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UCD Business is organising a 2-day conference on Ethics and Responsible Leadership in the Digital Society to be held on the 11th and 12th of February 2016. The conference will be held under the auspices of  CEMS and is primarily for the benefit of our 50 CEMS students. These students are required to take a set of seminars on the topic of Responsible Global Leadership, and this year these seminars will take the form of a 2-day conference structured around keynote presentations, group breakouts and plenary discussion sessions. The conference will be held in MH201 in the Blackrock campus. We are also opening the conference to about 40 interested and engaged students from a number of our MSc programmes. Our vision is to encourage these students to critically reflect and engage with the pressing issues of Ethics and Responsible Leadership in a Digital world and also to spark a wider discussion on this area in our school. We should also have space available for up to 10 faculty at...

Prof. Seán D. Kelly will be giving a public lecture on the philosophy of creativity (entitled 'Technê, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault') at 5pm on Tuesday 2 February in the UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business, Belfield.  The abstract for the talk is appended below and a copy of the paper is attached. All are very welcome and please feel free to circulate this notice further.  For those wishing to attend, please register for the event here so that we might have a good indication of numbers. Register at EventBrite Technê, Technology, and Truth from Aristotle to Foucault'   Sean D. Kelly : Harvard University Technology and human existence stand in a deep and revealing relation with one another. It is not just that human beings are tool-using creatures, or that human history is basically co-extensive with the history of technological innovation.  Rather, and more fundamentally, technology is a central means by which human beings establish the truth o...

Case Analysis Exercises - Homework ( mini cases ) Adopt the following protocol for problem based case learning outputs and debriefing... Each student to provide 1 page (only), at beginning of class, consisting of: A half page on the obvious problem A half page on a novel issue, your own original learning addressing a relevant aspect Writing in your own words and citing your own research. Lecturer will proofread while students prepare an in-class group synthesis & whiteboard presentation.

This page...  Offers pointers to some essential and interesting services that business owners, product managers and producers of digital goods should know about; some old some new (this list will grow and grow). For example: Conversational software for persistent collaboration covers a few different application categories. The area is fast evolving with lots of feature/functionality replication washing across all the various offerings... Team communication tools:  any kind of open Wiki, Slack, Google+Hangouts, Skype, etc. Social networking tools:  FB, SnapChat, WhatsApp, Yammer, LinkedIn, etc. Collaborative software:  any kind of Wiki, plus a whole range of other products mixing database, web and markup (like wiki, structured text, restructured text, rich text, native Word, html, etc), with features like fine grained (or not) user/account/rights, workflow, content management, discussion, blogging, file systems, change tracking, versioning, tagging, bookmarking, etc. ...

The student groups have to identify their own topics. Not an easy task! I recommend you read through the case and research papers in the 'READINGS' folder and widen your investigation to other outsourcing research articles to start getting ideas and be inspired. Consider addressing a couple of prerequisites first. 1. Access. Who can give me access to an organisation or many organisations? 2. Data. What am I going to ask or discover, what kind of data do I think I can gather? Then brainstorm, capture, structure, write. Question: Why is there no template? I would like this to be taken as an opportunity for you to create something of real value, your own research project, an exercise that you can define and conduct independently. In the first instance you should attempt to create your own research output, built with your own creative energy and enthusiasm, something that is yours, that is substantial and original. However, to say that there is no template is incorrect. Research ne...

Read the readings. Go to the library and read the books. The term paper is your project, you do the field research, you analyse, interpret, write up and create! Target your writing towards ECIS, one of the main IS conferences. Word or LaTeX templates can be downloaded from https://goo.gl/TcN31Z The following high quality, general conferences may be good sources for searching for similar research. IFIP Working Group Conferences (esp. 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.4)  Academy of Management Conference  ICIS  EGOS other local conferences like the Irish Academy of Management annual conference, UKAIS etc. The following journals are potentially good quality sources for relevant related research. Register with a relevant journal to receive notifications of new publications; for example:  Palgrave e-alerts  ( European Journal of Information Systems ). MIS Quarterly  Information Systems Research  Communications of The ACM  Information & Organization  European J...

