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# Netfore Systems and Stratford in the OBJ

One of Ottawa’s fastest growing companies, NetFore Systems was recently interviewed along side Stratford in the Ottawa Business Journal

 Nov 9, 2018, 12:00:00 AM

One of Ottawa's (and Canada's) fastest growing companies, [NetFore Systems](http://www.netfore.com/)' CEO, [Ken Workun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenworkun/) and President [Allen Carpenter ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-carpenter-238454/)were recently interviewed along side Stratford's Tim Skelly, VP Strategy and Business Operations in an Ottawa Business Journal article titled "[How Ottawa firms can manage the challenges from rapid growth](https://obj.ca/how-ottawa-firms-can-manage-the-challenges-from-rapid-growth/)".

The article focused on the specific growth challenges faced by NetFore Systems and other common "growing pains" associated with fast growth companies. In the [research](https://stratford.group/whatsnew/stratford-managers-and-invest-ottawa-team-up-to-conduct-research-on-high-growth-businesses/) developed by Tim Skelley and Invest Ottawa on rapidly growing organizations, Tim remarks in the article how he hopes the research will help to educate and support other fast growth organizations like NetFore Systems here in Ottawa:

> “We want to let them know they are not alone in their business challenges, that there are processes and organizations that can assist them and that there are examples and case studies for those that have broken through the plateau."

You can read the full article here on the [Ottawa Business Journal](https://obj.ca/how-ottawa-firms-can-manage-the-challenges-from-rapid-growth/).

 

*[UPDATE] As of Jan. 15, 2021, Ottawa’s Stratford Managers Corporation has become Stratford Group Ltd.*

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