Institute to release working paper on small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation on Feb 23

Join us as Roger Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity and Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management releases our working paper on small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

The event will be held on February 23, 8:00-10:30 am at The Royal Sutton Ballroom at The Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto.

Introducing Roger at the release will be Doug Brooks, FCGA, CEO of CGA Ontario.

At the release will be a panel consisting of a leading researcher on entrepreneurship and two CEOs of successful, innovative firms:

• Ajay Agrawal, Professor of entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity at the Rotman School
• Bud Morris, President of Canada’s Best Store Fixtures – a Profit Hot 50 company
• Harry Zarek, President & CEO of Compugen - one of Canada’s largest privately-owned IT services providers and PC systems integrators

This working paper is made possible by funding support from the Certified General Accountants of Ontario and the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation.

The event is free of charge, but spaces are limited.

Roger Martin to release Task Force’s 10th Annual Report on Nov. 15 in Toronto.

Join us as at the 10th annual report by Ontario’s Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity, and Economic Progress. In addition to a 10-year retrospective on Ontario’s economic progress, the report will set out an agenda for closing the innovation and prosperity gaps as the Ontario government begins its new mandate.

Joining Roger Martin will be experts on Ontario and international competitiveness, including;

• Donald Brean, Professor of Economics and Finance at the Rotman School of Management and Co-director of the G20 Research Group
• Elena Cherney, Editor, The Globe and Mail Report on Business
• Bill Currie, Partner, vice-chair of Deloitte Canada
• Todd Lee, Managing Director, Greater China Division, IHS Global Insight
• Felix Salmon, Finance and Economics blogger, Thomson-Reuters
• Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers

The event will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto’s Yorkville district, 8 am to Noon on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011.

Registration is $75 plus HST, and includes continental breakfast.

Space is limited. Register early.

Roger Martin and Jim Milway to speak at workshop on innovation and business strategy

You and your guests are invited to register, free of charge, for a morning workshop on the Insights from the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS) presented by Industry Canada, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and Institute for International Business @ Rotman.

The Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS) is a joint project by Industry Canada, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and Statistics Canada, which was initiated to better understand the market and policy factors that encourage or discourage the adoption of entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented business strategies. The aim of SIBS is to help the government develop policies to ensure Canada’s future economic competitiveness and prosperity. The purpose of the Oct 13th Workshop is to present the latest findings from the 2011 SIBS Report as well as engage the business community in discussing the survey results.

Registration check-in and breakfast will be available from 8:00 to 8:30am. At 8:30am opening remarks will begin.  Here is the complete agenda:

Insights from the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS) Workshop

8:00 to 8:30am Breakfast and Registration

8:30-8:45am Opening Remarks: Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U of Toronto; Academic Director, Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship @ Rotman; Chair, Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity; Author and; Corporate Director, Thomson Reuters, Research in Motion

8:45-9:00am MODERATOR:  Ignatius Horstmann, Professor of Business Economics and Co-Director, Rotman Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

9:00-9:30am Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS) Report Highlights

SPEAKERS:

Annette Ryan, Chief Economist, Industry Canada and André Downs, Chief Economist, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

9:30-10:00am Private sector perspective:  Lessons from “Survey of North American Business Leaders”

SPEAKER:

Bill Currie, Vice-Chair, Deloitte Canada, Americas Managing Director, Deloitte

10:00-10:15am Health Break

10:15-11:45am Panel: Implications of Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy Results

SPEAKERS:

Productivity & Innovation - Jeremy Leonard, Director, Research, Institute for Research on Public Policy
Manufacturing & Global Business - Jean-Michel Laurin Vice President, Global Business Policy, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters
Trade, Competitiveness & Innovation - Jim Milway, Executive Director, Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity and Executive Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

11:45am-noon Closing Remarks

The speaker biographies are posted at http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/oct13am-speakers 

TO ATTEND: There is no fee to attend but you must PRE-REGISTER ONLINE AT http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/oct13am-SIBSworkshop before 5pm on October 12.

Conference on Canada’s innovation imperative - 2011

The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity to release its annual Report on Canada’s innovation imperative.

