Perspectives on business, technology, and innovation.
March 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Operations has always been where strategy becomes real. AI is not just improving performance. It is redefining the mandate of operations leadership entirely.
February 23, 2026 · 12 min read
Forty-two percent of companies abandon AI initiatives before production. We share what we learned from two years in the AI coding tool landscape.
February 11, 2026 · 6 min read
AI is accelerating decision-making faster than human systems can adapt. We explore why emotional intelligence is becoming the most critical leadership capability in the age of AI.
November 6, 2025 · 10 min read
In this interview with Arageek MasterMinds, Innavera’s founder shares the company’s founding story, its three-pillar model, and lessons from building across the Middle East and North America.
October 14, 2025 · 10 min read
The UAE ranked second globally in FDI in 2024, with non-oil sectors at 77% of GDP. We break down the regulatory shifts and trade dynamics driving expansion.
September 22, 2025 · 10 min read
Growing companies pay an invisible tax when their web agency, marketing freelancer, and IT consultant all operate from different playbooks.
June 9, 2025 · 9 min read
MENA startup funding hit $3.2B in 2024, and the UAE climbed to the top five globally in AI readiness. The region’s tech ecosystem is now competitive.
March 17, 2025 · 9 min read
AI agents take actions, make decisions, and operate autonomously. For enterprises, this is the biggest shift in how work gets done since the spreadsheet.
November 11, 2024 · 9 min read
Between hiring full-time and outsourcing to freelancers, a third model is emerging: the fractional operating team. One partner replaces ten vendors.
June 3, 2024 · 9 min read
COP28 put a global spotlight on the UAE. Six months later, the lasting impact is an acceleration of investment, diversification, and regulatory reform.
February 19, 2024 · 9 min read
Fewer than 35% of enterprise AI pilots reach production. The bottleneck is not the model. It is the data, the infrastructure, and the willingness to change.
October 2, 2023 · 8 min read
Global venture funding fell 42% in 2023. The companies that survive funding winters share something in common: they were built on fundamentals, not narrative.
June 12, 2023 · 9 min read
The UAE published its national AI strategy in 2017. Over 60 countries now have AI roadmaps. Government AI adoption holds lessons most enterprises are ignoring.
February 20, 2023 · 9 min read
ChatGPT hit 100 million users in two months. For most organizations, the question is how to use generative AI without wasting months on dead-end experiments.
November 14, 2022 · 8 min read
The accelerator model gave founders mentorship and a demo day. The venture studio model gives them a co-founder, a team, and shared operating infrastructure.
July 11, 2022 · 9 min read
While Western headlines covered crypto crashes and tech layoffs, the Gulf was building. UAE non-oil GDP hit 7.9% in 2022, with record startup funding.
March 21, 2022 · 9 min read
Seventy percent of digital transformation initiatives fail to reach their goals. The problem is not technology. Nobody owns the outcome.
November 8, 2021 · 9 min read
Canada-UAE trade hit $2.4B in 2021. Dubai Expo 2020 opened the door for cross-border business. The case for Canadian founders to look east is strong.
June 15, 2021 · 8 min read
McKinsey found companies accelerated digital adoption by seven years in months. The organizations that moved fastest during COVID are now compounding that lead.
January 25, 2021 · 8 min read
Eighty percent of mid-sized Canadian companies feel unprepared for global expansion. Thinking internationally is a necessity, not a luxury.
November 2, 2020 · 3 min read
Innavera portfolio company DoctorCare, the national leader in billing-as-a-service for Canadian physicians, was acquired by Well Health for CAD $18M.
January 24, 2020 · 2 min read
Hasan Makansi met with H.E. Fahd Al Raqbani, UAE Ambassador to Canada, to discuss cross-border innovation ecosystem collaboration and bilateral trade opportunities.
February 17, 2018 · 10 min read
Five industry-led superclusters, $950M in federal funding, and $1.5B in private sector matching. Canada is making its biggest coordinated bet on innovation.
January 24, 2018 · 9 min read
Diply generates 5B social impressions monthly. Then Facebook changed its algorithm. What happens when your business depends on someone else’s platform?
June 15, 2017 · 4 min read
Ontario’s Labour Minister recognized the successful delivery of the Workplace Violence Prevention initiative. Here is what the project demanded.
May 15, 2017 · 8 min read
Ontario’s healthcare workers faced workplace violence at rates dwarfing every other sector. I led the first joint two-ministry initiative since the SARS crisis.
August 13, 2015 · 11 min read
Most startup failures are attributed to founders. But the data from 2015 tells a different story: the ecosystems around startups matter more than the founders inside them.
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