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Elizabeth has been making personnel decisions at RIM since the BlackBerry looked more like a pager than a smartphone. She shares over a decade of wisdom and strategies for keeping a startup attitude in a global enterprise.
The results are in! Red Canary readers evaluated 16 emerging tech companies from Waterloo Region and the surrounding area. See how they fared.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that more Canadian CEOs come from R&D than their stateside counterparts. What’s your CEO’s alma discipline?
One of RIM's top executives talks about preserving quality in the face of explosive growth, shares the secret of great developer/tester relationships and talks about the company's unique perk.
Speakers include private-sector executives and public officials from across Canada, tackling topics from cloud computing and virtualization through energy conservation and the emergence of green-mandated executive positions.
Are SMBs the pistons driving economic recovery? Many say yes -- and just as many say no. The question here is, do you think you'd succeed if you started your own tech company?
A potential buyer wants to see your startup's code before they will dig into their very deep pockets for an acquisition, but you're competing against them for several huge, late-stage deals. What tack do you take?
In this post: Canada third best for entrepreneurial biz. Crunching megadata in minutes. Some senior execs get hired on a whim. Early startup exits -- the new norm? 50 product managers with something to say. Online branding tips for execs.
Suzanne Williams gleans more information on a parachute executive program run by Ontario Centres of Excellence.
The founder and CEO of Ottawa's T-base communications turned her disability into opportunity, winning the 2009 Sara Kirke award for Women Entrepreneurship in the process.
The OCE may well be the single most active early stage investor in Canada at the moment, says Suzie Williams, and she praises the idea of an 'embedded executive' program for young tech companies.
Hiring sales people from the competition always seems like a no-brainer, but there are many pitfalls with this hiring strategy, says Lee Salz.
70% of all corporate change efforts fail, says author and CEO Peter Bregman. Why? Because leaders too often dictate change instead of directing it.
Remember re-engineering, management by objectives, service-oriented architecture, kaizen and other trendy fads that flamed out? What management philosophy would like you to add to that pile?
Suzie issues a warning about how interpretations of Ontario's Emerging Technologies Fund could hinder cash-positive startups by tying them to onerous terms from matching VC funds.
Can you define your company's raison detre in 140 characters or less? Try it, says Paul Marshall, then ask your executives to do the same. What comes up might help your business.
We don't trust big companies anymore, says Peter Bregman. And that means opportunities for small, personable companies who do the little things -- like pick up the phone. In Peter's opinion "Trust is the new competitive advantage."
A startup CFO shares his thoughts on the need for community building and his company's approach. His challenge? Deliver value to predominately offline customers, and engage them via a number of online channels.
CEO Peter Bregman suggests that instead of exhausting yourself on a daily job search, you spend only 1 or 2 hours as an active searcher, and the rest of your time participating in your community and doing social things that you enjoy.
A conference for Southwestern Ontario CIOs and senior information technology managers. April 1st, 2009.