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• Federal contracts (Jan. 29 - Feb. 4)
  IBISKA Telecom Inc. 130 Albert St. Description: Informatics professional services Buyer: PWGSC $6,699,403 Fujitsu Consulting (Canada) Inc. ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Monday, Feb. 13: -The standing committee on Human Resources met in camera to discuss committee business and consider its draft report: "A ...
• How the feds can spur tech commercialization
  By Stephen Hurwitz Consider this: a successful innovation economy requires not just innovative ideas and the research and development to develop ...
• A shared voice is stronger than a single voice
  On the whole, talk of how mergers are better for the business community, how bigger is better and how we need to speak with one voice is all nice ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Monday, Feb. 6:-The Prime Minister left for a five day official visit to China from Feb. 7 to 11. A number of business people representing ...
• Eclipsing the memories of Nortel
  By Tony Patterson Nortel's business problem was two-fold. It failed to capitalize on advances in its own shop. For instance, the tech team had a ...
• Eye on the Hill
  Both the House of Commons and the Senate resumed on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, and Tuesday, Jan. 31, respectively. Sunday, Jan. 29: ...
• Employee engagement: using your ears and their ‘I's'
  by Mike Martin If you are having these discussions, then the fact is that you have probably lost the attention of your employees. The real ...
• The boom and bust of IT centralization
  By Christopher Smith There are two separate cycles that help explain how this works. The first is an overview of the basic long-term pattern ...
• National ambition
  The Telus director recently spoke with Fenix Solutions Inc. CEO Jennifer MacKinnon, who writes a monthly column, Ottawa Women of Wonder, to ...
• Leadership and its role in becoming an ‘employer...
  by Craig Dowden These organizations are recognized as "best-in-class" by its employees. Having a committed and engaged workforce is a competitive ...
• Local tech firms profit from Avaya's Nortel acquisition
  by Doug Watt "Canada is a very large geography; you need a program that will allow you to leverage the channel partners," says Renzo Dipasquale, ...
• Tech's buzz fades in Ottawa
  By Tony Patterson At Queen's Park, until the recent re-election, there was a Ministry of Research and Innovation. MRI, in fact, has ceased to be, ...
• Engineering workplace values
  She recently spoke with Fenix Solutions Inc. CEO Jennifer MacKinnon, who writes a monthly column, Ottawa Women of Wonder, to profile and ...
• National science vision prioritizes big projects
  By Tony Patterson First, it wasn't written by Tom Jenkins, chair of OpenText and of the panel that worked on the study. It was written by a team ...
• Beware the million-dollar cheque
  To build the product from concept through to minimum viable product and to the point where a small number of customers can use the product, the ...
• Rising stars to watch
  As part of the first-ever Ottawa Entrepreneur Week, held from Nov. 14 to 20, OCRI selected several local companies with unique business models, ...
• OCRI needs more than new leadership
  This is a guy running a hundred-million-dollar private company heading for a billion. He's still young but he was here in the city's heyday, a ...
• Breaching academia's ivory towers
  By Jason Flick To be honest, I think that Canadian figure is optimistic. I would love to hear examples of productive relationships between ...
• Profiting from open data
  by Christopher Smith Open data portals are websites where anyone with an Internet connection can download government data sets covering many ...
• I get by with a little help from my friends
  by Craig Dowden While such drive and determination are important to entrepreneurs, my research indicates they are not the strongest predictors of ...
• Business improvement areas find new voice, funding,...
  by Kate Chappell Dubbed the Greater Ottawa Business Improvement Area Association, GoBIA is attempting to improve communication amongst the small ...
• Avoiding social media snake oil salesmen
  Most of us want nothing but the truth. In business, the truth lowers our risks and increases our efficiency. And when I think of the surge of ...
• Government IT networks prepare to grow up
  by Christopher Smith The department will reduce the number of government data storage centres from 300 to 20, consolidate more than 100 separate ...
• People on the Move / Hats Off (Week of Sept. 26)
  PEOPLE ON THE MOVEDonald Simonds has been made a partner of Tierney Stauffer LLP. Mr. Simonds specializes in residential real estate law and has ...
• Seven money rules for retirement
  by Gordon Powers Most respondents, admitting they don't feel very comfortable when it comes to dealing with money, want to see personal finance ...
• The real size of Ottawa’s office market
  by John Seymour True, one may struggle with details such as the minimum size requirement (at least 20,000 square feet) or determining the ...
• Zarlink’s performance warrants higher bid
  by Anima Popli The offer was made on July 20, 2011. Zarlink Semiconductor shares jumped from $2.39 to $3.60 on July 20, according to the adjusted ...
• Tech championship heads back to school
  These outdated perspectives are further aggravated by student and faculty cultures that take a dim view of capitalism, scorn profit as a motive, ...
• Finding Ottawa’s niche in the global gaming world
  While the absence of a major anchor studio hurts the sector locally, industry officials say business is burgeoning."It's growing, it's bubbling," ...