The report will be released by the Institute’s Chairman, Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

It will articulate Canada’s competitiveness challenges as innovation challenges and will discuss the importance of the need for governments, businesses, and individuals to invest in the capabilities and polices to address these challenges.

It will inform the debate and deliberation on Canada’s innovation policies as the new federal government takes shape.

The morning will kick off with Roger Martin presenting the report. We’ll then hear reactions and observations from some of the leading Canadian thinkers on issues of prosperity, innovation, and competitiveness: 

• John Armstrong, Managing Partner, CAPCO.
• Betty DeVita, President, MasterCard Canada.
• Rupert Duchesne, President & CEO, Groupe Aeroplan Inc.
• P. Thomas Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation.
• Rory McAlpine, Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, Maple Leaf Foods Inc.

The event will be moderated by Don Newman, Chair of Canada 2020 and Senior Columnist at iPOLITICS.ca.

Join them and your colleagues at an enlightening and enlivening morning. The cost is $95 plus HST.

Please do so quickly. This event has sold out in years past and this year will be no exception.

Breakfast and registration will be available from 7:30 a.m.
For directions to the venue, please click here.

If you have any questions or if you are HST exempt, please contact Tamer Azer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 416-920-1921 x228

Happiness as a goal for public policy

Reduced rate of $100 available to students, retirees, and unemployed.

While economists can offer recommendations to policy makers on how to improve our economic output, we’re not as far along in developing recommendations for improving people’s happiness. This conference will take stock of our existing research on happiness and consider whether governments should have happiness as an objective for public policy and, if so, what policies they should adopt.  Join us for our full day conference as we hear from leading researchers in this field and consider findings from new Canadian research carried out by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.

Topics to be discussed at the Conference:

• Determinants of Happiness in Canada: “Explaining Geographical Variation in Happiness in Canada”
• Approaches to Public Policy from the Happiness Literature
• Specific Public Policies to Promote Happiness
• Are Rising Real Incomes and Living Standards a Necessary Condition for the Continued Happiness of Canadians?
• Perspectives on Happiness as an Objective for Public Policy

For the full agenda please, click here.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Mel Cappe, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Research on Public Policy and former Clerk of the Privy Council Office, Government of Canada
• Patrick Dion, Director, Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Don Drummond, Economics Advisor to TD Bank, Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance Canada and former Chief Economist of TD Bank
• David Gyarmati, Director of Research, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
• John Helliwell, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia
• Sue Johnson, Professor, University of Ottawa
• Roger L. Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
• Jim Milway, Executive Director, Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
• Éric Noël, Senior Vice President (North America), Oxford Analytica
• Alan Nymark, Former Deputy Minister, Government of Canada
• Jason Rentfrow, University Lecturer, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
• Daniel Sacks, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
• Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Living Standards
• Aileen Simkins, Director of Operations, Economic, Labour and Social Analysis Directorate, UK Office of National Statistics
• Ian Stewart, Chairman, Centre for the Study of Living Standards

The cost to attend the event is $250 plus HST per person

Continental breakfast and buffet lunch included

If you wish to make a reservation at the Chateau Laurier, please call in at (613) 241-1414 and mention that you will be attending the Conference on Happiness as a goal for public policy and use the code CENT1210 for a special rate of $199 per night. For more information on the Chateau Laurier please, click here.

If you have any questions, if you are HST exempt, or if you would like to inquire about our reduced rate of $100 available to students, retirees, and unemployed please contact Tamer Azer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 416-920-1921 x228

Roger Martin to release Task Force’s Ninth Annual Report

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Roger Martin as he discusses this year’s report focusing on productivity, innovation and prosperity.

Registration is free, but space is limited.

Continental breakfast will be available from 7:30 a.m.

Institute to release Working Paper 14 on expanding trade to strengthen innovation

Roger Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity and the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto will be presenting the Institute’s latest research on International Trade. The working paper examines trade with developed and developing economies through the lens of its impact on our innovation performance.

Joining Roger Martin at the release of the working paper will be:

Sarah Kutulakos, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of The Canada China Business Council
Jason Langrish, Executive Director of The Canada Europe Round Table for Business (CERT)
Colin Robertson, Senior Research Fellow of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

No charge for attendance, but space is limited.

