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We have designed contracting methods that deal with each of those weaknesses. Many new cross-departmental standing offer requests are designed as regional standing offers so a company does not have to supply us across the entire country. In terms of the product line, we deliberately divided some standing offer requests into blocks of products, so companies can compete in their own area. For example, in professional services, instead of going with one instrument to contract up to, say $5 million for a certain service or product area, we designed tiers - say, up to $200,000, then $200,000 to $1 million, then $1 to $5 million. The mandatory and rated requirements for each tier can be changed to match our requirements. Because we can tune requirements based on the scale of the purchase, an ...
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Most small and medium enterprises are concentrated on the domestic economy with particularly large footprints in health care, construction, and consumer and business services," said TD economist Derek Burleton, co-author of that bank's report. "The good news is that these domestic areas of Canada's economy should hold up well over the next few years, supported by a strong labour market, an increase in government spending, relatively low lending rates, and cuts to small business income tax rates implemented by several provincial governments. "Small business owners have indicated their optimism about Canada's prospects in the year ahead and that will go a long way toward reinforcing the economy's forward momentum," said Scotiabank economist Aron Gampel. "Small business owners are taking...
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In a July 2007 presentation to the provincial government, the Coalition of BC Businesses, which represents over 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses in BC, identified labour shortages as the number one challenge for BC's small businesses, noting that labour shortages are most acute in the province's small communities.7
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Rao, Metts, and Mora Monge (2003) proposed a stage model to reflect the progression small businesses follow in their use of Internet technology. We extend their work in two ways. We introduce marketing integration into this technology-focused model and further differentiate the transactions stage of the framework. We then use the model to examine differences in the degree of sophistication of websites used by businesses in the Canadian winery sector. Data collection entailed a content analysis on a census of English language Canadian winery websites (N = 206). A supplementary survey was used to distinguish among those sites that were making use of relatively advanced technologies. A multinomial logit analysis was applied to examine a series of research questions based upon our integrate...
