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    • Re-boot learning: providing an e-tivity scaffold for engagement for early research activity through blog technology embedded within teaching and learning 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta; O'Dea, Majella (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)
      Increasing student numbers in higher education over the last decade has challenged educational environments. The challenge for educators is to re-think learning environments and delivery methods such that a student-educator ...
    • 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 ...
    • Scale-up of bileaflet mechanical heart valve for enhanced resolution of the unsteady flow field 

      Bellofiore, Alessandro; Donohue, Eilis M; Quinlan, Nathan J. (University of Limerick, 2009-01-30)
    • Serious Play as a method for process design 

      Dempsey, Mary; Riedel, Ralph; Kelly, Martina (Springer, 2014-09-20)
      As motivating and including people is a crucial aspect in any plan-ning, design and change process there is always a need for appropriate methods and tools to support this. Lego Serious Play (LSP) is such a method which ...
    • 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 ...
    • The student voice: the students own views on smartphone usage and impact on their academic performance 

      Brennan, A.; Dempsey, Mary (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)
      By the time they are 12 years of age, 90% of Irish children will have a smartphone (Bielenberg, 2017). This rise in smartphone ownership has meant that mobile technology has become an integral part of our daily lives. ...
    • 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 global collaboration teams through innovative Web 2.0 technologies. 

      Dempsey, Mary; Gormley, Paul; Riedel, Ralph (Fraunhofer-Verlag, 2011)
      Enhanced collaboration among multicultural European countries is necessary for effective enterprise development and innovation. The current climate of an increasingly competitive global economy provides opportunities to ...
    • Supporting online students through the liminal space from facilitated online modules to self-starting a thesis 

      O'Dea, M.; Brennan, A.; Dempsey, Mary (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)
      Most third-level institutes now offer online education (Bowers & Kumar, 2015). Allen et al. (2016) report that in excess of 28% of all American higher education students are enrolled on at least one online course. Online ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Towards Empathic Design in the Irish Medical Device Industry 

      Cormican, Kathryn (2012-05)
      The goal of this study is twofold (a) to identify whether empathic design methods are used in the medical device industry in Ireland and (b) to identify the challenges faced by designers when implementing empathic design ...
    • Turbocharging the journey into the liminal space and beyond 

      Dempsey, Mary; Brennan, Attracta (International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2017-03-06)
      In the last decade, tertiary educational environments accommodated increasing student numbers (Reidy, 2015) while remaining competitive in differentiating their programmes in an arena of MOOCs (Alraimi, Zo, & Ciganek, ...
    • Understanding ambient intelligence: Typologies for systems development 

      Cormican, Kathryn; Gill, Simrn (2006)
      This paper examines the concept of ambient intelligence (AmI). Currently research in this field is ambiguous. There are not many definitions and consequently it is difficult to understand the concept. This paper seeks to ...
    • Vertebral fractures in Ireland: A sub-analysis of the DXA HIP Project 

      Yang, Lan; Carey, John; Erjiang, E.; Wang, Tingyan; Gorham, Kelly; Egan, Rebecca; Brennan, Attracta; Dempsey, Mary; Armstrong, Catherine; Heaney, Fiona; Yu, Ming (Elsevier, 2021-04-30)
      The vertebrae are the commonest site of osteoporotic fracture osteoporosis, are associated with the highest mortality, and a huge illness burden. Some have questioned the value of screening for spine fractures, but studies ...
    • 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 ...