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Job Hunting in the Ottawa Region
I have received numerous queries from Nortel friends impacted by recent events. For those asking about where to start and how to approach your job search, here is my advice: For finding senior...
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Fur Trading, Lumber, High Tech and Ottawa
Like fur trading and the lumber industry, the Ottawa high tech industry is well on its way into the local history books. For several years now, people around town have increasingly talked about...
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What do Companies do to Adapt to Economic Meltdowns?
Typically companies will focus on: Delivering what really matters to customers Eliminating all costs that add no or little value to customers Selling services previously provided for free Increasing...
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Nortel Shrinkage Continues… and Senior Executive Bonuses Expand
Current Staff Tally 30,000 – 1,800 (announced in 2008) – 3,200 (announced Feb 25th) = 25,000 Of the 3,200 – 1,000 in Ottawa are at risk according to the Ottawa Citizen. The Citizen reported on a rather...
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Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation –“Next Generation of Jobs Fund” a...
With all the talk of government stimulus and spending it is disappointing to see the government not using programs that have already been approved and rolled-out. Last year, the Ontario Government’s...
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ex-High Techies in the Federal Government
After this blog entry I was immediately asked about the challenges those ex-techies who joined the Federal government have found. Here is a quick summary of what I’ve been told: Being...
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Ottawa 2.0 – The Flint Michigan of Canada’s High Tech World?
The Citizen published an article on the key role Nortel has had on the Ottawa high tech market, noting that there are no replacements for Nortel waiting in the wings to step-in to the void. Here is a...
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The Death of Canadian R&D Spending
The 2008 report on Canadian R&D spending from Research Infosource identifies the following top 10 R&D spenders - Nortel $1.851B BCE $1.26B Magna $.725B Pratt and Whitney $.444B IBM $.377B...
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Nortel US Patents Granted 2007 – Ranked 68th
From the US Patent Office -Nortel was ranked 68th overall relative to US patent filings in 2007, details are shown in the table below. McKinsey recently published an article summarizing their analysis...
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Nortel Collapse and Kanata Future
“Nortel’s collapse could spell the doom for the industry and trigger an exodus of high-tech companies from north Kanata.” Posted in Business, Canada, Economy, General Interest, Government, Government...
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Nortel Folk – Take a Look at Lead to Win!
If you are currently working in Nortel, Mitel or any of the other local tech companies that are under stress and under the threat of downsizing, then you are probably thinking about your “Plan B”....
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Pharmaceuticals to Replace Telecom as Canada’s Top R&D Spenders?
RESEARCH Infosource released a report last week titled “Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders List 2009 Analysis“ Canada’s communications/telecom sector was the number one R&D spend – with...
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