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Smurfit MSc Students Finalists in Deloitte Top Tech Challenge Pushpendra, Tanvita, and Ajay UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Masters students Pushpendra Singh, Tanvita Srivastava, and Ajay Singh Rajput reached the final round of the Deloitte Ireland Top Tech Challenge 2015. ( link ) The team at the # TopTechTalent  final. Pushpendra Singh (MSc Strategic Management & Planning programme) Tanvita Srivastava (MSc iBusiness - Innovation through ICT programme) Ajay Singh Rajput (MSc iBusiness - Innovation through ICT programme)

Ethics discussion keywords Goal: To explore the meaning of ethics within and between organisations. Preparatory reading (optional):  Carr, Albert (1968). Is business bluffing ethical? Harvard Business Review, Jan.8Feb, 143, 155.  Kavanagh, Donncha (2011) 'Work and play in management studies: A Kleinian analysis'. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 11 (4), 336–356 Exercise workshop/debrief Steps: Write the following keywords on the board. This can be done in advance or as an 'icebreaker' with the class. For instance, ask the class why we have included the concept of 'GAME'. Ethics Responsibility Moral Ethos Play Regulation Rules Safe Values Winners What matters? Game Sustainable Interests Self-interests Power Barriers Welfare "it's important to talk about ethics because..." After this ask groups to discuss further and to create their own response to the opening sentence "It's important to talk about Ethics because..." Vi...

" How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate " by Bruce Brown and Scott Anthony (2011) This article by Brown & Anthony (2011) illustrates for me one of the difficulties of seeking to identify a strong link between innovation and outsourcing. All of P&G's efforts towards innovation appear to be corporate internalisations of one kind or another and not outsourcing at all. Likewise the TedTalk by Nirmalya Kumar  titled "India's invisible innovation" drills into the common criticism that the net impact of outsourcing to India has not resulted in innovation from India. A more pessimistic reading of the outsourcing literature might see it as rather devoid of product or service innovation at all. In fact it might appear, if innovation is occurring at all then it seems to take place at the inter-firm competitive level, the level of markets, organisational forms, and business models.

You only have 5 minutes to present. Think like a TedTalk presenter. Some strategies that may or may not work for you... Focus on story telling for the presentation. Perhaps focus on illustrating your key findings in some memorable and distinctive way. Perhaps try fewer slides Perhaps put some of the text into your speech rather than on the slides. Perhaps focus on your key findings; they may relate to the case data or they may relate to the method you employed, or you may wish to cover both.

The company organises its 'enterprise software' development and production teams according to a 'lean development' framework. The management team's emphasis is on the top line; new sales, big deals, big customers, (even better to get big-new-customers). They had achieved success in the past by being close to the customer, understanding the customer, achieving 'fit' with the customer. The executive team and the board of directors saw bottom-line cost control as important, however close involvement with the company's customers, bringing features inside the core product had enabled continuous renewal and evolution of the product lines. A number of consultancy projects in China were now exceeding the size of those in Europe and North America. Chinese semi-states and private corporations were investing heavily in cutting edge, large scale, IT infrastructure. Of all the developing nations China was the biggest and growing the fastest. In the end the decision t...

Speculating on the future of globalisation shifting to localisation. Shawn Donnan, FT. ( link )