James Milway to speak at The 2nd Canadian Quality Congress

Take this opportunity to listen to our Executive Director James Milway discuss Canada’s under performance in productivity and innovation.  Federal, provincial, and many local governments have adopted innovation agendas to commercialize research and stimulate the growth of new industries.  Based on the research conducted by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, Milway will discuss Canada’s innovation gap and identify some of the factors that help explain it.  He will focus on the requirements for good public policy on innovation – the need for effective support for innovation and competitive pressure. 

Innovation is the result of an eco-system that has both support and pressure.  However, much of our public policy is based on the premise that innovation is a linear process of commercializing research results.  Consequently it is too often aimed solely at providing support, particularly for the hard sciences.  Innovation policy needs to be balanced with efforts at strengthening management and boosting competitive pressure in the economy.

Registration will be available in February at: http://www.CanadianQualityCongress.com

Conference on Canada’s Prosperity 2010

The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity releases its annual Report on Canada, Beyond the recovery.

The report will be unveiled by the Institute’s Chairman, Roger Martin, the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He will identify the key challenges for Canada’s governments, businesses, and people in achieving our prosperity potential as we move into economic recovery.

The morning will kick off with Roger presenting the report.  We’ll then hear reactions and observations from some of the leading Canadian thinkers on issues of prosperity, innovation, and competitiveness: 

Hon. Kevin Lynch, P.C., former Clerk of the Privy Council; Vice-Chairman, BMO Financial Group. 
Hon. Michael Wilson, P.C., O.C., former Minister of Finance and former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.
Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, Conference Board of Canada
P. Thomas Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation.
Barbara Stymiest, Group Head, Strategy, Treasury and Corporate Services, Royal Bank of Canada  

The event will be moderated by CBC Broadcaster Don Newman.

Join them and your colleagues at an enlightening and enlivening morning. The cost is $95 plus GST.

Please do so quickly. This event has sold out in years past and this year will be no exception.

If you have any questions or if you are GST exempt, please contact Tamer Azer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 416-920-1921 x228

Institute to release Working Paper 13, Management matters in retail

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the quality of management in Canada’s and Ontario’s retail sector and presents new research on the impact of management on regional and national prosperity.The Working Paper is a continuation of the Institute’s work on Canada and Ontario’s manufacturing sector, presented in Working Paper 12, Management matters.

Joining Roger Martin at the release of Management matters in retail will be:

Dene Rogers, President & CEO of Sears Canada Inc.
David Soberman, Marketing Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

The release of the Working Paper by Roger Martin and the panelists’ discussion will take place at The Rotman School of Management, Fleck Atrium, 105 St. George Street, 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Thursday, April 8, 2010.
There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

Roger Martin to Release Task Force’s Eighth Annual Report

Registration and continental breakfast 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Roger Martin as he discusses the future of Ontario’s economy and the decisions we must make as we navigate through the recovery.

Registration is free, but space is limited.

For Roger Martin’s Presentation, click here.

Strength in Services: A Summit on Transforming Service Jobs (Note location change)

Conference on Canada’s Prosperity

If you have any questions please contact Tamer Azer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 416-920-1921 x228

We are sorry, but registration for the conference on April 15 has reached capacity

If you would like to be placed on the waiting list. Please contact Tamer Azer at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 416-920-1921 x228

We thank you for your interest and will be sure to notify you immediately of any cancellations.

Institute to release Working Paper 12, Management Matters

We are pleased to announce that Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity will be releasing Working Paper 12 on Wednesday March 11, 2009, 8:00 to 10:00 am.

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the quality of management in Canada’s and Ontario’s manufacturing sector in comparison to other developed and developing economies.  It also presents new research on the impact of management on regional and national prosperity.

Roger Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity will present the Working Paper.  Joining Roger will be:

Michelle Alexopoulos, Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. Michelle has developed a methodology for tracking technology innovation through an economy based on increases in the publication of books and articles on specific technologies.  She has applied this approach to measuring innovation in management techniques and their impact on the productivity and prosperity of the economy.  Michelle’s results and conclusions are part of the new research in this Working Paper.

