Advisory

How much profit is your business losing to wastes hidden inside your operations every day?  Waste elimination is one of the most effective ways to increase profitability in your business. To get rid of waste we need to fully understand exactly what waste is and where it can be found.  Processes either add value or...

By now, news of yet another data breach resulting in unauthorized access to personal information — especially financial information — has become so frequent as to seem almost commonplace. Notwithstanding, the recent data breach affecting Capital One was, in many ways, a singular event. The magnitude of the Capital One data breach was unprecedented in...

For almost a decade now, Canadians have been living, and borrowing, in an ultra-low interest rate environment. As of the end of April 2018, the bank rate (from which commercial interest rates are derived) stood at 1.5%. The last time that the bank rate was over 1.5% was in December of 2008. Effectively, adult Canadians...