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Skills, attitudes and behaviours of individuals are central to an organization’s ability to innovate, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Innovation Skills Profile 2.0 (ISP2.0), which was launched today. It identifies the skills needed to generate ideas, take calculated risks and be entrepreneurial, develop interpersonal relationships that support innovation, and implement ideas. The ISP2.0 is designed to be used by employees, employers, educators, students, governments, labour and communities to become more innovative. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based provider of enterprise mobile applications Flowfinity Wireless Inc. has announced that security services provider McCoy Brown & Associates has selected Flowfinity software for mobile incident and patrol reporting. The security company plans to improve customer service levels and competitive positioning by replacing inefficient paper forms with a real-time mobile solution. McCoy Brown & Associates wanted a cloud solution that would allow them to communicate to clients in a timely manner while reducing delays, data entry and lost paperwork. Using Flowfinity software, the company quickly created mobile versions of their existing forms and set up automatic email reports for clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Marcel Stewart, a respected arts educator, has joined the Talent INC Canada team to help prepare young actors for audition and networking opportunities. Marcel specializes in training youth for professional careers in the entertainment industry and comes to Talent INC with an extensive following. An up and coming actor, playwright, and arts-educator, Marcel performed in the Dora Award nominated production of Macbeth for the Classical Theatre Project, and the George F. Walker play Theatre of the Film Noir for Atlas Stage Canada,which toured throughout Poland and Austria in the fall of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian high tech association CATAAlliance has launched an advocacy Campaign to make it easier for ICT suppliers – particularly SMEs – to do business with Government through adopting a more efficient and simpler G-Cloud Store procurement model. The Campaign, known as G-Cloud First for Canada, would help govern the procurement of new or existing services, and it would require public sector organizations to consider and fully evaluate potential Cloud solutions first – before they consider any other option. CATAAlliance cited the U.K., as model for government modernization, and has taken the initiative to invite U.K. thought leaders to share their best practices with officials at Shared Services Canada (SSC), the Canadian department mandated to transform the delivery of services to citizens. Read the rest of this entry »

While many small organizations collect payments mainly through cash or checks, offering online payments can provide a number of advantages to these organizations and their supporters. But since there are a multitude of online payment service providers, membership management software provider Wild Apricot has developed two new resources to help. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Animation School has announced today the launch of its program advisory committee (PAC). The new committee will be directly providing feedback to ensure that the school and curriculum remains cutting edge and applicable to the rapidly changing needs of the animation industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) developer OpenText™ has announced the appointment of Noriyuki Hayakawa as president, OpenText Japan. In this role, Hayakawa will be responsible for leading the strategic vision and implementation of OpenText’s EIM strategy throughout the Japanese market. He will direct the Sales, Marketing and Customer operations for OpenText Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

What if your job included being the first to try out the hottest new toys and video games? Or to provide the inside scoop to parents and gift givers on the hottest toy trends on national TV? Well, Toys”R”Us Canada has a ‘dream job’ opening, as it searches for an enthusiastic child who is passionate about toys to become its next Chief Play Officer (CPO). The next CPO can expect a year full of fun, play and discovery which will include: toy training sessions with toy manufacturers, regular home deliveries of the newest, hottest toys to test, writing social media blogs, making television appearances across the country, walking in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade and acting as the spokesperson for Toys”R”Us in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, announced upcoming support for the open source Tizen mobile operating system. The deployment tools currently under development will allow Unity’s massive community of developers to build and publish games to Tizen OS smartphones and tablets via the Tizen Store later this year. Unity, which combines a high-powered engine and deep yet intuitive editor, takes the pain out of development by making the transition between platforms as easy as a click of a button. Supporting Tizen furthers Unity’s quest to empower developers to deploy their games to as many platforms as possible, allowing creators to focus their energy on designing the best and most entertaining experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Music for Productions has just announced that they have added new stock music to their online database, which has been composed by new composers to join the MFP team including, Margaret Maria, an award winning Canadian Cellist. Her first 3 pieces are now available in the stock music collection through the Music for Productions (MFP) website. Read the rest of this entry »