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How do Canadian business leaders rate Canada’s innovation environment and factors shaping business strategies related to innovation? This briefing compares the views of Canadian business leaders with those of 16 international competitors.
Briefing
| 10 pages |
January 2012
Daniel Munro
| The Conference Board of Canada
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Join Paul Sullivan and The Conference Board of Canada for Becoming a Clutch Hitter: Secrets to Peak Performance, a 60-minute webinar that will provide new insights into how top performers succeed under pressure. Paul Sullivan is a performance expert and author of Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t—a highly-acclaimed book that presents the secrets of peak performance and shows that being clutch is a learned skill. In this session, Paul will discuss how you can teach your employees to discover these traits within themselves and apply them to their day-to-day experiences in the workplace, resulting in a workforce that is prepared to produce and one that feels more engaged with the organization.
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January 2012
| The Conference Board of Canada
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How to Turn Disillusioned or Hostile Shareholders into Supporters of Your Long-Term Growth Strategies and Decisions, and Boost Your Stock Price.
Recorded Webinar
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January 2012
Conference Board Inc., New York
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While waiting for the clouds to part over worldwide economies, small and midsize businesses can do much to bring greater rigor to their short-term forecasts and eliminate costly errors.
Executive Action
| 7 pages |
January 2012
Howard Muson
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Technology, media and telecommunications–what are the big trends for 2012? Forecasting the future always presents challenges, especially at a time of rapid development, integration and change. The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present a special webinar that showcases Deloitte Research’s annual Predictions report on the trends in technology, media and telecommunications (TMT). This 60-minute session will feature Duncan Stewart, Director of Research at Deloitte Canada and co-author of the report that explores the emerging trends that will have an impact on Canadian businesses in 2012. Duncan will provide a sneak peek of the predictions and answer your questions on what the new computing world has to offer. Backed by Deloitte’s 6,000-strong global TMT practice, Duncan is well-prepared to offer industry-leading research, information and insights.
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December 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present the webinar The Wisdom of Crowds featuring James Surowiecki, the foremost authority on how to harness the collective wisdom of your organization for competitive advantage. This 60-minute session will look at how you can leverage the knowledge and talent in your organization to drive business objectives. James Surowiecki is the author of The Wisdom of Crowds – Why The Many Are Smarter Than The Few And How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. He writes a twice-monthly financial column for The New Yorker, and has written for a broad range of other publications including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal.
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December 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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What happens when DIY meets Web 2.0? The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present the webinar The Maker Movement with Chris Anderson. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of Free and The Long Tail, will discuss his soon-to- be released book that explores the fast-growing “maker movement” –how the web’s innovation models are now extending to the real world, transforming the process of designing and making physical goods.
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November 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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For CEOs in China, the challenge of sustainability was ranked higher than anywhere else in the world. But how will business meet this challenge?
Executive Action
| 11 pages |
November 2011
Anke Schrader
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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A series of interviews related to The Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2011 makes clear what is highest on the minds of CEOs. Here, they talk about the leaders who have inspired them—and who have served as cautionary figures.
Executive Action
| 9 pages |
November 2011
Martin Cohen
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Change is the one constant in today’s volatile public sector environment. And now, as the public sector faces even more fiscal restraint, employees are being asked to do more with less. This Conference e-Proceedings brings together leaders and practitioners from various public departments and agencies to discuss change models that work in the public sector, ways to maintain performance during a major transformation, process redesign, the next generation of workers, social media as a driver of change, and ways to deliver better service to citizens.
Conference e-Proceedings
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November 2011
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As a follow-up to The Conference Board CEO Challenge™ 2011: Fueling Business Growth with Innovation and Talent and The Conference Board CEO Challenge 2011: Mid-Markets, Fred Keller—CEO of Mich.-based Cascade Engineering—shares his thoughts on the issues.
Executive Action
| 6 pages |
November 2011
Martin Cohen, Carole Walden
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Social media are changing the way your organization works internally and how it communicates with stakeholders. This Conference e-Proceedings features best practice and case study material from public sector organizations that have successfully implemented a social media strategy. You’ll learn about the basics of social media integration, ways to overcome common public sector social media challenges, crowdsourcing for engagement, privacy and emergency management, and methods for measuring the effect of social media.
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November 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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The implications of social media in the workplace—for product development, go-to-market strategies, customer relations, corporate branding, and recruiting—are enormous. Why then are so many senior executives reluctant to take the plunge?
Executive Action
| 7 pages |
October 2011
Rebecca L. Ray
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Most organizations realize the importance of participating in social media but do not have a formal plan on how to make the most of it. This report discusses specifics and best practices for planning a social media strategy.
Executive Action
| 6 pages |
October 2011
Sheri Rothman
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present a special webinar featuring Tim Harford, renowned behavioural economist, author, Financial Times columnist and BBC radio presenter. In this webinar, Tim shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives.
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September 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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An analysis of the responses to the 2011 CEO Challenge survey from the 114 U.S. firms with revenues of under $1 billion.
Report
| 29 pages |
September 2011
Martin Cohen
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present a special webinar featuring Bob Lutz, the former Vice-Chairman of General Motors. Listen to this webinar and hear more about how in the course of his unparalleled 47-year career, Lutz has left an indelible mark on all three of the big U.S. automakers.
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August 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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This report explores the progression of women in senior management positions over the last 22 years, highlights challenges women still face in the workplace, and suggests practices for overcoming these barriers.
Report
| 32 pages |
August 2011
Louise Chenier, Elise Wohlbold
| The Conference Board of Canada
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Following The Conference Board CEO Challenge survey, a number of CEOs volunteered to go “on the record” with The Conference Board to share their thoughts and challenges in more depth. This is a Q&A with the CEO of Michigan-based Brazeway.
Executive Action
| 6 pages |
August 2011
Marty Cohen, Michal Zdziarski
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Large and small developing countries have emerged as the new frontiers of the structural change ushered in by the rise of global production and supply networks.
Executive Action
| 7 pages |
August 2011
Ronald E. Berenbeim, Mallika Shakya
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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