Canadian Business Review articles from March 1991

Canadian Business Review archives from March 1991

A second-quarter recovery: dreaming in technicolor? (Frank Talk on the Economy) (column)
March 22, 1991... Many Conference Board members think our economic outlook is too OPtimistic. They may be right, but there are Several reasons why I think growth will return in the second quarter. * Interest rates are falling even faster than we thought...

Ensuring value for money. (Canada's Auditor General Kenneth M. Dye)(includes biography) (interview)
March 22, 1991... "Value for money" may be the phrase that best describes Ken Dye's ten-year term as Auditor General-but by his own account he's a strategic manager who has everyone "singing from the same songsheet" Since be took up his appointment as...

Literacy & business: an economic challenge for the '90s.
March 22, 1991... Several recent research studies emphasize the negative consequences that functional illiteracy is having on Canada's competitive positon Illiteracy has long been portrayed as a social and educational problem. In recent years, however, we...

Partnerships in the drive for literacy: a round-table discussion. (includes related article)
March 22, 1991... "We are only touching the tip of the iceberg. To deal effectively with the challenge of illiteracy, there is a need for all players to build a partnership, to define basic objectives, and to identify common goals for Canada" The thought...

Case studies in literacy. (Abitibi-Price Inc., City of Calgary, Chateau Laurier, Tiger Brand Knitting)
March 22, 1991... Canadian business is beginning to recognize that it needs to cultivate an educated, literate workforce to maintain its competitiveness in global markets. Traditionally able to rely on its abundant natural resources, Canada recognizes that it...

A five-cent nickel: in pursuit of price stability.
March 22, 1991... In his first public address as Governor of the Bank of Canada, john Crow made this statement: The objective to which monetary policy should give central attention is maintaining confidence in the value of the money we use in Canada-in other...

The future of coal.
March 22, 1991... In the new Age of the Environment there are some who think coal has no future. Yet most energy analysts agree that by early in the next century, coal will overtake oil as the single most important source of all energy used on earth. This trend...

Why invest in technology during a recession?
March 22, 1991... Over the past several years, Canada's need to invest more intensively and rapidly in technology has been the subject of much discussion. Now, there is a real danger that the needed action, which I believe is vital to the long-term well-being of...

North and Latin America: the new partnership.
March 22, 1991... Canadian businesspeople and economists appear to prefer the East to the South. "Globalization of the world economy" has been interpreted as expansion into Asia and, more recently, Eastern Europe. These areas, it is said, will provide us...

How total is your quality management?
March 22, 1991... During the 1980s, a growing number of organizations began several service/quality improvement activities. These included statistical process control, quality circles, self-directed workteams, customer service training, service gap analysis,...