Sunday, March 8, 2009
Joel's Meanderings:
Sorry its late
I think I misunderstood what was going on, my mistake.
I see doing nothing and staying in waterloo as pretty much the same thing. I also see a few things that we I think agree will be recommended regardless of which one we go with eg:
· Increase r&d spending as a percentage of sales/income (I think greg with your knowledge of their financials you probably have a good ratio we can recommend them to say within based on your industry and historical findings)
· Create new relationships with high tech universities around the us and Canada and also worldwide (we can utilize the university rankings ot develop a list of best choices)
o This would include providing co-op’s (even overseas e.g if we went with uk recommendation we could set up co-op from Netherlands (the dutch tend to have strong knowledge of English which is a strong positive)
o Provide students and facility with complementary services/phones (discounted data plans through major networks would be pretty simple one would imagine)
· Create knowledge sharing network (reward based) which could in turn be data mined to create an expansive knowledge base for employees
1) Do nothing (jus the bits I wrote about above)
2) UK Expansion:
· Continuing the UK think I would like the Birmingham idea as it also would encounter Manchester and pretty much anywhere else in the uk or Scotland due to its location (England isn’t that big of a place really! Its I think a quarter of the size of Ontario or something ridiculous)
· Gateway to Europe [open market]
· Co-Ops (international could attract from us/Canada and vice versa as no language barrier and little immigration barriers when is in regards to employment)
3) US Expansion:
NY seems a good idea, however it might prove expensive, could look at existing areas and work closely with universities/colleges to encourage students to move there… create a new waterloo of sorts.
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