Duncans Information

We believe that the computer business is the fastest changing business in the world, and that when you go looking for a computer, the number one thing you should look for is its ability to be changed. So, by building the computers ourselves we are able to offer our clients "upgradeable" computers, computers that we can change easily. Then, we are able to do one more thing which is perhaps even more important: we really do upgrade our customers computers. So that means that they come back, eight months, or a year later, and ask us to change their motherboards or microprocessors. We take back those components we sold them initially as trade-ins towards their new componentry. That permits our clients to change a lot easier and a lot more affordably, and that makes them likely to change more often as well. Did you take advantage of any Canadian trends when you established Duncans? Something like that right now the population is gradually getting older, or computerization of the workforce? No. I have always felt that we Canadians have been slow to embrace computer technology. We are pretty sleepy about it. We should be playing an enormous role on the global stage as technology leaders, showing, by example, how technology can enhance our lives. My brother, Dr. Gaylen Duncan , as President and CEO of ITAC, the Information Technology Association of Canada, participates in setting world vision for Canada's IT sector. He regularly shares with me his global perspectives of the opportunities we have as a Nation to effect positive change in our lives and the lives of others around the world through computer expertise. I do not think that Canadians are entrepreneurs. I think that the whole Canadian approach and thinking towards business is entirely too modest. I think that Canadians, especially here in Regina, Saskatchewan, lack vision, and that we lack purpose and goals. Furthermore I think that we live each day with a mind set where we don't put large demands and challenges on ourselves or on our young people. I think ...