Carol Deacon, Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company. Last year, McKinsey released a report on Canada’s global competitiveness, including the roles culture and management practices play in driving innovation and competitiveness. Carol will be sharing some key findings from McKinsey’s research, discussing how they complement the Management Matters research, and teeing up options for Canada to enhance its culture, innovation, and competitiveness.

Charlotta Mellander, Research Director at the Prosperity Institute of Scandinavia, Jönköping International Business School.  Charlotta has collaborated with Richard Florida and Kevin Stolarick with the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute to examine the factors that shape economic development in Canadian regions.  In their work they assessed the impact of management occupations on regional income.

There is no charge for this event, but space is limited. Registration is required.

Roger Martin and Richard Florida to release report on Ontario

In the 2008 Ontario budget, the Ontario Government asked Roger Martin, Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Richard Florida, Director of the Rotman School’s Martin Prosperity Institute to “undertake a study of the changing composition of Ontario’s economy and workforce, examine historical changes and projected future trends affecting Ontario, and provide recommendations to the Province for ensuring that Ontario’s economy and people remain globally competitive and prosperous.”

The report of their findings and recommendations, to be released on February 5 is an important element of Ontario’s economic strategy.  Following its release, the authors hope to engage Ontarians in an ongoing dialogue about achieving advantage for Ontario in the creative age.

TThe Economic Club of Toronto event will be held at the Hilton Hotel at 145 Richmond Street West from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and costs $75 plus GST. To register, click here.

2009 Canadian Business Outlook Conference

We are pleased to announce that Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress will be releasing the Task Force’s Seventh Annual Report on November 25, 2008. The release will be part of the 2009 Canadian Business Outlook Conference between 8:00am and 12:30 pm.

Registration information:
CB Subscribers, Rotman Alumni, GTMA & Business Association Members: $99
Non-Subscribers: $129
Table of 10: $899

To find out more about the conference and to register online click here.

Release of working paper 11

We are pleased to announce that Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity will be releasing Working Paper 11 on Thursday September 18th, 2008, 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

The Working Paper features recent research done by the Institute on the importance of head offices to Canada’s economy and the potential benefits of a “National Champions” policy. This research was carried out in support of the Competition Policy Review Panel chaired by Lynton ‘Red’ Wilson.

Joining us at the release will be Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation based in Waterloo, Ontario. Mr. Jenkins was a member of the Panel. He will discuss the Panel’s report Compete to Win released in June.

OECD Economic Survey of Canada Release

The C.D. Howe Institute and the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity are pleased to present the Toronto release of the

OECD Economic Survey of Canada

Join us for a presentation of the 2008 report by its authors

Alexandra Bibbee, Head of Canada Desk, OECD
Alexandra Iwanchuk Bibbee is a senior economist at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an inter-governmental organization comprising 30 mainly industrialised nations committed to democracy and the market economy. She has been a staff member of the Economics Department since 1990, having worked in the balance of payments, fiscal affairs and general economic assessment policy areas and on the country desks for Germany, Austria, Turkey, Italy, and Norway. She currently serves as head of desk for Canada and New Zealand. Before coming to the OECD Alexandra held positions at the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury. She has a B.A. from Kent State University (Ohio) and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1988).

Peter Jarrett, Head of Country Studies, OECD
Peter Jarrett is a senior official of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, an inter-governmental organisation comprising 30 mainly industrialised nations whose goal is to provide members with policy advice in every area except justice, culture and defense. He has been a staff member of the Economics Department since 1985. He began as an expert in supply-side econometric modeling before heading a series of country desks, notably those of France, Belgium/Luxembourg, Portugal, the United States, Iceland, Japan and Ireland. Since 1999 he has headed a Country Studies division that has comprised a variety of member and non-member countries. Currently his stable includes Canada, New Zealand, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia, Brazil and Israel. Before coming to the OECD Peter spent over five years working in the Research Department of the Bank of Canada. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto (Victoria) and a PhD from Harvard (1979).

