Lean by Design

An article published in the NY Times today, deals with some recent changes at AOL. The internet Service Provider has been experiencing a serious erosion of its Netscape.com user base (from 15.4 to 11.4 users ) over the past year alone, due to a multitude of factors, including; the lack of a popular Voice communication [...]

The NewYork Times published an excellent article the other day on the growth of Community networks in the US, and their potential implications. The article primarily dealt with the many wireless broadband networks that are being sponsored by municipal governments around the country, both in rural areas as well as metropolitan areas. It cited the [...]

Two and a half years ago, upon returning to the ‘great white north’, and following a nearly 10 year period of working around the globe, I had the good fortune to have my office located near the Nortel Advanced Technology lab at the Carling campus in Ottawa. On the way to grab my daily coffee, [...]

Check this out. A report in Forbes magazine compared the tax regimes of countries all over the world. The results were a little surprising to me. I always thought that Canadian taxes were much worse than that experienced in the US. Now, be careful here, because NewYork is chosen as the example state, and not [...]