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A few posts back (here), I made a suggestion that government could do better to support the economy, including innovation by investing for its own selfish needs rather than by tinkering around the edges with tax incentives, loans, and other assorted forms of public largess.  I have to admit, this is one of the examples…

The unfolding public argument that was kicked off by Bank of Canada governor, Mark Carney, and abetted by federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, over the past weeks, continues.  The Globe and Mail contributes the National Bank’s latest view of the corporate cash hoarding situation. What’s especially rich about all of these indictments and apologies is–for…

Today’s Globe and Mail had an interesting article entitled Why are we training our arts grads to be baristas? The gist of it, for those who don’t want to read it, is a lament for non-practically trained (i.e., not business (under)grads or engineers) university graduates being shunted from productive higher-paying jobs in favour of those…

That used to be pejorative; a way to describe an unrepentant dreamer with no practical ability or interest.  Today, it might be good cause to pay $2-3K/day to that same person, who may in fact yet be an unrepentant dreamer.  A sign of the times. I have my head in the clouds–from time to time…

It must be tough to be a senior executive businessman/woman in a Canadian enterprise these days.  After toughing out the single-lightest recessionary period in the world between 2008 and 2012, in an economy that is chugging along at a tepid but “expected” rate for its horsepower, you have to endure the criticisms of economists, of…

I’m a panelist for “The Case for Cloud Computing in Government” at the Canadian Cloud Council CloudLAUNCH conference in mid-October, which got me to thinking.  In mid-thought about why government needs to pursue a cloud-based IT development strategy, an idea about government’s v. the private sector’s role (and shortcomings) in Canadian productivity unfolded.  It was…

I had a thought about innovation and, after a quick Google search, think it’s fertile ground for a fascinating PhD thesis.  My hypothesis is that research would show a compelling correlation between a person’s “innovativeness” and his/her propensity for belief or faith. I’m not just talking about spirituality, although that is certainly one expression of…

This piece (Symantec admits antivirus source code filched in unnoticed 2006 hack attack) in the Globe and Mail today is ironic in and of itself.  The admission that Symantec continued to sell PCAnywhere knowing that code had been stolen and the security compromised ought to generate at least one or two entrepreneurial lawyer-disgruntled customer combinations…

This just in from the OECD, what should have been obvious to anyone paying attention since about 1983:  OECD calls time on trickle down theory (from the Globe & Mail).  The OECD woke up and realized that widening income disparities might actually put the lie to the theory that a “rising tide raises all boats”…

Maybe nobody’s noticed (maybe nobody cares), but there is a tension between creation and evolution that goes on in business even without invoking the giant scientific-belief system debate.  And, it permeates right down to the educational process for business and organizational administration.  What’s worse is that unlike the much larger debate, where there are clear…

I went to the OCRI execTALKS Business Forum yesterday morning to see Deloitte’s Bill Currie speak about their latest study and recommendation for the widening productivity gap that’s been all the rage in the media of late.  First off, the study and its results were comprehensive, and Deloitte has done an excellent job of relating…

When I was eight years old–about a month from turning nine, I went to a hockey school in Toronto for a week. For the week that followed, my mother toured me through all the kid-friendly parts of Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe that were her old stomping grounds. We ended up at Fort Erie and…