Accounting for value: Financial lessons from Lean
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In a 2011 white paper published by the Internal Federation of Accountants, the authors present a vision of the professional...
The rise of the user fee
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For the last few years, governments around the world have been preoccupied with cutting costs to strike a better balance...
Attracting and retaining top talent
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Compensation is often raised as a key tool that can either aid or hinder the attraction and retention of executive...
Mining for corporate social responsibility
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The Canadian mining industry is responsible for over 4.5 percent of the nation's GDP. It has contributed to opening up...
Five factors for managed print services
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Governments throughout Canada are facing a number of challenges, from reducing operational costs to meeting sustainability goals to procurement reform....
Foresight: Harvesting shared wisdom
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What can you say about the future of long range public policy planning that hasn't been captured on Twitter?
A time to reassess government’s role?
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With an annual deficit of $36.2 billion, the federal government is looking once again to emulate earlier efforts to curb...
Mash-ups meet Crown copyright
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In Canada, it seems like any discussion of copyright quickly turns to the merits or demerits of mp3s, file sharing,...
High potential, low possibilities
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It now appears that Canada will emerge earlier than expected from the economic recession that has ravaged job markets around...
A quest for the truth: Probe before you investigate
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The spectre of wrongdoing within a department can send chills down the corporate spines of an organization.