They will be joined by a panel of observers of the Canadian economy with opportunities for audience involvement.

Panel details:

Andrew Heintzman, President and Co-founder of Investeco Capital

Andrea Mandel-Campbell, Author and Journalist

James Milway, Executive Director of the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity

William B.P. Robson, President and Chief Executive Officer of C.D. Howe Institute

No charge for this event, but space is limited.

Toronto: A City Becoming

Conference on Canada’s Prosperity Challenge

Featuring the release of Report on Canada 2008,

• What are the steps required for realizing Canada’s prosperity potential?
• Is a prosperity agenda at odds with a poverty agenda?
• How can Canada be a innovation leader not a laggard?
• Where should we turn up the competitive pressure?

Participate in the release of Report on Canada 2008, by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity with Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute and Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

Engage with leading thinkers on Canada’s economic performance

Hear the experiences of Canadian global leader Peerless Clothing and global mining group, Xstrata

Confirmed panelists include:

• Don Drummond, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group
• Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman, Peerless Clothing Inc.
• Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards
• Bill Robson, President and CEO, C.D. Howe Institute
• Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers

Lunch speaker: Thras Moraitis, Executive General Manager Group Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Xstrata (London, UK)

Cost to attend the event (which includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch) is $50 plus GST per person registered.

If you have any questions contact Daniela Scur (416) 920-1921 ext 224

The Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada – Myth or Reality?

Canada’s global corporate leaders in a world stock market hot on commodities and takeovers

Much has been written and said over the past few years about the hollowing out of corporate Canada. While this may be a lamentable emotional issue for most Canadians, what are the implications for Canadian investors and portfolio managers? The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity has compiled a list of Canada’s Global Leaders and tracked changes to that list that have occurred since 1985. State Street Global Advisors has recently worked with the Institute to track stock market performance of this list and its conclusions are both revealing and surprising.

The Federal Government judged the issue of global competitiveness and the need to create domestic conditions to foster the development of Canadian-based global businesses of such importance that it formed a blue ribbon panel chaired by L.R. (Red) Wilson. That panel is to report its recommendations to the Government by June 30, 2008.

Moderator:
Dr. Avery Shenfield
Managing Director, CIBC World Markets

Speakers:
James Milway, MBA
Executive Director, Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity

Peter Lindley
Head of Investment Management Group, State Street Global Advisors - Canada

Toronto CFA Society Members: Please register online at www.torontocfa.ca

Non-Members: Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (credit card payment required at time of registration)

From Complacent to Competitive: New strategies to help Canadian enterprise compete

Schulich Executive Development, The Access Group and CATA Alliance

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FROM COMPLACENT TO COMPETITIVENew strategies to help Canadian enterprise compete on the global stage

The first executive roundtable of INNOVISION 08
Don’t miss the first exciting executive roundtable of INNOVISION 08, our innovation series for leading Canadian executives.
Panel members include:
• Managing Director, Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity
• Vice President Information Technology, Inscape
• Vice President, Industrial Operations & Assurance,Thales Rail Signalling Solutions Inc.
• Program Director, Schulich Executive Development

FROM COMPLACENT TO COMPETITIVE is a chance to dialogue with senior peers and share working strategies on how to:
• Develop a high performance, on demand value chain network
• Create more customer value
• Compete more effectively against lower-cost producers from around the globe

Please join us on Tuesday January 22nd 2008 from 8 am to 12 pm for a unique knowledge-sharing symposium, exclusively for senior manufacturing, retail, financial services executives.
Our first informative free half-day session will allow you the opportunity to debate and discuss amongst your colleagues on strategies to grow the Canadian enterprise by adding value to the supply chain.

Enterprise Strategy Roundtable:
Manufacturing costs for Ontario car makers are skyrocketing, prompting layoffs.
Consumer expectations for the lowest price ravage every market around the globe.
Canada’s six banks with their acquired legacy systems struggle to compete with over 5000 flexible and modern banks in the U.S. today.

