Stay updated with breaking news from Conrad School. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Waterloo ranks in top 100 global universities making an impact By Stephanie Longeway. This article was originally published in Waterloo News. The University of Waterloo has once again placed in the top 100 universities in the world on the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2022. This year, Waterloo moves up 46 spots on the list to number 53. The Impact Rankings are
President issues statement on open and constructive dialogue A message from Vivek Goel, President and Vice-Chancellor. The past couple of years have placed unique strains on everyone in our world. The pandemic and its associated impacts to the way we all live, learn and work have changed so much about how we interact with the people around us, and with people we’ve only met
Have you seen signs on neighbours’ lawns proclaiming the evils of 5G? Would you like to understand what 5G is, how it works, where it differs from current technology, and why that matters? Co-hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, answer the most…
Leadership in a Digital Enterprise Leadership in a Digital Enterprise addresses topics that CIOs frequently bring up during gatherings, Love explains. “When the pandemic struck, it accelerated a curve that I think we’d been dealing with going into digital transformation, and what we know, entering that era, was that real leadership was needed to move into an uncertain future, to be able to bring people along into a new area,” Love said. “And technology was playing a real role in that. And so the CIO, who for so long asked for a seat at the table, was suddenly thrust there because we k...
Amit Majithia Amit Majithia, Vice President and Country Head for Wipro Limited Canada, joins co-hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, for this podcast episode that delves deeply into back-casting and other techniques to help organizations prepare for an uncertain future. Love and Sparkes open the 15-minute program with a discussion of Porter’s Five Forces, a model developed by Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School professor, to identify and analyze the competitive forces that affect an industry and help to det...