In the continuing row over Facebook’s privacy, or lack thereof, a number of interesting perspectives have been offered about shifting demographics and shifting notions of online privacy. The first perspective is from Wired.com author, Fred Vogelstein. He interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and/or senior management at least 12 times over the past three years. I [...]
05.31.10 | Innovation, Media, Technology | John P. Muldoon
It has long been held that firms seeking to be entrepreneurial need to be innovative, risk taking and proactive. In 1996, academics added competitiveness and autonomy to the mix. The video below — which I found out about by way of Mike Waddell at http://creativeleader.co.uk/ — offers a different take on autonomy. It turns out [...]
05.26.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
Continuing their series of talks at the Irish Computer Society (ICS), Michael O’Duffy of DCU’s Centre for Software Engineering and David Trevitt of Business Knowledge Innovation advised on how to exploit innovation. Their talk was the third in a series on the subject. O’Duffy cited research that design is the core to market differentiation. Most [...]
05.24.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
Well, that was the last of Prof. Joe Peppard’s three-lecture CIO Masterclass at the Irish Computer Society (ICS). The final seminar was on “Managing Change In Large IT Implementations.” Like his first two talks, this one was less technical and more about how to manage change and the people around it. My account of the [...]
05.19.10 | Innovation, Organisation, Personal Effectiveness, Politics, Technology | John P. Muldoon
There were some inspiring stories about innovation in this week’s Sunday Business Post (now behind a paywall), and then there was one cautionary tale from David McWilliams on how harmful government can be to struggling businesses. First the good news: Innovation does not have to come in the form of a blockbuster company like Nokia [...]
05.17.10 | Economics, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Politics | John P. Muldoon
I read an interesting article on reverse innovation on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) website, and this led to an October 2009 article from the magazine itself, and that led me to worry that little ol’ Ireland could very easily get left behind in the innovation stakes. The blog piece by Vijay Govindarajan, professor of international [...]
05.13.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Politics | John P. Muldoon
More excitement — politics and stereotypes — at the Irish Computer Society (ICS) this week. This time, it came in the form of Prof. Joe Peppard of Cranfield University School of Management. His seminar was Leading and implementing change in IT projects: Politics and the IT Stereotype. Engaging and informative, Peppard tackled the problem of [...]
05.12.10 | Organisation, Personal Effectiveness, Politics, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Sometimes it’s easy to see how consultants make their money. Imagine senior management at a company that wants or needs innovative ideas. Where do they come from? Should they hire someone innovative? Or hire someone to tell them how to be innovative? In the second of their talks on the topic at the Irish Computer [...]
05.8.10 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation | John P. Muldoon
