Ottawa, January 20, 2010... Celestica wishes to identify innovative organizations developing technologies, services and capabilities which are a strategic match with its emerging Centre of Excellence strategy. The Centre of Excellence strategy is being driven out of Celestica's Toronto location and is focused on scaling and sustaining innovation in electronics. Read More: http://www.cata.ca/Media_and_Events/Press_Releases/cata_pr01201003.html

The Joint Review Panel gave a green light to the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project, but omitted to include a wide-area fiber optics network in its recommendations. Contact: Emily Boucher, Media Adviser at eboucher@cata.ca Ottawa, ON - January 5, 2010 - The 16.2 billion dollar Mackenzie Gas Project was given a go-ahead last December 30th by the Joint Review Panel - an independent body with a mandate to evaluate the potential impacts of the proposed project on the environment and lives of ...

Performance Management is a critical business issue that encompasses virtually all enterprises in every industry sector. While there have been some studies that define "best practices" in managing performance, there is no definitive research that correlates specific practices with superior strategic, competitive, operational, and financial outcomes. This first-ever global study examining performance management practices in private and public sector organizations has been led and developed ...

Foundations Of Sand: Why Ecademy Has A Decided Advantage As The Social Network Market Leader (Ecademy Profile) “The social network community is on the verge of a monumental shift in which many of the networks that are in existence today will not be around tomorrow. By evolving beyond their technological origins, the core survivors will avoid the fate of the early lights, who like SixDegrees.com are destined to fade into historic insignifigance in much the same manner that CP/M ceded to ...

“I stated that the worst thing a purchasing person can do when using an RFP to buy professional services is to exclude a project budget. Immediately, a rebuttal was offered, “But if I give them the budget,” stated the attendee, “they are all just going to come in at that budget.” He was right. But he failed to recognize that as a distinct advantage for both the vendor and the purchaser. When everyone’s price is the same, the buyer can compare expertise and value across a consistent ...

“Regardless of the moniker, the majority of government initiative elemental roots can be traced back to the New Public Management (NPM) ideology in which efficiency, accountability, decentralisation and marketisation are the main components or drivers (J.E. Lane, Public Sector Reform: Only deregulation, privatization and marketisation, Public Sector Reform, 1997). Since the early 80s the NPM “philosophy” has been viewed as the vehicle for “redefining managerial and governance practices in ...

shippingworkz is an industry specific opportunity and networking portal designed for the maritime and transport industry. In essence, shippingworkz is the first site of its kind to combine the power of the internet for use as both a networking tool and for linking talent with leading job opportunities. “it workz for you” is a critical part of our message. Why? It is designed for you. shippingworkz is designed with the end-user in mind. Upon registration (it is Fast, Free and Easy – ...

I was recently asked to provide a contextual point of reference that would assist the uninitiated public in understanding the reasons why the GoC’s Shared Services program has become such a contentious issue. The Answer was Baseball! Rather than getting into a complicated dissertation of the differences between an agent-based model versus an equation-based model where the prescribed processes reflect and therefore adapt to stakeholder characteristics and objectives, I tried to think of ...

In yet another example of the value of collaboration over compliance the Commonwealth of Virginia was ranked alongside the States of Washington and Utah as a top performer in the PEW Center’s Grading the States 2008 report. According to the PEW organization’s web site the report, which is designed to assess the “quality of management in the 50 states,” focuses on four key areas of government practice. The four areas that are assessed include: Money How states manage fiscal resources, ...

Yesterday's post regarding the role that associations are playing in undermining their own efforts to effect positive and sustainable change in the Government of Canada's procurement policy is quite telling. Distributed widely through a variety of channels, readers were in some cases "passionate" in their comments. One such example came from an industry veteran who stated, "Why does someone not go to the Opposition who control the Committee's and force some public testimony. PWGSC ...

In an excerpt from a December 13th post in the Procurement Insights Blog titled The Bands of Public Sector Supplier Engagement (see below) I introduced the concept of the supplier heirarchy (which also exists within the private sector). Question: What are your thoughts regarding the heirarchy concept? As a supplier how do you respond to or navigate within the framework of current purchasing environments? Blog Excerpt: “To really leverage vendor partnerships, solution providers need an ...

As with any well researched article that is offered up for public review (and scrutiny), one can never really anticipate the ultimate reaction and therefore impact a particular piece will have on its readers. In fact to be truly effective and meaningful, the predalictions of a mass audience while understood, have to become secondary to the core principles being presented. In essence writing is not a popularity contest, but an exercise in providing both a different and unique lens through ...

The Socially Responsible Procurement Practice: Moving Beyond Social Consciousness (enterprising non-profits Profile) “The question this raises is quite simply what set of circumstances will elevate green procurement from a nice to do “boutique” status to a more meaningful (and essential) element of a sound purchasing strategy? At the risk of answering my own question, I do not think that green procurement in and of itself will achieve this status, nor do I believe that it is a ...

As a follow-up to my post from earlier this week, I am pleased to present Part 2 of the 2 part Greening of Procurement Series: It’s Not Easy Being Green! For those of you who would like to delve even deeper into the factors that are shaping both public and private sector sustainability strategies, including case studies on companies such as Kodak and Ford, you can purchase ($100) my white paper titled The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement ...

The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement Practices (White Paper) Who Can Benefit from this Paper? Anyone and everyone who has an interest in the issues organizations as well as individuals face in terms of implementing a sustainable purchasing program within their company. White Paper Excerpt from The Greening of Procurement Cannibals with Forks? “In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for ...

Sustainability Facts and Fiction: Linking Green Idealism and Practical Business Application “In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, By John ...

“In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, By John Elkington (Capstone Publishing, Oxford, 1997) Do Cannibals With Forks Constitute Progress? So ...