The Osborne Group spent June 8, 2016 at the Toronto Entrepreneurs Symposium and Tradeshow talking to many entrepreneurs. We asked them “What drives value in your business?” To keep the discussion somewhat focused we gave entrepreneurs the list of eight value drivers...

James Branch Cabell describes the optimist as “one who proclaims that they live in the best of all worlds; and the pessimist as one who fears this is true”. I think he was trying to explain how somehow in this world of confused politics, economies and religions there...

Early in my career I had a craving or longing for something that was missing or lacking in my life.  At the time I was working for a company that developed software to run on the Unix platform.  As a marketing coordinator I needed to understand and promote the...

It’s playoff time in hockey and basketball. The long season, extending over 80 games, is capped by 4 rounds of playoffs, with the eventual winners having to win 16 games by playing in another 20 to 28 games.  There are star players on each team but in the end the...

Not too long ago I was “the girl who did the web stuff”. I was bounced between IT and Marketing as they argued where this “fad” of online marketing (as it was called back then) would fit best. Fast forward 10 years. Now I focus on helping companies develop integrated...

I don’t know which activity has more possible solutions available, those promising miracle cures to lose weight or miracle cures to increase business sales. Now I don’t promise any expertise on weight loss, but I did learn a long time ago that everything you do in...