In these challenging times, how can Canadian business leaders shake off complacency and grow their enterprises to:
• Compete powerfully against “low-cost” competitors in the global marketplace? 
• Meet and exceed customer demand for real time access to operational data - such as inventory, orders and shipments?
• Speed up development-while lowering the cost of implementing innovation?
      Find out…and trade perspectives with  
      your peer at this synergistic executive think tank

To view a list of past attendees, please click here
Get on board today
and find out why past attendees have included the nation’s top CEOs
RSVP NOW by sending your contact information to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by calling (416) 629-7924.

* Please note: registration is not open to independent consultant and/or technology vendors. Attendance is contingent upon host acceptance

2008 Canadian Business Outlook Conference

We are pleased to announce that Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress will be releasing its Sixth Annual Report on November 19, 2007.  The release will be part of the 2008 Canadian Business Outlook Conference between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm.

There is no charge for this event but space is limited and pre-registration is mandatory.
To find out more about the conference and to register online click here.

Canadian Business Outlook 2008

Date/Time/Place: November 19, 2007, 8:00am-12:00pm, Rosewater Room, 19 Toronto Street, Toronto
Agenda and Speakers:

8:00-8:50 Registration and Networking Breakfast

8:50-9:00 ‘Official Welcome ‘
Deborah Rosser, Publisher, Canadian Business

9:00-9:45 ‘Beyond the Border: Seizing Opportunities for Canada…And Canadians’
Jean-François Courville, President & Chief Operating Officer, MFC Global

9:45-10:15 ‘Multiple Challenges/Multiple Opportunities: Competitive Essence in a Multi-Polar World’
Bill Morris, President, Accenture Canada Inc.

10:15-10:30 Networking Break

10:30-11:10 ‘Panel Discussion: Economic Outlook 2008’
Jeff Sanford, Staff Writer, Canadian Business magazine
Benjamin Tal, Senior Economist, CIBC World Markets
David Wolf, Head of Canadian Economics and Chief Strategist, Merrill Lynch Canada Inc.
Moderator, Joe Chidley, Editor, Canadian Business

11:10-Noon ‘Keynote Presentation: An Agenda for Ontario’s Prosperity’
by Roger L. Martin, Dean, Rotman School and Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity

Noon Close

Click here to register

Conference Sponsors: Accenture Inc., Canadian Business magazine, Rotman School of Management

Prosperity, Inequality, and Poverty in Ontario

8:00am - 8:30am     Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:30am     Roger L. Martin Presentation
9:30am - 10:15am   Panel Discussion

Carolyn Acker is Executive Director of Pathways to Education.  Its mission is “to ensure that young people from at-risk and/or economically disadvantaged communities achieve their full potential by getting to school, staying in school, graduating and moving on to post-secondary programs.” Miles Corak has recently joined The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa as a Professor.  Previously Miles was the Director of the Family and Labour Studies Division at Statistics Canada.  His areas of expertise include social policy, poverty, and intergenerational mobility Elizabeth McIsaac is Executive Director, Toronto Regional Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), a multi-stakeholder council that is working to improve access to employment for immigrants in the City of Toronto and the Regions of Peel, York and Halton, so they are better able to use the skills, education and experience they bring with them to Canada.

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World Economic Forum economist Jennifer Blanke to address Economic Club of Toronto

Presented by the Economic Club of Toronto

Hear Dr Jennifer Blanke from the World Economic Forum discuss Canada’s competitive standing in innovation - “Missing the research and innovation boat: Understanding Canada’s competitive decline”.

The Institute for Competitivness & Prosperity is the World Economic Forum’s Canadian partner.

Registration with The Economic Club of Toronto required

To register, click hereor call 416-306-0899

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Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity

Hear author Andrea Mandel-Campbell discuss her new book,  Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson – Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity

Register on Rotman web site

7:15-8:00a Continental Breakfast, Networking, Book Sale
8:00a sharp-9:15 Discussion
9:15-10:00a Networking, Book Sale

Jim Milway to speak at Labour Market Intelligence Day

Labour Market Intelligence Day presented by ICTC and ITAC

In ICT, as in any knowledge intensive industry, the means of production exits the workplace everyday at closing time. Brainpower is the fundamental ingredient in the products and services we produce.  So it pays ICT companies to maintain a strong understanding of the key issues in the industry’s labour market.

