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
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
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
Lean startup guru Eric Ries says if you are not embarrassed by your version 1 then you have spent too much time on it. But what is the threshold for spending extra time on it when it screams out at you in all its full awfulness?
01.15.12 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
It is probably an innovative way to price health clubs, but will it work?
01.7.12 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
“I don’t believe in age,” James Whelton, entrepreneur and Coder Dojo co-founder said. Encouraging words to people like me: aspiring entrepreneurs more than twice his age. Then Whelton, 19, and founder of his own company Disruptive Developments (@disruptivedev), goes and ruins it all by saying he was talking about kids even younger than himself. The [...]
11.23.11 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Companies need to get back to basics of branding, marketing guru Stephen Brown says.
08.10.11 | Fun stuff, Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Starting a business is so tricky that most are bound to fail. But failure teaches important lessons and can be managed, according to Colm Lyon (@colmlyon), CEO and founder of Realex Payments. Speaking at the second annual Dotconf (@dotconf) today, Lyon recounted his experiences setting up Realex (@realexpayments) around 11 years ago and gave [...]
06.2.11 | Entrepreneurship, Management, Organisation, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Hopefully that headline grabbed your attention. It might even be more effective on Twitter. It contains many of the keywords designed to hook you on magazine covers, according to Norah Casey, owner and CEO of Harmonia, Ireland’s largest publisher. Casey is also one of the potential investors on Ireland’s version of The Dragons’ Den TV [...]
05.9.11 | Entrepreneurship, Management, Media, Organisation, Social Media, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
A Disruptive Innovation is one that helps create a new market. The term was coined by Clayton M. Christensen in 1995. Disruptive innovations are generally ignored by the mass market at first. They are often viewed with suspicion by incumbent operators even though they may have themselves come up with the innovation. The case of [...]
02.12.11 | Innovation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
