Coffee chat with Alasidar Graham, a serial CIO who has worked with some very colorful CEO's and clients who are CEO's. Today I pick AG's brain to understand what some of the key challenges are in dealing with CEO's especially difficult personalities and how to ensure success.

President Trump will invoke tariffs on Canada in March 2025. I discuss how Canada can respond productively to these tariffs and what we should do to diversify our trade risk.

Writing a winning business plan to help you navigate your business through many stages of growth means knowing what your goals are. This video describes all the necessary elements of a winning business plan factoring in whether you are going to bootstrap your company or search for private equity or bank financing . Please support this content by subscribing to my channel. If you are interested in reading my book, please click here: https://www.amazon.ca/Move-Employee-Y...

Today we are discussing Managed Services in the area of Data Virtualization using the Denodo Solution. Why should organizations have to build more data warehouses and data lakes when they can leverage off of their existing investments? Why should business leaders have to wait weeks or even months to access their data in a way that allows them to answer key questions that are time-critical to their organizations today?

We explain Data Mesh, Logical Data Fabric and Data Virtualization from the perspective of the Denodo solution and how it delivers incredible ROI from both cost savings and driving revenue faster by democratizing data and putting it into the hands of business leaders.

Today, Sherrie Farnum and I are chatting about Managed Services and why they are so valuable to companies that spend a lot of money on software. Managed Services can save companies about 10% of their spend on the low end and up to 30% on the high end. Delivering value really quickly and demonstrating cost savings or risk reduction is critically important on how Knowsys differentiates itself from other management consulting firms.

In this show I'll discuss how and where to get inspiration to determine what kind of business you should initiate based on my own experience as well as best practices.

Many people want to start a business but may not know where to start or what kind of business they should focus on. This episode will give you inspiration and practical ideas about how to make your business a reality......

I'm covering Chapter 1 from Move from Employee to CEO of Your Own Destiny. This show covers understanding yourself and your circumstances to determine if it's the right time to start your business.