David Burnie's guest appearances

David Burnie

Unleashed - How to Thrive as an Independent Professional

Business Decisions

LeaderLab

Melanie Espeland

Nir Eyal

Seth Godin

Tom Schwab

Mark Goulston

Jennifer Smith

Chris Fox

Kwame Christian

Rob Walker

John Joseph

Hilaree Nelson

Jonathan Stark

Ahmad Munawar

Michael Zipursky

Liston Witherill

OwlTail

David Cummings

For Episode 8 of the Business Decisions podcast, we're joined by David Burnie, the Principal and Founder of The Burnie Group. (https://burniegroup.com/)  Over the past 8 years David has built The Burnie Group into a successful mid-sized consulting firm with expertise in strategy, automation and innovation. The Burnie Group has built an impressive roster of clients and has ranked as one of Canada's top 100 fastest growing companies for the past three years. David talks with us about the importance of building strong client relationships, and some of the challenges associated with negotiating contracts when each client project is unique. After the conversation with David Burnie, (22:00) we're joined by David Cummings from Caravel Law. David shares his thoughts on service agreements, how companies can tackle issues like scope creep, how they should think about IP ownership as projects evolve, and how an agile development process should be covered during negotiations with clients.  It's important to note that David Cummings is sharing his thoughts on general topics and questions and not anyone's specific business or legal situation. Nothing you hear on this podcast should be considered legal advice. Links: Caravel Law - https://www.caravellaw.com/ The Burnie Group - https://burniegroup.com/ Host: Stuart Wood, Caravel Law Theme Music: The Box Jellys

For Episode 8 of the Business Decisions podcast, we're joined by David Burnie, the Principal and Founder of The Burnie Group. (<a href="https://burniegroup.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://burniegroup.com/</a>)  Over the past 8 years David has built The Burnie Group into a successful mid-sized consulting firm with expertise in strategy, automation and innovation. The Burnie Group has built an impressive roster of clients and has ranked as one of Canada's top 100 fastest growing companies for the past three years. David talks with us about the importance of building strong client relationships, and some of the challenges associated with negotiating contracts when each client project is unique. After the conversation with David Burnie, (22:00) we're joined by David Cummings from Caravel Law. David shares his thoughts on service agreements, how companies can tackle issues like scope creep, how they should think about IP ownership as projects evolve, and how an agile development process should be covered during negotiations with clients.  It's important to note that David Cummings is sharing his thoughts on general topics and questions and not anyone's specific business or legal situation. Nothing you hear on this podcast should be considered legal advice. Links: Caravel Law - <a href="https://www.caravellaw.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.caravellaw.com/</a> The Burnie Group - <a href="https://burniegroup.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://burniegroup.com/</a> Host: Stuart Wood, Caravel Law Theme Music: The Box Jellys

Episode 8 - David Burnie from The Burnie Group / David Cummings from Caravel Law

David Burnie is the Founder of The Burnie Group, a management consulting firm that focuses on helping clients design innovative strategies and continuously pursue operations excellence. On today’s episode, David discusses how no industry is safe from disruptive innovation and gives tips on how you can be proactive.   Key Takeaways:  Some may fear it but automation is going to help society. As more people retire we will have less workers to support them. It will allow people to focus on higher value jobs and eliminate some of the monotony.  We are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution. As technology increases exponentially, we will begin to see artificial intelligence, robotic process, and the internet of things explode.  With every industrial revolution, people have been scared about their jobs, but these revolutions have significantly improved quality of life. Today we are at the highest level of unemployment we have ever seen.  Every industry, even ones that haven’t been affected in years, will be disrupted with innovation, and that’s a good thing! We will be working more efficiently overall.  Examples of innovations include:  Internet of things will be elevated by 5G and will allow data to be transported very quickly. (eg. will be able to track bananas and optimized shipping conditions based on product demand) Block chain will allow multiple parties to share information (eg. better sharing of electricity between homes)     It's important to get ahead of the curve, before your competition does. Here are some things you can do:   Get educated - read and go to conferences Bring in experts - don't try to do everything yourself Innovation training -  train your leaders and the front line on new technologies  Embrace innovation - have a contest for employees to bring in new ideas  Performance management &amp; targets - allow people to fail and create incentives to try new things  Innovation funds - work with entrepreneurs and offer to pilot new technologies  Change how you recruit - look for flexibility and adaptability   Stay until the end for some rapid-fire questions with David!     Mentioned in This Episode: Burniegroup.com Burnie Group Twitter  Burnie Group LinkedIn     Subscribe to Leader Lab, and Leave a Rating &amp; Review!

David Burnie is the Founder of The Burnie Group, a management consulting firm that focuses on helping clients design innovative strategies and continuously pursue operations excellence. On today’s episode, David discusses how no industry is safe from disruptive innovation and gives tips on how you can be proactive.   Key Takeaways: <ul> <li>Some may fear it but automation is going to help society. As more people retire we will have less workers to support them. It will allow people to focus on higher value jobs and eliminate some of the monotony. </li> <li>We are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution. As technology increases exponentially, we will begin to see artificial intelligence, robotic process, and the internet of things explode. </li> <li>With every industrial revolution, people have been scared about their jobs, but these revolutions have significantly improved quality of life. Today we are at the highest level of unemployment we have ever seen. </li> <li>Every industry, even ones that haven’t been affected in years, will be disrupted with innovation, and that’s a good thing! We will be working more efficiently overall. </li> <li>Examples of innovations include: <ul> <li>Internet of things will be elevated by 5G and will allow data to be transported very quickly. (eg. will be able to track bananas and optimized shipping conditions based on product demand)</li> <li>Block chain will allow multiple parties to share information (eg. better sharing of electricity between homes)</li> <li> </li> </ul> </li> <li>It's important to get ahead of the curve, before your competition does. Here are some things you can do:  <ul> <li>Get educated - read and go to conferences</li> <li>Bring in experts - don't try to do everything yourself</li> <li>Innovation training -  train your leaders and the front line on new technologies </li> <li>Embrace innovation - have a contest for employees to bring in new ideas </li> <li>Performance management &amp; targets - allow people to fail and create incentives to try new things </li> <li>Innovation funds - work with entrepreneurs and offer to pilot new technologies </li> <li>Change how you recruit - look for flexibility and adaptability</li> </ul> </li> <li>Stay until the end for some rapid-fire questions with David! </li> </ul> Mentioned in This Episode: <a href="https://burniegroup.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Burniegroup.com</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BurnieGroup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Burnie Group Twitter </a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-burnie-group/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Burnie Group LinkedIn</a> Subscribe to <a href="https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/leaderlab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leader Lab</a>, and Leave a Rating &amp; Review!

EP003: How to be a smart innovator with David Burnie from The Burnie Group

David Burnie is a McKinsey alum and the founder of The Burnie Group, a boutique consulting firm based in Toronto. We discuss how we started as an independent professional and then proceeded to build a firm and how he has partnered with software firms to offer robotic automation. You can sign up for his firm's newsletter and read more about The Burnie Group at www.burniegroup.com

David Burnie is a McKinsey alum and the founder of The Burnie Group, a boutique consulting firm based in Toronto. We discuss how we started as an independent professional and then proceeded to build a firm and how he has partnered with software firms to offer robotic automation. You can sign up for his firm's newsletter and read more about The Burnie Group at <a href="http://www.burniegroup.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.burniegroup.com</a>

17. David Burnie on building a boutique firm