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50 articles on Applying Intuition.
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Client’s Challenging Situation: Ontario Hydro, the Canada legacy that delivered electricity from Ontario’s Niagara hydro-electric generation for so many years, was dismantled as the 21st century…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: 20 years ago, in the early days of Canadian electricity deregulation, pricing data for the Hourly Ontario Electricity Price [HOEP] was difficult to…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A friend who owned a family business, in the energy sector, needed CEO-level help during a particularly challenging time. Scope of the Problem…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: One of our software clients, in the energy sector, was losing money providing core energy management services. Core energy management services included: Scope…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A family business friend was planning annual strategic planning sessions. She wanted to hold a special workshop to initiate discussion of annual corporate…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: While touring a family-business friend’s manufacturing operation, we learned that the company was paying large electricity power factor penalties. Scope of the Problem…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: We invested in a start-up energy appliance company. When we arrived, the company had a great vision but was in a crisis. The…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: A local tech start-up built a prototype device to perform assembly line measurements. While the prototype functioned properly at slow assembly line speed…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: Representatives of a Northern Ontario municipality approached us to see if we would respond to an RFP. The government of Ontario was providing…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client, a high-market-share manufacturing organization, wanted to inspire its employees. Scope of the Problem: The culture at our client’s workplace was laced…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: We were providing strategic planning services to one of our clients. During our SWOT discussions, we learned that our client had entered U.S.…
Rick Baker
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Client’s Challenging Situation: Our client, a manufacturer, had a specialized bottling process. They required a custom-built automated bottling assembly line. They decided to build rather than…
Rick Baker
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