There is more to exporting that just slapping up a German, French or Chinese version of your website. What sounds like a lovely recipe to an Irish audience, for example, could turn French stomachs, said Ross O’Loughlin of Translations.com. And direct translations of marketing blurb by non-native speakers can have hilarious consequences, he said. [...]
02.18.12 | Uncategorized | John P. Muldoon
Prof. Joe Peppard
02.14.12 | Management, Organisation, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Prof. Joe Peppard outlines the gap between Information Services and Information Technology, and the push-pull tension with business technology
02.12.12 | Innovation, Management, Organisation, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Does a shortage of resources hurt innovation? And what can innovation practitioners do to ensure companies are ready for the upturn?
02.9.12 | Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
This is Part II. Part I is here. Another example, O’Carroll told of was a businessman with 40 years’ franchising experience who has developed a franchised early education model for kids in deprived areas. Despite, or because of the recession, EI has seen a jump in the number of business proposals coming their way, O’Neill [...]
02.8.12 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
Despite a national mood of doom, where the only relief seems to be bouts of gloom, the feeling in Ireland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is positively buoyant. At a good-humoured and lively panel discussion in the MBA Association of Ireland’s Beauchamp’s Speaker Series, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists gave an upbeat assessment of Ireland’s current start-up climate. Some [...]
02.7.12 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
What’s wrong with this picture? The company that, not only invented the digital camera but also had a leading market share in digital photography, bungled the technology and is now seeking bankruptcy protection.
02.4.12 | Innovation, Management, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
A group of innovation experts discusses whether efficiency in organizations can stifle innovation.
02.2.12 | Innovation, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
Although it’s an excuse to use a goofy puppet-movie scene, this article is a good reminder that entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on the basics
01.21.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Management | John P. Muldoon
Bill Liao is a techie entreneur who made his first million by changing his language. And not PHP, Javascript or some other computer language. He did it by changing plain old English (or maybe plain old Mandarin, because he’s bilingual). Liao (@liaonet), successful entrepreneur, co-founder of Xing, author of Stone Soup, Special Diplomatic envoy for [...]
01.17.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
