Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic chatted with Nimble Hippo Radio while the ink was drying on city’s new Digital Strategy — a document that lays out how the city will use techniques from the world of corporate innovation to bring municipal government into the 21st century. We talk smart cities and streetlights, inclusive government, innovation strategy, […]

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Dave Caputo, President, CEO & Co-Founder of Sandvine, shares his story with Nimble Hippo Radio. As an executive for PixStream, Caputo helped lead the company through a major acquisition by Cisco only to turn around and start another company, Sandvine, the next day. In this episode, Caputo shares stories from the front line, his thoughts […]

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Fred Bakker and Antoine van Agtmael, co-authors of the book The Smartest Places on Earth, have a combined 60 years of experience in business and finance. Bakker spent his career as a journalist for a Dutch financial newspaper, van Agtmael spent his as a financier. In this episode of Nimble Hippo Radio, the co-authors talk about […]

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Neal Hill — Vice President of Market Development with BDC Capital — wants to change the conversation between startups and enterprise companies. At BDC, Hill is in charge of Canada’s Venture Capital Action Plan (VCAP) and cultivating high-potential Canadian general partners. Hill spends a lot of time with Fortune 500 and Global 2,000 CEOs, but […]

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Terry Stuart, Chief Innovation Officer for Deloitte Canada, is a Nimble Hippo dream guest. He knows the world of corporate innovation like the back of his hand — bruises and all — and in this episode of Nimble Hippo Radio he shares lessons learned from a life at the front line. A core member of […]

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Communitech’s own Executive HR Strategist and Talent Growth Coach Nancy Buck joins the Nimble Hippo Podcast this week, to share a strategic approach to HR that she’s spent a career testing and developing: Driving Business Outcomes. The Driving Business Outcomes model puts traditional HR thinking in the backseat, and reorients all people and culture initiatives […]

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Janet Bannister, who brought Kijiji to Canada as one of eBay’s earliest employees, sits down with Nimble Hippo Radio host Craig Haney for a wide-ranging chat about 21st century corporate innovation. Bannister discusses how large corporates can work with startups, the way she thought about how innovation strategy impacts — even cannibalizes — current business creating Kijiji […]

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Punit Soni, with experience creating mobile products for huge companies like Google and Flipkart, has a wealth of insight on how companies should adopt mobile strategy. The bad news? If you’re just starting to realize you need to become a technology company, it may be too late already. Hear Soni’s advice for how to catch up […]

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