Episode 1 of Business Insights: The Podcast examines how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Canadian businesses — in all sectors and of all sizes. MNP’s Yohaan Thommy looks back at the past year to discuss initial business reactions to the pandemic, the advantages of long-term thinking and how business disruption can be turned into a positive.

Episode 6 of Business Insights: The Podcast explores the business model for tomorrow and how innovation through talent and technology is the way forward. Come listen to MNP’s Jason Lee and Paul Witherow discuss why Canadian businesses need to increase their willingness to adopt new concepts, business models and technologies, and how lessons learned over the past year will drive future innovation.

Episode 5 of Business Insights: The Podcast delves into the positive impact upskilling and reskilling has on Canadian businesses. MNP’s Jim Cruickshank discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic changed corporate culture in Canada — in a matter of weeks. Jim explains why prolonged business success is dependent on your people, and why employers need to understand that what their employees’ value now is different than it was a year ago.

Episode 4 of Business Insights: The Podcast examines the importance of continuous education in the workplace. MNP’s Jason Lee and Dev Mishra take a look at the emerging trends in analytics, AI, and machine learning and how focusing on these technologies when it comes to ongoing training of your employees can help with corporate innovation, efficiencies and discovering new revenue streams.

Episode 3 of Business Insights: The Podcast looks at risk preparedness and the importance of business continuity. MNP’s Cliff Trollope and Phillip Racco take us on a journey of what it was like in the early days of COVID-19 and how companies that examined business and operational risks, and planned for such risks were better prepared than others to survive the past 12 months.

Episode 2 of Business Insights: The Podcast examines the future workplace of Canadian businesses. Our guests, Dan Caringi and Mary Larson from MNP, share their thoughts on everything from working remotely to the hybrid workplace to the shifting values of Canadian business leaders.