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Thunder Bay's Digital Transformation Journey Series - Modernizing Municipal Services

In part 1 of our Thunder Bay digital series, we look at Perry Group Consulting, working with the City of Thunder Bay, helping the City rethink the city's planning and building services, setting the stage for a modernization effort to help usher Thunder Bay into the digital era.

January 24, 2024

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Perry Group and MISA Canada Webinar: The City of Thunder Bay's digital journey

On Wednesday 14th February, 2024 at 2.00 - 3.00 Perry Group and MISA Canada are hosting an online webinar to present the City of Thunder Bay’s digital journey.

January 8, 2024

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Housing Affordability: Perry Group Planning and Permitting Modernization Practice

Every municipality across the country is under pressure to build more homes to address the housing affordability crisis.

August 1, 2023

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Welcome Back Steve Grisé

After a stint getting his hands dirty running some gigantic first run Utility GIS projects in the States and pushing the envelope with ArcPro, Steve Grise is back working with Perry Group on GIS and Data strategies, tactics, solution design and solution development.

July 14, 2023

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Thoughts on Recruiting and Retaining Digital and IT People

We are seeing a common challenge on almost every project we are currently working on: our clients are struggling to recruit.

May 2, 2023

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Perry Group joins MISA Canada National Partner Program

Perry Group is delighted to announce that it has become a proud member of MISA’s National Partner Program.

May 1, 2023

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Announcement: New Perry Group Vice President

Perry Group is pleased and super excited to announce the appointment of our first Vice President - Susan Chase.

April 3, 2023

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Drinking Water Internship Program in Indigenous Communities – World Water Day

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #6 is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030.

March 21, 2023

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Announcement: Dan Munns Joining Perry Group

We are really pleased to announce that Dan Munns is joining the Perry Group team.

March 8, 2023

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Quick Update

We know that things have been quiet on the news front here for a little while - but things have been far from quiet at Perry Group!

November 1, 2022

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Welcoming Dana Clarke

We are excited to welcome Dana Clarke to our growing team.

May 2, 2022

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Water Stewardship in Indigenous Communities – Water First

Perry Group is a proud supporter of Water First and here we explore the work of Water First ahead of World Water Day on the 22nd March, including a first here - a special podcast episode.

March 17, 2022

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Upcoming Event: Future of Cities - Communitech Webinar

Ben Perry will be speaking at and participating in the CityAge / Communitech Future of Cities event on March 3rd, 2022.

February 25, 2022

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WEBINAR: City of Greater Sudbury: Experiences in IT Governance

We’ve been hugely impressed by how the City of Greater Sudbury has embraced, owned and advanced the technology and digital strategy that we worked together on in 2018.

February 18, 2022

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Digital, Technology and Transformation Consulting Opportunities

As a result of continuing and growing demand for the type of work we do, Perry Group is again looking across Canada for super-smart people to join our consulting team.

February 7, 2022

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Perry Group at 5

This month Perry Group will have been in business for a full 5 years. The adage "time flies when you are having fun" is clearly true.

January 24, 2022

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Digital Planning and Permitting

We think planning, development and permitting is one area in municipalities where there is much-untapped potential for using digital capabilities to streamline, simplify and accelerate the services that municipalities offer, while offering improved customer experiences.

January 21, 2022

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Digital Lessons from The Beatles

As I’m sure many of you did over the Christmas holidays, I sat down to enjoy the rare and special treat of watching The Beatles: Get Back documentary on Disney +.

January 4, 2022

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Digital Strategy Community Explainer

Over the past year or so we have refined our messaging and updated the video that we use with communities to introduce work on a Digital Strategy.

October 28, 2021

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Fall 2021 - Projects Roundup

The Perry Group team has been firing on all cylinders for all of 2021 working on a large variety of projects. We thought we would provide a quick update on just some of the projects that we have been and are working on.

October 28, 2021

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Upcoming MISA Webinar - Implementing a Strategic Plan, even During a Pandemic

Ben Perry from our team will be facilitating a discussion with Erin Britnell, and Chris Walker, IT leaders from Caledon and Ajax on Thursday May 13th at 11.00am. This is one of MISA Ontario’s webinar series.

May 12, 2021

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Welcoming Jeff Lanaus

We are super excited to have Jeff Lanaus join our team from the Town of Oakville.

March 4, 2021

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Lincoln - Corporate Systems Master Plan

Work that we have been doing with partners over the last year is starting to see the light of day - and we’ll do our best to highlight that work here.

March 2, 2021

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Meeting Check-In Questions

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February 20, 2021

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Welcoming Andy Will

Next up as another fantastic addition to our growing team is Andy Will.

February 18, 2021