My battle with Stargardt disease highlights technology as a powerful force for good When my life flashed before my eyes in September of 2018, it wasn’t because of a near-death experience. It was because my neuro opthamologist and retina specialist had just told me I could no longer drive. Visual deterioration caused by Stargardt disease, […]
Thought Leaders
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Fostering Emerging Talent Can Be The Key To Bucking Tech’s High Turnover Rate
You are no doubt already aware that the technology industry (specifically software) has a notoriously high turnover rate. In fact, according to one oft-cited statistic, tech actually has a higher employee-turnover rate than any other industry, at 13.2%. It’s not hard to explain why this is the case. For one thing, compensation is a major […]
The Future of Residential Real Estate
What we know today to be traditional real estate in Canada is almost as old as the country itself. The very first real estate board was set up in 1888 in the growing community of Vancouver. Over the next 100 years regulations and associations were formed to assist consumers to purchase or sell property. Little […]
Tracking The Rental Market Industry’s Digital Evolution In COVID-19 Times & Beyond
No one could have predicted the rapid adoption of technology in legacy industries like real estate that we’ve seen since COVID-19. As restrictions relax both at home and abroad, will the residential rental industry continue to embrace digital solutions, or will landlords and renters return to business as usual once the masks are off? Slow […]
Capitalizing On Economic Recovery — The Necessity Of Fast Remote Hiring Post-COVID
An unprecedented economic boom is coming for a variety of industries around the world. As vaccine distribution continues to roll out globally, it is expected that rapid economic recovery will offer new opportunities to scale and innovate. With over 20 years of experience in the Canadian tech space, I have navigated changing global conditions and […]
Building a Healthy and Innovative Software Development Environment Remotely
As I mentioned in my previous article, Wishpond began experimenting with working remotely a few years before the pandemic began. As companies decide whether to adopt a hybrid or completely remote model, in this article I will cover some of our best practices that SaaS companies can replicate to maintain top talent while kindling software […]
The Great Mall of China: Reimagining our Digital Spaces in the Age of Disinformation
Technological evolutions have always heralded new ‘ages’ upon civilizations, marking a shift in focus, in ability, and in new challenges. As does nature, so too does technology evolve at break-neck scale; the jump from hand-held tools and labor to industrialization was centuries, industrialization to the internet was 100 years, internet to e-commerce was a decade, […]
Three Important Measurement Actions to Accelerate Female Advancement Around the World
Women around the world continue to be constrained when it comes to economic empowerment and advancement, due to a variety of social, legal and institutional barriers: the double burden of work and domestic responsibilities; gender stereotypes around women in the workplace; which sectors they choose; lack of female role models; and lack of opportunities to […]
Business Is Killing The World; Can Social Enterprise Save It?
Approximately $40,000 worth of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans every minute. Since the pandemic was declared, the amount of trash filling our oceans has only multiplied. In fact, COVID-19 has triggered an estimated global use of 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves every single month. Single-use plastic has exponentially increased because […]
How Vancouver Small Businesses Can Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Boom
With provincial restart plans in place, in-store shopping, indoor dining and indoor events are set to resume in the coming months. At last, a sense of normalcy is returning. Local and small businesses have been disproportionality impacted by the pandemic. In a survey we recently conducted at Interac, we found 75 per cent of Canadians […]