LSG in Media
Professor Critical of NHL Draft Strategy
Peter Tingling, SFU Assistant Professor
The Globe and Mail – June 24, 2010
Earlier this year, professor Peter Tingling opened an email from a senior member of the Detroit Red Wings and was promptly “taken to the woodshed” over his NHL Entry Draft study... (PDF Download)
Are We Ignoring the Lessons the Crisis Taught Us?
Feat. Robert Adamson, executive director CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance
and Risk Management at SFU's Segal Graduate
Business School
Financial Post – November 23, 2009
Louis Gagnon is worried. The associate professor of finance at Queen's School of Business has built a career in and around capital markets and risk management and he doesn't like what he's seeing today.
"It feels like we're getting back to normal and we may be missing an opportunity to implement reforms that could prevent this type of financial crisis from happening again."...(PDF Download | Link to Story | Link to CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management)
LSG's Industry Coucnil for Aboriginal Business (ICAB) Leadership Exchange
SFU News – November 19, 2009
Canada’s first leadership program to place senior executive officers at meetings on aboriginal reserves and get First Nations chiefs into executive suites kicked off earlier this month.
The Leadership Exchange program, created by SFU’s Learning Strategies Group (LSG) in partnership with the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business (ICAB), is the first to pair aboriginal and non-aboriginal business leaders so that they can experience each other’s work and cultural environments. The goal: to develop deeper business relationships based on mutual respect and understanding....(PDF Download | Link to Story)
Calculated Loss - How to Fire Employees
Peter Tingling, SFU Assistant Professor
BC Business – November 04, 2009
Software that tells you whom to fire – and when.
For the CEO who has everything, now there’s a software program that promises to take the guesswork out of downsizing. The logic behind Vancouver-based Octothorpe Software Corp.’s Amadeus.SRA “talent management” software is straightforward: in an organization of 500 employees, it would be easy to find three poor performers to let go, but with a staff of 20, losing the wrong three people could paralyze the company....(PDF Download)
Culture Swap to Build Better CEOs
Rick Colbourne, Executive Director, Learning Strategies Group
Business in Vancouver – September 22-28 2009 – Issue 1039
SFU business leadership program partnering aboriginal with non-aboriginal leaders to promote inter-cultural business understanding and expertise in B.C.
Daniel Shapiro, Dean, SFU Business
Business in Vancouver – September 2009
Since assuming the role of Dean of Simon Fraser University's faculty of business administration in the spring of 2008, Daniel Shapiro has worked to keep SFU business students at the forefront of issues facing business today. With students and businesses adopting new technologies at an ever-faster pace, it's no easy task. However, business students at SFU are being introduced to new concepts like crowd-sourcing and content aggregation. Shapiro's current research is the areas of corporate governance and determinants of foreign direct investment. BIV caught up with Shapiro to discuss his vision of the B.C. of tomorrow and the role that innovation has in helping the province rebound from the recession.
Canada Research Chairs – September 23, 2009
The Honorable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), annouced 181 Canada Research Chairs newly awarded or renewed in 45 Canadian Universities. LSG and SFU Business's Professor, Ian McCarthy re-appeared on this list. Ian's Canada Research Chair in Technology and Operations Research has been renewed for five years. Please click the links to read the formal announcement. (PDF Download - Article) (PDF Download - Canada Research Chairs List)
Peter Tingling, SFU Assistant Professor
National Post – September 22, 2009
It is comforting to think that the conditions that destroy organizations arise suddenly. After all, it is easier to forgive managers who fail to adapt to unprecedented situations or those that seem to occur without warning than to hold their feet to the fire. However, with few exceptions, most long-term change moves at glacial speed and telegraphs its existence well before it has substantive impact...(PDF Download)
Government of Canada Strengthens Aboriginal Business in B.C.
Western Economic Diversification Canada – June 30, 2009
Aboriginal communities across British Columbia will benefit from
federal government funding for joint ventures and business partnerships
aimed at strengthening economic opportunities for Aboriginal
businesses...(PDF Download)
Intuition Isn't a Substitute for Evidence-Based Decision Making
Peter Tingling, SFU Business Assistant Professor
National Post – April 21, 2009
Aboriginal communities across British Columbia will benefit from
federal government funding for joint ventures and business partnerships
aimed at strengthening economic opportunities for Aboriginal
businesses...(PDF Download)
Profitability – Business in Vancouver's Black Edition
Peter Tingling, SFU Assistant Professor
Business in Vancouver – April 2009 – The Black Edition
BIV’s colour series examines how businesses in B.C. are striving for excellence in four key areas: profitability (Black), sustainability (Green), investment (Blue) and philanthropy (White)...(PDF Download)
Opening New Doors; An MBA is a Ticket to Independence
Originally a qualification possessed by relatively few, the MBA has increasingly become a prerequisite for executive jobs. Despite the trend toward gender equity in many fields, the most senior corporate jobs in Canada are still disproportionately male. Women hold only 13% of board-level positions in FP 500 companies, while 40% of these businesses have no women on their boards....(PDF Download)
CBC Radio – January 30, 2009
On the January 30 & February 2 episode of Spark, Nora interviewed Ian McCarthy about mass customization. As promised, the full interview is here. Click above to listen.
National Post – December 18, 2008
Making the right decisions has long been the hallmark of superior performance - and never more important than now. Indeed, good decision making is as equally relevant to developing a solution for the current economic crisis as it is to the NHL draft. How we make decisions is not only the essence of management, but our ability to make good decisions is often the only difference between success and failure...(PDF Download)
Managers Want Tribes, Not Teams
National Post – November 28, 2008
In the past 20 years "teamwork" has become so cliché in organizations that every group is now a "team." Consultants and managers are constantly looking for improved "teamwork." I sometimes get called in to work with senior "management teams" after previous attempts have failed to create any more teamwork. As I survey the wreckage of well intentioned efforts, it seems obvious that many consultants and managers need a new way to think about what managers who want improved "teamwork" are really asking for...(PDF Download)
Layoffs: Deciding Who Stays and Who Goes
National Post – November 24, 2008
The litany of corporate downsizing announcements reflects the first response for many managers to negative conditions - batten down the hatches and cut staff in large numbers. This may not be a bad thing...(PDF Download)
Understanding Governance: IT Governance is a Complex Beast. We Take you Through Some of the Legislation, Standards, and Best Practices
Featuring Michael Parent, SFU Business Associate Professor
Backbone Magazine – May 5, 2008
You run a bank and you are in a quandary. A new technology is emerging
that will change the way customers interact with you; in the ’70s it
may have been ATM cards, now perhaps it’s contactless payments, but in
any case all the banks want to be first on the scene with this feature.
It is expected to make life more convenient for customers and lower
your business costs.
There are risks involved with deploying the
technology, though. The project may come in over budget, take too long
to implement, or the technology may be susceptible to fraud. How can
you quantify those risks? Plus, these aren’t the only risks you must
assess. There are dangers inherent in not implementing the technology,
including the possibility of losing customers to other banks and
finding your competitors can do business without investing as much
money. Your board of directors must weigh the technical and business
risks carefully and make a decision, but it can only do that properly
if the necessary intelligence is available from the computing
department.
Welcome to the world of IT governance, and specifically,
to the intersection of IT and corporate governance...(PDF Download)
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