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Oct 19, 2011

Ken Tencer to speak at upcoming Small Business Summit

Ken Tencer will be speaking at the upcoming Small Business Summit, hosted by The Globe and Mail Report on Small Business in partnership with Achilles Media. The Small Business Summit is a one-day event, geared to entrepreneurs, to kick-start small or medium enterprises and help give them a leg-up to the next level.

The program boasts an itinerary of specialized keynote speakers, workshops and networking opportunities to give professional insight to entrepreneurs. Learn more or register at www.smallbusiness-summit.ca.

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Aug 17, 2011

American Express Open Forum Book Review – The 90% Rule

Originally published as – Guru Review: The 90% Rule
by Matthew E. May , Founder, Shibumi Creative Works
August 16, 2011

From time to time I run across a book that is under the radar. Maybe it’s a niche book, a vanity book, a book that for whatever reason doesn’t fit the traditional model, or is self-published. As more and more authors choose to self-publish—some estimate that as high as 50 percent of the 11,000 business titles published annually are now self-published—more and more you can’t ignore the category, because some really good stuff falls into that bucket. And sometimes, simply because the book is off the radar, you don’t discover it until well after it’s been published.

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Jul 12, 2011

Driving Innovation in Your Organization – The Four Ps of Innovation

Michael Mitchell is president of a Chicago-based Mitchell Innovation + Research. As a consultant in innovation and market research for top corporations, he has had a lot of experience determining what prevents companies from becoming more effective innovators.

In a recent white paper written for the American Management Association, Mitchell identifies four key conditions a company must put in place to achieve results from their innovation efforts. He calls them “The 4 Ps of Innovation”: Priority, Plan, People and Process.

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