Categorised as: Leadership & Management
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#OI2Dublin - Innovation Luminary Awards celebrate innovation leadership News
21.05.2013 The CEO of the Irish Internet Association Joan Mulvihill is among luminaries such as physicist Stephen Hawking and space skydiver Felix Baumgartner after having received a... -
#OI2Dublin – Interview with Alexander Osterwalder of Business Model Canvas fame (video) News
20.05.2013 Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is today employed by companies worldwide, from Ericsson to General Electric, but it all began as a PhD dissertation back in the...Categories: Leadership & Management, Business IntelligenceTags: Open Innovation 2.0 -
#OI2Dublin - Innovation about execution, not just invention, says EIT’s Alexander von Gabain News
20.05.2013 As the innovation elite began to converge on Dublin for the Open Innovation 2.0 conference today and tomorrow, Ann O’Dea caught up with one of the visitors, Alexander Von...Tags: Start-ups, Biotechnology, US, Europe, OECD, Open Innovation 2.0, Entrepreneurship, KPMG, Venture Capital -
Work permit reforms have led to €10.5m in additional investment News
17.05.2013 In the past year, new work permit schemes in Ireland have brought in an estimated €10.5m of investment in terms of the creation and retention of 270 jobs in ICT, recycling and... -
Cloud visionary and RTÉ ‘dragon’ to chair Govt Entrepreneurship Forum News
17.05.2013 Entrepreneur and investor Sean O’Sullivan, credited by MIT for co-coining the term ‘cloud computing’, has been appointed chairman of an Entrepreneurship Advisory Forum by the... -
Former Intel CEO awarded Certificate of Irish Heritage News
17.05.2013 The former CEO and president of Intel Dr Craig Barrett, who presided over Intel’s original decision to locate major manufacturing operations in Ireland and resulting in some...Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Computers -
Finance giant Fidelity attributes Irish ingenuity in efforts to beat the IT skills gap News
16.05.2013 A graduate IT training programme developed in Ireland 10 years ago has emerged as the key weapon in global financial services company Fidelity’s efforts to overcome the skills... -
The five minute CIO: David Cahill News
17.05.2013 This week, the focus switches to security as AIB’s senior information security specialist talks about managing mobile devices, why real-world testing is important and user... -
Digiweb merger with Viatel creates pan-European fibre player News
15.05.2013 Digiweb has merged with Viatel, a London-based telecoms operator, creating a telecoms operator that will connect 34 Western European cities over an 8,500km fibre network. -
Allstate delivers 650 software jobs bonanza across Northern Ireland News
14.05.2013 Fortune 100 property insurer Allstate is to create up to 650 high quality technology jobs in Belfast, Derry and Strabane, it emerged today. -
Tech Defenders links tech community to protect human rights defenders News
14.05.2013 Tech Defenders, a new frontline group comprised of the tech community, is kicking off in Dublin this evening to support and protect people fighting for human rights in...Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Social Media, Security, Leadership & Management, Internet, Communications -
Ex-Google products chief launches social network for graduates and employers News
14.05.2013 Collegefeed, a new social network led by former Google head of product marketing Sanjeev Agrawal, opens its doors today. The new social network describes itself as a kind of... -
GreenTouch study says comms networks could cut energy consumption by 90pc by 2020 News
13.05.2013 As the GreenTouch consortium today shares findings of new global research, we spoke to its chairman Thierry Van Landegem, and to Thierry Klein, technical chair of GreenTouch,...Categories: Telecommunications, Networks, Mobile, Leadership & Management, Green Tech, Energy, Communications -
Roundtable: Facebook directors on Sheryl Sandberg and the Lean In phenomenon News
11.05.2013 With so much dialogue generated around Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-seller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Ann O’Dea caught up with two of Facebook’s most... -
Weekend news roundup: 3D gun designs, space station picks Linux over Windows XP News
13.05.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, Mega's founder wants 3D gun designs off the site, the International Space Station switches to Linux, and police...Categories: Web, Social Media, Operating Systems, Legal, Leadership & Management, Internet, Consumer Tech -
Microsoft appoints Amy Hood as its first female CFO News
10.05.2013 Microsoft has promoted Amy Hood, the CFO of its US$24.1bn business division, to CFO of the entire company, making her Microsoft’s first female chief financial officer and the... -
Eircom Group announces John Shine as new MD of Network division News
09.05.2013 Eircom Group’s Network division has a new managing director, John Shine, who comes to the telecoms company from electricity utility ESB. He begins his new job on 1 August. -
ESB names Bríd Horan as new deputy chief executive News
09.05.2013 ESB’s chief executive Pat O’Doherty has appointed Bríd Horan as deputy chief executive to replace John Shine, who is leaving the electricity company at the end of the month to... -
The technology business week: Irish coder (13) to address titans of Silicon Valley, Facebook reaps Q1 revenues of US$1.46bn News
07.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Intel, Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse, Eircom, Jack Dorsey, IPO, Twitter, Facebook, Jordan Casey