Tuesday
10Nov2009

Energy Efficiency Becomes a Factor, At last

RKIL has been evolved for the past 20 years in areas of energy efficiency with our projects for NRCan, Ontario Hydro, Energy@Work and the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance. The concept of a watt saved is a watt earned makes sense, and more opportunities are available now than ever.

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Thursday
05Nov2009

Carrots and Sticks Don't Work for Knowledge Work!

When it comes to motivation, what science knows, and what business does are two different things. The science is pretty clear that for cognitive tasks higher rewards do not produce better results, in fact they produce worse results.

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Tuesday
03Nov2009

What does RKIL stand for?

Over the years the question has been asked quite a few times, and like any good name, there is a story behind it.

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Tuesday
27Oct2009

Those three balls?

The RKIL logo has a juggler with three balls in the air, and we have been asked more if there is some symbolism for those balls?

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Friday
23Oct2009

Window 7 - How the desktop world has changed

With Microsoft's release of Windows 7 and Apple's Release of OS 10.6 the world of personal computers has slipped quietly into a new era.

On the shelf beside my desk are a series of disk recovery utilities that were once a key part of my kit. System crashes and the need to completely rebuild a disk or server were a regular part of what was required to be in the business. I have not needed to update those utilities in years, because the systems have been so stable.

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