Looking for Virtual Business Pinoneers

We are looking for virtual business pioneers to share their success stories in our upcoming book A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Virtual Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage. In the book, we discuss three critical components of virtual business: social technology, emerging law,...

August 15th, 2010 | Features | Read More

UAE Knowledge Management Forum 2010

Opening Keynote, Abu Dhabi Crowne Plaza Hotel, June 14th, 2010: The TLC of KM: Applying the Enablers of Knowledge Management. Join Dr. John Girard for a thought provoking examination of knowledge management (KM) in action (or is that inaction!). This session focuses on how organizational leaders...

May 28th, 2010 | Events | Read More

UAE KM Forum 2010 – June 2010 – Abu Dhabi

Join John at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Knowledge Management (KM) Forum 2010 in Abu Dhabi on 14 and 15 June 2010 where he will delivery a keynote titled: The TLC of KM: Applying the Enablers of Knowledge Management. Scheduled speakers include Dr. Naim Al-Thaher, Associate Professor at Zarka...

April 24th, 2010 | Events | Read More

Cindy Gordon joins Virtual Business book team.

Cindy M. Gordon joins John and JoAnn as a co-author for their new book: A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage. Cindy is a seasoned senior executive with over twenty years of industry experience in communications & high tech and financial services....

April 24th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Virtual Business Book by John Girard, Cindy Gordon & JoAnn Girard

John Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn Girard have joined forces to write a new book that features virtual business successes and a few failures too! As business leaders look to the future, especially in troubling economic times, many are considering how to remain competitive in an era of scant resources. ...

April 24th, 2010 | Our Books | Read More

Verety: Virtual Business in Action

Our first case study features an innovative way to tackle a major challenge facing leaders in the restaurant business. Although this challenge is not unique to the restaurateurs, it often creates a management nightmare in the fast food segment, especially for urban-based stores. The specific challenge...

November 9th, 2009 | Features | Read More

John’s Interview on KSA2 Television

I recently traveled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to facilitate a series of management seminars in conjunction with Success Steps (www.success-steps.com). The focus of the events included leadership, the learning organization, and empowering knowledge workers. During my stay I was interviewed by KSA2 television....

August 12th, 2009 | Features, Main | Read More

Sagology and Success Steps form Strategic Partnership

Dr. John Girard, Sagology, and Mr. Ibrahem Ahmed Al Karaan, Executive Manager Success Steps, announce a strategic partnership between the two companies. Success Steps will coordinate all Sagology training and consulting in the Arab World. The first event under the new partnership was an Executive...

July 14th, 2009 | Features | Read More

Canadian Manager Magazine Features our New Book

The Summer 2009 edition of Canadian Manager Magazine features a full-page highlight of our new book, A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance. The review is available for download here. Here is the content: A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge...

July 3rd, 2009 | Features | Read More

The Future of Management . . . Are you Ready?

by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Canadian Manager Magazine For the past two decades, public and private sector executives and managers have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers,...

July 3rd, 2009 | Features | Read More