging for funds
I built my own Shopify store on the company’s platform in less than 10 minutes. When I was having a problem understanding their back-end customization
Opinion: Why we need a film publishing rights movement
Standards such as, say, a common language, a common currency, a set of laws, dates, times, volumes and 18,000 other things covered by the International
Opinion: Jim Donnelly, signing off
It’s hard to know what to write when it’s your last kick at the can, but I’ll give it a try anyhow. For those of
Opinion: Calypso’s wild and wet debut
I recently spoke with Sylvain Lauzon, vice-president at Calypso Waterpark and former employee of Rick Hunter’s rival firm ProSlide Technology Inc., which hopes to open
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