by Margaret Bawden | May 24, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
Innovation is a popular topic these days, usually discussed in the context of a business transformation or start-up. Recently I toured the Chagall Colour and Music exhibit at the Musee des Beaux Arts in Montreal and found it to be a great example of personal...
by David Bowden | May 10, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
I am a natural optimist who, not surprisingly, believes that most people are. But from time to time, an unexpected catalyst reactivates my positive outlook. I recently spent two weeks on a motorcycle trip across the American south and west. While there were numerous...
by John Alton | May 2, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
In my last blog, (February 2017, http://nexuscommunications.com/osborne-group/the-bottom-line-on-product-pricing/) I discussed the impact of increasing prices and how much business would have to be lost to be less profitable than if prices had not been raised. For...
by Christy DeMont | Apr 28, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
With all the recognition in recent days of the battle at Vimy Ridge in 1917, I have been thinking about my own trip to Vimy a few years ago. I didn’t go because I had relatives who fought and died there. I didn’t go because I am a war historian. I went because it...
by Bob Fisher | Apr 18, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
There’s lots of talk show and media chatter out there about Ontario’s electricity system – unfortunately lots of misinformation too. A good new “Backgrounder-January 2107” put out by Environmental Defense Canada presents original research done by Power Advisory...
by John Bielby | Apr 17, 2017 | Osborne Insights Blogs
Looking back over my career, I saw many different business models and strategic outcomes. The question of career experience and how a senior executive “fits” a particular business can vary from very well, to OK to not at all. Clearly one size in executive talent, does...