To be recognized by your peers for your commitment to organizational excellence is a worthy celebration. By awarding those organizations most committed to economic progress, both for themselves and for the Canadian market as a whole, we all take a more prominent position and gain greater influence on the world stage. A prosperous Canada is [...]
If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will take you there. For some, “Strategy” and “Strategic Planning” is something that is done once a year which results in a report. Others think it is market position, operational effectiveness or an idea or business model. Strategy is choosing to perform different activities [...]
Lack of clear objectives: Nobody’s really sure what the project is about, much less are people agreed on it. Lack of risk management: Things go wrong that someone could easily have foreseen and then controlled to some degree or even prevented. No senior management ‘buy in’: Senior managers were never convinced and so never supported [...]
If one were to stage a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a modern corporate boardroom, chances are the most likely source of the “conscience of the king” would not be the company’s general counsel, but the chief compliance officer instead. Recently, the position of chief compliance officer has moved beyond the shadow of the general [...]
