Browsing Mechanical Engineering (Conference Papers) by Author "Cormican, Kathryn"

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    • A happy threesome: Innovation, Creativity and Business Support 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2009)
      Businesses, whether for-profit and nonprofit, are facing change like never before. Numerous driving forces to this change include a rapidly expanding marketplace (globalization), and increasing competition, diversity among ...

    • ICT as an Opportunity for Regional Development: the Extremadura Case 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2007)
      The present paper describes the case of Extremadura Region as well as the lessons that can be learned from the processes of re-focussing its regional growth strategy. A brief introduction will show the way many regions or ...

    • Implementation of an AmI system in a Manufacturing SME 

      Gill, Simrn; Cormican, Kathryn (2008)
      SME's are facing greater challenges due to increased labour cost and reduced cycle times. To adapt to these challenges they need systems in place that will enable them to be flexible, effective and efficient. This is the ...

    • The influence of technology on the development of partnership relationships in the Irish construction industry 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2013)
      This paper investigates the potential for improvement in the construction supply chain management (SCM) given the current crisis in the Irish construction industry. The research was undertaken because of the need to improve ...

    • Innovation management for product and process development 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David; Browne, Jim; Yu, Ming; Dooley, Lawrence (2000)
      Industry we are told manages change poorly. Surveys indicate that over 50% of change programmes fail to meet objectives. The reasons cited are all too familiar: poor goal definition, poor alignment of actions to goals and ...

    • Key challenges for inter and intra enterprise knowledge transfer 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2004)
      Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed if improvement efforts are to succeed and businesses are to remain competitive in global markets. In recent years, researchers, consultants and practitioners have developed ...

    • Knowledge Management Practices in Service SMEs 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2012-01)
      Knowledge management is a critical component of competitive success in service organizations. Knowledge management centers on creating new knowledge and utilizing existing knowledge. While utilizing existing knowledge ...

    • Knowledge sharing in manufacturing SMEs 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2007)
      This paper reports on a study of European manufacturing SMEs in the metallurgical sector. The goal of the research is to ascertain the extent and nature of knowledge sharing that takes place within these organisations; the ...

    • Managing enterprise networks: Support structures for SMEs 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2005)
      In an increasingly competitive global economy, small to medium sized enterprises (SME) realise that they must work together in order to survive. They must learn to share their experiences and knowledge and pool their ...

    • Measuring and benchmarking digital literacy strategies and efforts: the BENTLI project 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2006)
      There are numerous interesting strategies in place in Europe, a large majority of them initiated and executed by regional or local government institutions, more or less successful in addressing groups with a high risk of ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • 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 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 ...