ICTC, the Information and Communications Technology Council, is the most trusted source for current data and analysis on Canada’s ICT labour market. ICTC and ITAC are pleased to offer a rich, half-day session to update your knowledge about labour market issues affecting your business.  Labour Market Intelligence Day will feature and exploration of key concepts such as productivity, strategic economic planning and diversity presented by leading authorities such as author, David Ticoll, James Milway of the Institute for Prosperity and Competitiveness and Wendy Cukier of Ryerson University.  The morning will also feature the results of new studies by the Branham Group and Michael Robinson Consulting on trends in the industry and current data on college enrollment in ICT related fields of study.

Labour Market Intelligence Day will truly enrich your intelligence regarding the ICT labour market so vital to your company’s success.  We encourage you to join us.

The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) is a not-for-profit sector council, funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program. We are dedicated to creating a strong, prepared and highly-educated Canadian ICT industry and workforce. ICTC is a catalyst for change that will provide labour market intelligence, life-long professional development and quality education and training for the Canadian ICT industry, educators, governments and the ICT workforce.

Click here to register

New release “Lessons for Canada from International Productivity Experiences”

In Centre for Study of Living Standards Spring 2007 issue of International Productivity Monitor

Click here to see report

Conference on Canada’s Prosperity Challenge

Featuring the release of Report on Canada 2007, Agenda for Canada’s prosperity

• Do Canadians need to work smarter or harder?
• Is free trade a solution or a problem?
• How can Canada be a productivity leader not a laggard?
• What are the opportunities for taxing smarter?
• Where should we turn up the competitive pressure?

Participate in the release of Report on Canada 2007, Agenda for Canada’s prosperity, by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity with Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute and Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

Hear leading thinkers on Canada’s economic performance

Learn about Canadians’ attitudes to competitiveness and prosperity

Moderated by Paul Wells, Senior Columnist, Maclean’s and author of Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper’s New Conservatism

Cost to attend either event (which includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch) is $125 plus GST per person registered.

Draft Agenda
7:30 – 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
 

8:30 – 9:30
Release of report, Agenda for Canada’s prosperity, by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity, with Roger L. Martin, Chairman of the Institute and Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
 

9:30 - 10:30
Perspectives on Canada’s prosperity challenge

  * Tamim Bayoumi, Chief, North American Division, International Monetary Fund
  * Brian Lee Crowley, Clifford Clark Visiting Economist, Department of Finance Canada
  * Paul Daniel Muller, President, Montreal Economic Institute

10:30 – 10:50 Q&A
 
10:50– 11:10 Break
 
11:10 – 12:10 Perspectives on trade

  * Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman, Peerless Clothing
  * Andrea Mandel-Campbell, Author, Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson
  * Dan Trefler, Professor, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

12:10 -12:30 Q&A
 
12:30 – 1:30 Buffet lunch with Greg Lyle, Innovative Research Group, with new polling results on attitudes towards competitiveness and productivity
 
Conference Moderator Paul Wells (Senior Columnist, Maclean’s, and author of Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper’s New Conservatism)

Working Paper 9 Release at Rotman School

Conference on Canada’s Competitiveness & Prosperity

Why Investment Matters for Ontarians

This conference explored the importance of investment from the perspectives of all of the stakeholders in Ontario’s prosperity. Recent reports by the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, the Ontario Economic Summit, and others have concluded that Ontarians need to invest more for future prosperity. This includes investment in hard assets such as machinery, equipment, and buildings; investment in technology, such as new products or processes; investment in infrastructure; and investment in human assets, such as education and training, the well-being of communities, and our immigrants.

This conference explored the importance of investment from the perspectives of all of the stakeholders in Ontario’s prosperity. Recent reports by the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, the Ontario Economic Summit, and others have concluded that Ontarians need to invest more for future prosperity. This includes investment in hard assets such as machinery, equipment, and buildings; investment in technology, such as new products or processes; investment in infrastructure; and investment in human assets, such as education and training, the well-being of communities, and our immigrants.

There were several speakers representing a wide variety of stakeholders and perspectives: