Accenture document on governance presented with the Alcan case‚ place Canadian Shield in the appropriate quadrant. According to the Accenture document‚ I would place Canadian Shield within the efficient‚ predictable operator category. The slow rate of change and need to compete on operational efficiencies characterized by most companies in this quadrant is detailed by the following quote from the case authors. “Sustainability for Canadian insurance companies greatly depended on investments in projects
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Canadian Shield Relative Size/Location This region occupies over 50% of canada’s total land area (approximately 4‚ 800‚000km2)‚ making up parts of 6 provinces and 2 territories. The Canadian Shield is the largest landform region in Canada. Physical Landscape The Canadian Shield is made up of metamorphic and igneous rock‚ containing some of the world’s oldest rocks. It had once been a major mountain region but it is now relatively flat with rounded rock hills. In addition‚ hundreds of thousands
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mountain peaks and abandoned valleys. The mountains are fairly high and are a major part of the mountains found in Canada. The mountains in the artic cordillera are the highest mountains in Canada. The Precambrian rock also formerly known as the Canadian Shield. The northern part of Canada which the artic cordillera is in is covered with ice caps and glaciers. As it is the very northern part of Canada everyone should expect freezing temperatures when coming to the artic cordillera. To get in to detail
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The Canadian economy is one that is mostly dominated by the service industry. This industry employs approximately one-third of the work force. Its primary sector is the logging and petroleum manufacturing industries. During the past 100 years‚ the growth of the manufacturing‚ mining‚ and service sectors has transformed the nation into a more industrial and urban economy‚ when it used to be more rural. Alberta‚ Canada has large oil and gas resources‚ giving it the world’s second-largest oil reserves
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For the exclusive use of L. Wang HEC020 Volume 7 Issue 2 May 2009 Taking on the Challenge of IT Management in a Global Business Context: The Alcan1 Case – Part A2‚ 3 Case prepared by Professors Line DUBÉ‚4 Carmen BERNIER5 and Vital ROY6‚ 7 Montreal‚ March 2006. Robert Ouellette‚ an IT consultant and engineer by training in his early forties‚ has just accepted the position of Vice-President8 of Corporate Information Technologies (IT) at Alcan. His first mandate is to prepare a full report
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The Canadian economy is in the recovery phase on the business cycle. Where it has shown growth in the economy every year but it has yet to reach its peak. The economy is growing but at a very modest pace. In order to stimulate growth‚ some changes must be made to the economy. An expansionary fiscal policy would help the Canadian economy because it will increase the aggregate supply and aggregate demand which will result in an increase of the GDP. Increasing government spending would definitely help
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Effects of Immigration on the Canadian Economy Canada is known globally as the “nation of immigrants”. Canada’s current population is currently almost 35 000 000 (34 957 572 and counting).1 Over 6 million (19%) of these are immigrants.2 Canada has a current immigration rate of 240 000 to 265 000 immigrants a year.3 Currently provinces Ontario‚ British Colombia and Alberta hold most of Canada’s immigrants‚ with 28% in Ontario‚ 27% in British Colombia‚ 16% in Alberta and the remaining 29% scattered
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The Canadian economy is determined largely by the United States economy threw the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement that came into effect on January 1‚1995 which involves Mexico‚ Canada and the United States of America. This agreement is said to produce 1 billion to 3 billion dollar gains in each country. NAFTA ensures that a certain amount of goods produced and traded between the three countries
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organizations in Canada are synonymous with the branch plant economy phenomenon. In general‚ "the term branch plant economy refers to a convenient shorthand term to describe a regional economy where a large proportion of the employees are in establishments owned by firms whose head office lies outside the region" (Watts 1). In Canada‚ branch plant economies are subsidiaries of companies based abroad‚ mostly in the U.S. A branch plant economy is a strategic tool used by transnational corporations to
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