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    • Environmental business management 

      Dempsey, Mary; Gallagher, Norbert; O'Kelly, M.E.J. (Irish Manufacturing Committee, 1995-09-06)
      In today's competitive environment, pressure is placed on companies to develop environmentally friendly processes and products. Customers are becoming increasingly interested in environmentally friendly products and ...
    • Operations strategy development and implementation: a self assessment matrix 

      Dempsey, Mary; Donnellan, P.; O'Kelly, M.E.J. (Irish Manufacturing Committee, 1996)
      In both the increasingly competitve and the continuously changing business environment existing today, increasing pressure is placed on companies to maintain and improve their profitability. Managment teams are becoming ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 - ...
    • A comparison of student outcomes from an internet-based inventory simulation 

      Bruce, Raymond C.; Dempsey, Mary (Western Decision Sciences Institute, 1999-04-06)
      The increasing globalization and global integration of national economies suggests the necessity of developing pedagogy that infuses global content throughout the business school curriculum. Business school graduates need ...
    • Developing a self assessment audit to support product innovation management 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)
      Product innovation is critical to the success of most design and manufacturing enterprises. It is widely recognised that effective co ordination, organisation and management affects product innovation success rates. Self ...
    • Enterprise knowledge management 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)
      The knowledge-based theory of a firm suggests that knowledge is the only remaining sustainable resource that can provide competitive advantage in dynamic environments. Knowledge is a key resource that must be actively ...
    • A collaborative knowledge management tool for product innovation 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)
      In order to create and deliver innovative new products and services at an ever increasing rate, manufacturing enterprises must adopt a deliberate and systematic approach to managing the drivers of innovation. Managing the ...
    • 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). ...
    • A web enabled solution for managing distributed product innovation 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2000)
      New organisational forms such as strategic partnerships and networks are replacing simple market based transactions and traditional bureaucratic, hierarchical organisations. Consequently, a new conception of product design ...
    • 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 ...
    • Enterprise modeling for the customer focused company 

      Cormican, Kathryn; Shang, Yue (2002)
      The business environment is changing at an accelerated pace. Consequently, continuous systemic changes within companies are imperative. We are witnessing a shift in the way organizations are designed, structured and ...
    • An assessment of new product development in the Irish pharmaceutical industry 

      Enright, S. and Cormican, K (2003)
      In today's competitive drug development environment, Irish pharmaceutical companies are moving towards more knowledge base activities. These companies must focus on new product development (NPD) firstly to remain competitive ...
    • 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 groupware system for product innovation management 

      Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2004)
      We are experiencing a radical shift in the way organisations are designed, structured and organised. New organisational forms such as strategic partnerships and networks are replacing simple market based transactions and ...
    • Creativity toolkit for R&D managers 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2004)
      In this, the twenty first century, 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. Many firms are ...
    • Collaboration and enterprise networks: What about SMEs? 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2004)
      This paper describes the research and analysis realised in relation to the creation of enterprise networks, based on the networked enterprise model, in European SMEs. It focuses on the barriers to inter-firm collaboration ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...