Your business plan might include projections that your revenue will take you from being in the red to fully profitable within less than three years. That’s good.
There might be data that shows you could eventually expand your operations to serve customers at the other end of the world — customers...
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When businesses need a simple way to visualize “growth,” a tree is probably one of the first metaphors that spring to mind.
Trees sprout up seemingly out of nowhere, just like a startup. They become tall, the way successful companies become pillars of their industry. Trees also develop branches,...
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If anyone should have confidence, it’s Hayley Wickenheiser. She was the first woman to play full-time professional men’s hockey in a position other than goalie. She’s an executive with the Toronto Maple Leafs. She’s an Olympic gold medalist.
Yet despite all those achievements — and despite...
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Few Canadian small and medium-sized businesses will map out a complete sustainability strategy in a single session. The sheer magnitude of issues — such as those threatening our climate — can make it difficult to determine all the actions a company should take, and in what order.
That’s why Bina...
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The Canadian retail sector is filled with coupons that customers neglected to use on their next purchase.
Among airlines, hospitality firms and restaurants, customers may redeem points they’ve earned but still take their business elsewhere.
You can offer a disgruntled customer a discount on their...
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When he published his debut The Tipping Point in 2000, Malcolm Gladwell compared the way social phenomena and ideas spread to an epidemic. As the world emerges from COVID-19, then, he may be the ideal person to explore how the pandemic will change the way we live, work and learn.
Speaking during...
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Several years ago, when he first proposed switching fluorescent bulbs with LED lights at TELUS, Geoff Pegg admits the reaction was a little skeptical — especially when he said the company might not see payback on the investment for up to seven years.
“The controllers looked at me and said, ‘That...
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For decades, a lot of the tools with which CIOs were expected to equip their organization's workforce were remarkably standardized.
New hires were often given space in a cubicle, and the IT department provided them a desktop PC with word processing or spreadsheet applications, a landline phone and...
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With a career that has spanned the worlds of oil and gas, real estate and aviation, the path that led Jackie Kankam to a major beauty brand may not be an obvious one. And yet, it may be the ideal place to continue her mission to grapple with the toughest environmental, sustainability and social...
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