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Client’s Challenging Situation: A long-term employee suddenly retired. The person had been responsible for leading IT enhancements, automating the processing of information, and the generation of…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: An Ontario manufacturer of custom equipment wanted to automate their family-business operations. Scope of the Problem: Over the years, our client’s clients wanted…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A high-tech entrepreneur was building a very novel, new product and wanted us to create custom software for that project. The entrepreneur wanted…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: An Eastern Canadian energy retailer had considerable expertise in electricity retailing and commodity management. However, it had little expertise in natural gas retailing.…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: An Eastern Canadian retail energy marketer was frustrated because efforts to procure natural gas supply were not taken seriously by major energy suppliers…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business was taking steps toward succession planning and business growth. They wanted to hold a special, invigorating strategic planning session. Scope…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A software client sent a note to us at 9:00PM on a summer evening. The note described a strange occurrence that could have…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A distressed leader of a SME contacted us to see if we could fix problems tied to an “abandoned” online software app. I…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business client wanted us to oversee [be the project manager for] the upgrading of their project management software when its supplier…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: Engineered projects present complications. For example, to perform a comprehensive review of a hospital’s energy-consuming equipment and build software to automate the engineering…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A successful family business provides onsite testing and servicing of equipment, protecting our environment. As the business grew, the amount of data it…
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A consulting client asked us to provide interim CEO services. The client was a family business, delivering engineering services to municipalities and commercial…
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