Browsing College of Engineering and Informatics by Author "O'Sullivan, David"
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Auditing best practice for effective product innovation management
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (Science Direct, 2004-10)Over the past number of years, researchers and industrialists have recognised the need for and the importance of developing approaches to enhance competitive advantage in new product development. However, the product ... -
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 ... -
A collaborative knowledge management tool for product innovation management
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (Inderscience Publishers, 2003)Contemporary business systems are becoming increasingly competitive. Faster and smarter technology, although imperative, is not enough to survive in dynamic environments. Modern enterprises must adopt a deliberate and ... -
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 ... -
Groupware architecture for R&D managers
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (2004)The business environment is changing at an accelerated pace. Contemporary business systems are becoming more knowledge intensive. This is particularly evident in areas such as product innovation where knowledge centric ... -
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 ... -
A groupware system for virtual product innovation management
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (Wiley Interscience, 2007)We are experiencing a radical shift in the way organisations are designed, structured and organised. New organisational forms such as virtual strategic partnerships and networks are replacing traditional bureaucratic, ... -
A groupware system for virtual product innovation management
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (Wiley, 2007-10-11)We are experiencing a radical shift in the way organizations are designed, structured, and organized. New organizational forms such as virtual strategic partnerships and networks are replacing traditional bureaucratic, ... -
Idea management for organisational Innovation
Cormican, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, David (World Scientific, 2003-12)Modern organisations are under ever increasing competitive pressure to maintain market share, enhance product range, improve efficiency and reduce cost. The process by which organisations attain these improvements is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Virtual team environment for collaborative research projects
Precup, Lavinia; O'Sullivan, David; Cormican, Kathryn (2006)One of the main limiting factors that reduce the potential output the innovation projects, involving different organisations and individuals from different geographical areas, is the poor communication and knowledge sharing ... -
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 ...