Opportunities NB Blog
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How One Couple Engineered Their New Brunswick Success Story
Green Imaging Technologies (GIT) specializes in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) solutions for special core analysis in the petroleum sector. Their software is used to measure valuable rock and fluid properties to help oil and gas companies make critical exploration and production decisions. Jill Green, Co-Founder and CEO, is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick (UNB)
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New Brunswick Export Success Stories: Bonté Foods
In June, the 2015 Export Awards recognized New Brunswick companies achieving recent or ongoing success in developing new markets and expanding their reach. Opportunities NB (ONB) wanted to check in with of some of those award-winning companies, and get to the bottom of their export success. Dieppe’s Bonté Foods Limited is a manufacturer of over 300 food products. Producing food under the Bonté
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The Big Lie About Finding and Keeping Fiercely Loyal Employees – Part 2
In this two-part series, Opportunities NB (ONB) sat down with Dov Baron, named one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers by Inc. Magazine, to talk about his latest book Fiercely Loyal. In part one of our interview, Baron offered great insight into why millennials think differently than baby boomers or even many Generation X employees. He also introduced the
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The Big Lie About Finding and Keeping Fiercely Loyal Employees – Part 1
In his latest book, Fiercely Loyal, Dov Baron struck a chord. With a wonderful array of real examples and relevant research, Baron demonstrates the way we have been managing for years is no longer the recipe for success. This is particularly true if you want to find and keep what you hope are fiercely loyal employees.
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There is No Place Like Home When it Comes to New Brunswick
You know those famous lyrics “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” Well that’s exactly what Kelly L. Buffett discovered after leaving New Brunswick nine years ago. She really did discover there is no place like home, and has since returned to New Brunswick to set up a law practice in Fredericton. In
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New Brunswick Export Success Stories: Populus Global Solutions
In June, the 2015 Export Awards recognized New Brunswick companies that have achieved recent and/or ongoing success in developing new markets and expanding their reach. Opportunities NB (ONB) wanted to take advantage of our relationships with some of that event’s featured speakers, and get their thoughts on achieving export success in Canada. Beth Webster is VP of Operations
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How Gamification is Driving Business
If social media has helped lead to the democratization of knowledge, then gamification may well lead to the democratization of education. This latter idea is certainly one that Brian Burke, Vice-President at Gartner has espoused. When you think about how gamification is leveraged today, it is much larger in scope than online gaming. In fact,
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How a Canadian Startup Plans to Revolutionize Agriculture
New Brunswick’s Resson delivers customized precision solutions for clients in the agriculture sector. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, the Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System (RAMAS™) gives the agricultural operator analytical insights and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson’s data-driven solution analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and
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Build Your Business Where Great Things Can Happen
Last week we posted part one of our chat with Dr. Dhirendra Shukla, in which we learned that New Brunswick is a place where you can live, work and do truly amazing things. There was just so much excitement in our conversation that we decided to add a second part to the interview. Today, we look closer at
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C-Suite Insights: Brett Proud of GuestLogix
Interviewing members of the C-Suite from leading, high-growth companies is always of great utility for our audience. In today’s post, we are pleased to interview Brett Proud, President & CEO of GuestLogix, to get a few of his insights for the rest of 2015. GuestLogix is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GXI,