Q4 was recently named as one of Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies by PROFIT Magazine, as part of the 10th annual PROFIT HOT 50 ranking and awards program.
Canada’s Emerging Growth Companies are a tiny elite. Most of the tens of thousands of businesses launched each year in this country fail within a few years. Even among the survivors, only a precious few expand at anything close to the blistering pace of the PROFIT HOT 50, whose revenue growth averaged 1,007% over the past two years.
In spite of sectoral downturns, qualified worker …

We’ve been so busy the last couple of weeks we haven’t been able to announce a new addition to Q4.
Sheryl Joyce, joined us on April 14, as Director of Marketing Communications and is responsible for all marketing and communications initiatives such as blogging, webinars, events and best practices. Sheryl has twelve years experience in the capital markets industry, nine of those specializing in investor relations.  Sheryl brings years of experience in investor relations and corporate communications and maintains well-established relationships with sell-side analysts, institutional …

Ok, it’s been almost a year but nonetheless, this is officially the 2nd year into implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4.  We kicked off our annual and Q1 2009 priorities yesterday with the whole company and now that we’ve gone through the process a few times we seem to be much more efficient at it.
I think what I enjoy most about the process for implementing the Rockefeller Habits is that it’s actually very similar to using Agile processes for developing software:

Focus on the highest value items first
Make progress on those …

Last year was a great year for all of us here at Q4.  We officially launched Q4 PRESS and also launched a major version of Q4 WEB that included RSS feeds, Google Maps, photo galleries and a host of other improvements.
Anyone who has worked for company experiencing explosive growth can appreciate the difficulties that come with it and the the importance of maintaining focus with respect to corporate objectives.  Chris Jones posted back in July with respect to our adoption of the …

Q4 Web Systems is looking for senior .Net developers with Agile/TDD or XP experience to develop software for our suite of web based disclosure products.  The primary responsibility will be to maintain the core product code for our Q4 WEB and Q4 PRESS products.  This includes application architecture design and development accounting for new releases, rollouts, upgrades and ensuring scalability.
Q4 Web Systems is an Agile organization ( using Scrum) and to be considered, the candidates must be able to demonstrate the qualities associated with working in an Agile environment.  You …

As Jason mentioned in his previous post, we are getting ready to kick off a busy summer quarter. With this, we have a new set of priorities and goals that we want to achieve. This is going to be our second quarter implementing the Rockefeller habits, we learned a lot the first time around and will be aiming to improve the way we track and score our progress.
One of the biggest changes we are making this time around is in the area of product development, implementations and support. …

Q4 Web Systems is looking for a kick-ass senior .NET developer.  If you are a technology junkie and your idea of fun is spending a Saturday night reading about Team Foundation Server 2008 or playing with Silverlight 2.0 just because it’s cool, we want you!
You will become assimilated into our product development team where you will be responsible for the product advancement of our 2 application suites.   You will participate in design and architecture reviews, code reviews and write code with automated testing in mind.
Q4 offers a great environment as …

I was reading an interesting blog post the other day about how to live in the present when you feel overwhelmed and how that can affect your personal and professional life.
The article talks about the 3 states a person generally lives in at any given time; past, future and present.  I’m sure just about everyone uses their cell phone while driving, or has the news on TV while eating dinner and while checking email on their blackberry.  All of this multi-tasking leads to a drop …