Got Bobbleheads for Business Buddies?

Here is an important question for all you CEOs out there: – just who are your key business buddies? Are they your high school or college friends, your past work associates, your current corporate directors, your executives that work for you, or that tax accountant / auditor on your account who all too many of [...]

IRAP R&D Program Runs Out of Money

I saw it coming. Now it has happened. As foretold in my recent open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) has again abruptly halted accepting new requests for support. Unfortunately, IRAP program suspensions are becoming regular annual affairs. Only back in business for [...]

‘DO IT!’ Article Wins Sugartone Prize

[NEWS FLASH] According to the announcement posted on the Bloggertone website on March 24th, 2010, Biz Money Matters has been declared one of the winners of the Sugartone business article contest having submitted the article ‘Timely FREE Advice for Biz Owners: DO IT!’ which received 32 votes on the B2B social media site BizSugar! Here [...]

Dear PM Harper: Help SME Business Now!

March 19, 2010 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Leader of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Southwest AB Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa  K1A 0A2   [Sent by email to: pm@pm.gc.ca] Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Re: Please Help iSME Business Now! Canadians [...]

Debt Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Today’s online newspapers have real drawbacks. First, they don’t let you to scan all the news. Second, all too often important articles in the print edition never make it to the paper’s website. And let’s not forget how fewer and fewer people are getting real newspapers delivered these day. As a result, there is a [...]

[Recession Recovery] ‘VW’ Ride Coming?

“What kind of recovery does the group expected now?” – this was the key business question asked by a Partner in a Toronto based mid-sized accounting firm in the group discussion phase of the TEC Trusted Advisor meeting I attended earlier this week. Here’s what came back from the employment lawyer, commercial landlord, retirement pension [...]

How to Deal with the ‘Great Recession’

They say the ‘Great Recession’ is over – I say not! There’s plenty of healing that still needs to happen before the majority of us are going to start thinking we’re on the road to recovery. (Consider this question: just how much pleasure should you take when after being in a horrific car crash the [...]

Porsche: how hunter became prey

Europe is having its fair share of auto sector troubles right now and both Porsche and Volkswagen have been caught up in them. However, the really interesting sector news is about Porsche family firm politics and the downside of BHAGs. Read about their problems and how they could have avoided them…

Turnaround Recipe|fire the salesforce

There’s a cautionary tale for sales people and a recipe for turnaround success in the story of Descartes Systems Group (TSX: DSG). Descartes has gone: from (i) huge success, for once it was a high-flying stock that soared to $130 per share during the dot-com bubble; to (ii) almost total failure, where its share price [...]

Biz Bankruptcy Wave-Watch

I was on the phone mid this week speaking with an SVP in the Recovery & Reorganization (aka Bankruptcy & Insolvency in more plain speak) area of one of the major CA firms here in Toronto. What he had to say was that the tsunami of business bankruptcies has yet to break…

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