Strategic Management

Strategic management in BC: it can be as simple as motivating your employees or as challenging as differentiating your business in a crowded BC marketplace. Develop your management style and strategy with how-to articles, tips from business experts, profiles of successful companies, and news from BC's robust business community.

Big Corporate Sloth Killed Canpages

Canpages falls victim to corporate hubris.

North Shore Credit Union Nets New Market

Local banking chain successfully uses "blue-ocean" strategy to swim when their traditional market sank.

How Do You Know When to Hire?

If you're thinking about growing your business, hiring help is an important step toward success.

Small Companies Competing in the Big Leagues

Advice for small companies competing with the big guys.

Getting Creative in a Business Crisis

Surviving a financial crisis with strong relationships and creative thinking.

Lone Wolf Syndrome: Starting a Business Alone

One person with an idea is not a business, says Tony Wanless.

The Value of a New Business Acceptance Framework

Discerning good business from good enough business.

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Decision Making

Arriving at decisions in the right way can increase your productivity and make you much happier in your work.

Scaling Your Business: From Good to Great

How to get your big break by being ready to scale up.

Controlling Your Idea Output

Idea Hamster's Check List

Creating a Working From Home Policy

Giving your staff flexibility, freedom, and trust.

How Royalty Can Help the BC NDP

Maybe the New Democrats should consider Royal Doulton figurines.


Getting Business Talent to Vancouver Island

The challenges of attracting talent and capital to Vancouver Island companies.

Creating Successful Business Partnerships

The lessons we can learn from a failed business partnership.

How to Welcome New Employees

Tips for making your new recruits feel at home.

Parsing Blocked Calls: Ignore or Answer?

Answering the burning question, Should we ignore private callers?

Learning To Know What You Don't Know

Three tips to know what you don't know.

Avoiding Wrongful Termination Claims

How to deal with an employee undergoing a personal crisis.

When Change Equals Business Growth

How disruptive change can be a growth opportunity.

Vanoc's Damage Control

Vanoc's covert operations in the age of Wikileaks.

MEC's Elegant Email Solution

As a company grows, its methods of communication must grow accordingly.

Do I Need to Be Green In B2B?

Green is becoming as important as better, faster, cheaper.

Mergers & Acquisitions II: Maximizing Value

A career's worth of M&A lessons.

Do you like networking at events?

Do you like networking at events?

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