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FINEworks

FINEworks specializes in consulting in complex environments where consensus-building across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries is paramount. FINEworks brings executive skills and experience to its assignments; this assures alignment with the strategic objectives of its clients. It operates as a boutique consultancy, calling on a network of specialized associates depending on clients’ needs. Clients include a number of federal government departments and agencies and the not-for-profit sector, including the Sector Councils.  Services include organizational design and development, change management, economic and policy analysis, group process facilitation and project management.

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INVENIRE

INVENIRE is a Ottawa-based consultancy and think-tank that specializes in issues of governance and stewardship that belong to today’s fast-paced, ever-changing, and interdependent world. They help organizations govern themselves better by aiding them in the discovery of coordination solutions that work for them. Invenire enables decision makers to become more effective by helping them to re-frame their business models, to share power, to act horizontally, and to devise creative learning systems and processes that enhance their leadership capacity.


See Hubbard & Paquet's recent article in Optimum Online, Cat's Cradling: APEX Forums on wicked problems. “Cat’s cradle” is the name of a children’s string game – producing endless designs using fingers and a loop of string. It has been played around the world for hundreds of years, but, in modern times, the expression has been used to connote intricacy and complexity. This paper reports on 12 sessions of cat’s cradling discussions with some 50 federal government executives on eight different topics between fall 2006 and winter 2007, under the auspices of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX).

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IsaiX is a Canadian firm headquartered in Montreal, with offices in Ottawa and Toronto, that develops support tools for organizational learning including tools to support partnerships and collaboration. IsaiX Technologies began in 1989 as training and consulting company, Gregory Training Associates, which specialized in training and in the pharmaceutical, financial services and telecommunication industries.

IsaiX e-learning support tools include:

  • Interactive document training that supports either online or traditional training modules, provides easy access to e-library resources; generates main points and document highlights; and aids in self-directed study and review.
  • Coach Technology®, which is an online coaching or mentoring aid that can review specific training objectives, help establish target performance, monitor student progress, and create Personal Development Plans (PDPs).

IsaiX collaboration support tools include:

  • The creation of collaborative learning environments that can comprise coordinated scheduling, messaging, threaded discussions, document exchanges, and performance monitoring of collaboration objectives.
  • The generation of a partnership e-library for storage of common files, reports, MOUs, and other essential partner reference material and an ability to quickly search it via desktop computer, laptop or PDA.
  • The tracking of partner issues, activities and performance to provide greater transparency and trust.
  • Providing mechanisms for capturing partner contributions, benefits, and externalities to sustain partner commitments.
  • An easy-to-use reporting function that can generate reports on an as needed basis to satisfy the unique needs of each and every partner.
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