Canadian Business Review articles from December 1991

Canadian Business Review archives from December 1991

Profit squeeze still on in '92. (Frank Talk on the Economy) (Column)
December 22, 1991... A return to pre-recession profit levels will take a long time. The high dollar and modest gains in prices for Canadian products mean that volume gains will be the main source of increased profits. * Corporate profits will take about four...

Building bridges at home & abroad. (SNC Group ex-Chairman Camille A. Dagenais)(Interview) (Cover Story)
December 22, 1991... Camille Dagenais graduated in 1946 with an engineering degree from the University of Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique and later studied administration at the Alexander Hamilton Institute and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. In 1953 he...

Customer satisfaction through quality. (includes related article) (Quality: An International Perspective)
December 22, 1991... Through our research and involvement with some of the most successful companies in the world, we have concluded that competitive success can only be achieved by organizations able to create a management system that focuses all resources on...

Practising what we preach. (total quality management program of Industry, Science and Technology Canada) (Quality: An International Perspective)
December 22, 1991... What does it take to compete in the 1990s? Ask any Canadian businessperson, and you will hear about world-class technology, greater productivity, innovation, a highly skilled work force, research and development. Most will also tell you that...

The path to excellence. (AMP of Canada Ltd.'s Total Quality Management program) (Quality: An International Perspective)
December 22, 1991... I magine three companies on the beach. One group is sitting in beach chairs with their bats down over their eyes. The sun is out and its hot. Their drinks are loosely clasped in their bands. For the second company, a little further down the...

Building in quality. (National Sea Products Ltd.'s total quality management program) (Quality: An International Perspective)
December 22, 1991... About three years ago our vice-president of Quality started talking about eliminating quality inspections in our plants. He talked about how much it was costing us to inspect quality into" our products rather than having quality control...

Cross-border shopping: searching for a solution.
December 22, 1991... Most Canadians buy goods and services from U.S. shops when they visit that country. In fact, Canadian customs allows a certain dollar amount of duty-free shopping, depending on the number of days spent in the United States. Until very...

Creating Canadian players for the global marketplace.
December 22, 1991... Canada needs a national industrial strategy to compete with other developed nations that have selected key industries on which to build their future economies. This country too must select a few pivotal industries such as telecommunications,...

A strategy for success. (Executive Forum)
December 22, 1991... Born In Luthuania, Gedas Sakus emigrated to Canada in 1948 Upon graduating from the University of Toronto in 1962, he joined Northern Telecom Canada (then Northern Electric) as a junior manufacturing engineer After serving In a wide range of...

New instruments for navigating the nineties. (Executive Forum)
December 22, 1991... Mrs. Lorraine McCaughey directs the operations of Burson-Marsteller Canada Ltd., a public relations firm involved in public affairs, government relations and public opinion research. She is also a member of the Burson-marsteller International...