Categorised as: Project Management & News
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Career memes of the week: project manager News
21.05.2013 Thirty-nine per cent of projects valued in excess of €5.9m fail, and only 2.5pc of 10,500 projects from 200 international companies have been successfully completed, studies... -
Communications industry’s credit union ESCCU deploys e-banking News
15.02.2013 E-Services and Communications Credit Union, the credit union for Ireland’s communications industry for more than 50 years and which has €170m under management, has deployed a... -
4,300 new jobs on cards as Intel gets planning permission to build US$4bn 14nm chip plant in Ireland News
24.01.2013 Ireland’s lead planning agency An Bord Pleanála has given chip giant Intel the go-ahead it needs to construct a massive US$4bn chip plant that will produce the next generation...Categories: Servers, Project Management, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Digital Media, Development, Design, Computers -
Ireland listed among top FDI locations for BPO and managed services News
03.01.2013 Ireland has been named as one of the top 5 locations in the world for business services investments – an area that touches on foreign direct investments in the areas of IT,...Categories: Project Management, Outsourcing, Management, IT Management, Investments, Financial Results, Digital Business, CIO -
Cork-headquartered PCH International to create 50 new jobs in Silicon Valley News
24.10.2012 Corkman Liam Casey’s PCH International – a global product design and development giant – is to create at least 50 new jobs at its new US headquarters in San Francisco, California.Categories: Supply Chain Management, R&D, Project Management, Phones, Peripherals, Hardware, Digital Business, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Why Microsoft wants Yammer – enterprise social is booming News
18.06.2012 Microsoft’s quest to acquire enterprise social software player Yammer for more than US$1bn is being driven by the growing adoption of social media as the lynchpin of enterprise... -
New ISA post-grad software degrees are first of their kind globally News
03.05.2012 The Irish Software Association (ISA) Skillnet last night unveiled two new post-graduate level qualifications in the area of product management which are understood to be the...Categories: Upskilling, Training, R&D, Project Management, Intellectual Property, Enterprise, Education -
Sharp fall in project management use among Irish firms – survey News
19.04.2012 Fewer Irish organisations are using project management methodologies compared to three years ago, and the number using them to drive business strategy has declined considerably,... -
Eircom reveals locations for Phase 2 of fibre rollout News
05.04.2012 Incumbent telecoms operator Eircom, which last week sought examinership in the High Court, today revealed the locations for Phase 2 of its fibre rollout in Ireland. -
BPO consulting firm raises €1.2m, plans to create 20 jobs News
08.03.2012 Prisa Consulting, a new business process outsourcing (BPO) technology company headed by former Damovo Ireland boss John McCabe, is to invest €1.25m over the next three years to... -
Self-starters to talk female entrepreneurship at seminar News
06.03.2012 Against the backdrop of this Thursday being International Women’s Day, entrepreneurs, including Lauren Fisher of Simply Zesty and Gráinne Barry of Anotherfriend.com, will be... -
Ireland’s energy infrastructure challenges – report News
27.02.2012 Engineers Ireland has today brought out its analysis of Ireland’s energy infrastructure. According to the body, Ireland’s energy infrastructure in Ireland has served the country...Categories: Careers and Employment, Communications, Economy, Education, Energy, Engineer, Engineering, Green, Green Tech, Investments, Project Management, R&D, Science -
HP tech jobs bonanza – 280 more jobs for Ireland News
09.02.2012 Technology giant HP is bringing 280 new jobs to Ireland – these will consist of 150 new R&D roles plus 130 technical and support roles. -
US investment in clean-tech firms hit US$4.9bn in 2011 News
01.02.2012 Despite a challenging economic climate, US venture capital (VC) investments in clean-tech companies hit US$4.9bn in 2011, according to a new Ernst & Young clean-tech investment...Categories: Science, R&D, Project Management, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Global CIO, Funding, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Interview with Eric Ries: ‘high uncertainty is your best friend’ News
20.01.2012 Tech start-up supremo, Harvard entrepreneur-in-residence and author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup Eric Ries talks to Siliconrepublic.com about how... -
DIT spearheads product management post-grad for IT sector News
20.01.2012 A new post-graduate qualification in product management for the Irish software and technology sectors created by a group of Irish software companies will be launched at Dublin... -
20 new jobs for Limerick as CETRA rolls into town News
05.01.2012 US language translation company CETRA is to generate 20 new jobs in Limerick as part of an IDA Ireland-supported investment.Categories: Media, Life Sciences, Jobs, Investments, Government, Multimedia, Project Management, Software & Web Development -
IBM acquires Green Hat - move will reduce cost of cloud testing News
04.01.2012 IBM’s acquisitions spree is continuing with news today that the technology giant has acquired UK-headquartered software quality and testing player Green Hat. -
HAXLR8R offers start-ups chance to ‘build’ next big thing News
09.12.2011 Hardware start-ups are being offered a unique chance to join the 111-day HAXLR8R accelerator programme starting in March in Shenzhen, China, where they will be mentored by... -
CIOs need to break with the past; choose security over hardware News
07.12.2011 CIOs crave order, not chaos, and while trends like the consumerisation of IT appear to present both challenge and opportunity, CIOs have bigger fish to fry in terms of strategy...