This presentation will discuss the fastest growing companies in Canada. The emphasis will be on characteristic as well as other programs that drive ideas from incubation to market
3. Paul Young - Presenter
Bio
• CPA/CGA
• 25 years of experience in Academia, Industry and Financial solutions
• Youtube Channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAArky1bAXPSuV2NLtUnyLg
4. Agenda
• Sluggish Growth
• Top 25 fastest growing companies
• Key characteristics of fastest growing companies
• What can be done to support up and coming companies
7. Characteristics of fast growing companies
• Take on the world (exports)
• Export Development Corporation
• Leveraging Trade and Investment deals (FIPA)
• Embrace transparency
• Motivating employees to succeed
• Stock Options
• Compensation
• Empowering collaboration
• Become a skills factor
• Continue to develop key skills that will drive performance (IT, Supply Chain, Pragmatic
Marketing, etc.)
• Cultivate resilience
• Those that adjust to changes survive prosper and those that do not are gone
• Build with a big mind
• Constantly review business processes to ensure efficiency, controls and effectiveness are
enforced.
8. What can be done?
• Taxation Policies
• Reducing the small business corporate tax to 9%
• No new taxes like ORPP or Cap and Trade
• Hydro Policies
• Capping the rise in hydro rates
• Trade/Investment
• More Free Trade Deals including FIPA
• Skills development
• Working with colleges and university as part building the skills required to support next
generation of jobs
• Access to capital
• Bridge funding
• More innovation Centers (Partnerships between Colleges/University, all levels of government
and private sector