Browsing Mechanical Engineering by Author "Cormican, Kathryn"
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Product innovation management: Towards a constructive guide
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)Manufacturing companies rely heavily on successful new product innovation to maintain profits. Moreover, research indicates that new products will account for a greater percentage of profits in the future (Crawford, 1996). ... -
Product manager: A decision support tool for design engineers
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (1999)The new product development process is the lifeblood of all manufacturing enterprises. Many tools and techniques have been developed in an attempt to make this process more efficient and effective. However, in spite of ... -
Product portfolio management: An analysis of a large medical device company
Cormican, Kathryn (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013-07)This paper focuses on product portfolio management in a large multinational medical device organisation. The contribution of this research is to provide insights into the nature, composition and decision making processes ... -
Project management for engineers
Cormican, Kathryn (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016)In recent years we have witnessed a rapid growth in the use of project management methods and tools as a means by which organisations achieve their objectives. Projects drive business in industries as diverse as ... -
Project management: learning manual for Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical Science, NUI Galway
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Requirements of SME's for effective innovation management
Cormican, Kathryn; Mulligan, David; O'Sullivan, David (2003)Innovation has become one of the most important and effective ways of obtaining and sustaining competitive dominance in the market place over the past number of years. No longer can organisation depend the traditional ... -
A review of the last ten years of research presented at the annual International Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) conference
Cormican, Kathryn (2004)The 10th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the history of the conference and how it has developed and evolved over the last 10 years. The purpose of ... -
A scorecard for supporting enterprise knowledge management
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2003)Enterprise knowledge management is becoming a critical component of competitive success. Managers must ensure that they can successfully generate, leverage and reuse knowledge assets in their organisations. In this view, ... -
SME collaboration: Trick or Treat?
Cormican, Kathryn (2008)Collaboration is a major new source of competitive advantage and an essential regional, and indeed, global management requirement. The collaboration process will ultimately be successful if there is an existence of appropriate ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organisation
Cormican, Kathryn; Cunningham, Michael (2007)Purpose - Progressive organisations are developing proactive supplier-based strategies in order to integrate key suppliers into their processes and systems. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach that helps ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organization
Cormican, Kathryn (2005-07-03)There are ever-increasing demands from customers for more manufacturing agility in the form of higher product variety, smaller production runs of more customised products and batch sizes with shorter delivery times. To ... -
Supporting systems innovation
Dooley, Lawrence; Cormican, Kathryn; Wreath, Siobhan; O'Sullivan, David (World Scientific Publishing, 2000)Many researchers and practitioners contend that organisations should respond to changing market need and create competitive advantage through innovation and creativity. Each year, organisations expend significant resources ... -
Sustaining multi-national subsidiaries operations in the electronics industry in Ireland
Cormican, Kathryn (2010-09)US multi-national corporations' (MNC) subsidiaries operating in the electronics industry represent a significant and important grouping of the high tech manufacturing sector in Ireland based on the number of people employed, ... -
Systems innovation management: Supporting innovation in a manufacturing environment
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David; Yu, Ming; Dooley, Lawrence; Wreath, Siobhan (1999)Each year organisations spend a significant amount of money developing new products and processes in an effort to satisfy customer demands and manufacture high quality products efficiently. Both development processes - ... -
Systems innovation tools
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (1999)Manufacturing organisations are continuously innovating their systems and processes in order to survive in today¿s turbulent environment. There are currently a number of software tools available on the market, which can ... -
Technology innovation and entrepreneurship: learning manual for the Diploma in Technology Commercialisation
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Technology Transfer for Product Life Cycle Extension: A Model for Successful Implementation
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Connor, Michael (2009)This paper examines the logistical and operational issues relating to technology transfer. It documents the specific problems encountered as well as the solution designed to overcome these problems. The paper presents a ... -
Technology transfer model
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Connor, Michael (2007)According to Burgleman and Maidique (1998) the ability to undertake technology transfer is a key capability for an organisation. It enables them to extend their product life cycles when older technologies mature. Technology ... -
Towards effective knowledge management: a requirements analysis of European manufacturing SMEs
Cormican, Kathryn; Van Leeuwen, Manon (IOS Press, 2006)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within European organisations in general, and because of their importance to the economy Manufacturing SMEs in particular. The key challenges facing such organisations are ... -
Towards effective knowledge management: An analysis of European manufacturing SMEs
Cormican, Kathryn (2006)Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within European organisations in general and because of their importance to the economy Manufacturing SMEs in particular. The key challenges that face such organisations ...