Organised by Majella Murphy UCD College of Business Entrepreneur-in-Residence Monday, 1st February: 19.00-20.30 in Lawrence Crowley Boardroom Hear about start-up early stage and growth strategies with Justin Keating, co-founder and CEO Version 1 ( www.version1.com ). Version1 is one of the fastest growing IT services companies in Western Europe with over 700 employees, 8 International offices and €75m in annual revenue. To register for this event: http://1drv.ms/1W8B4SN Tuesday, 2nd February: 18.00-19.00 in MH102 Find out about a number of Student Entrepreneurship Competitions, including: EI Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Enactus Social Entrepreneurship Competition, Accenture Leaders of Tomorrow programme and UCD Startup Stars competition. To register for this event: http://02022016.eventbrite.ie Tuesday, 9th February: 18.30 in Main Hall Participate in an enaging and fiery debate on the topic "Do Irish governement policies and supports help or hinter entrepreneurs?...

Message from Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, College Principal and Dean of Business, UCD. "We are delighted to welcome Dr Penelope Muzanenhamo as the new Proudly Made in Africa Fellow in Business and Development, based at the UCD Quinn and Smurfit Schools." Penelope has studied the contribution of Brand Africa to Sustainable Development from a diasporan perspective. She holds a PhD from Warwick Business School (WBS) and two Masters degrees (in Strategic Management and in Business Administration) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Dr Penelope Muzanenhamo Room Q108, UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business, University College Dublin. W: www.proudlymadeinafrica.org On 10/Feb/2016 Penelope delivered a seminar titled "Why Africa" She described the potential for shifting value added activities to different sites as a means of better distributing the resources of a value chain; to shift benefits towards primary producers. The supply chain / value chain perspective offe...

This site covers material for dealing with the following challenges... How should one manage sourcing relationships? (and how does this vary according to the mode?) Relationship development - Important stages of sourcing relationships. Formulating sourcing contracts and service level agreements. Relationship governance structures and practices. Risk management. Facilitating effective communication and learning in context of cultural diversity and distributed work. The enabling role of ICT across organisational boundaries. Identifying and addressing emerging relationship problems. What are the emergent trends in sourcing relationships that are likely to be important in the future?

A potential general theme is offered as a starting point for your Term-Paper. Consideration of the ethics of digital sourcing highlights the issues of leadership, the person, connections, responsibility and responsible sourcing for technology services and business processes. Topics of interest include: Issues of global, geographical separation, and teams Hybrid organisations Cultural clash and compatibility New trends, impact of emerging forms of organisation and technology Impact sourcing for social change Waste and value, sustainability Social responsibility Research papers in this field could address areas such as: Raising awareness of issues surrounding the global sourcing of IT and Business Process capability. Study the role of NGOs in Ireland and the challenges they face in developing countries in raising the level of key human development indicators. Develop new ideas broadly aligned with the theme of sustainable responsible sourcing. Literature reviews. Desk research analysing ...

Abstracts of 1500 words are due by February 1st. If accepted, full papers (6,000-8,000 words) will be due by June 30th. Submission details and further information about the conference can be found on the conference website. http://www.iamireland.ie/annual-conference/2016-annual-conference-ucd.html The 2016 Irish Academy of Management Conference is being hosted by the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Dublin, from Aug 31st to Sept 2nd, 2016. The conference theme is ‘Ireland 2016: Re-imagining business and the role of ethics’. 2016 is an historic year for Ireland as we commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising and Proclamation. The official commemorations invite us to remember our past and imagine a better future. As part of these commemorations, the 2016 IAM Conference will examine ethics in business - past, present and future. We invite papers and roundtable symposiums that explore the concept of ethics in its broadest sense and across multiple levels – individual, organisat...

Suhas Pathak, Co-Founder Unnat-e SysTech Pvt Ltd., based in Pune, India. He has 20+ years of experience in the software industry including working in USA, Australia, UK, Belgium and Ireland.  Strong expertise in offshore product development, mentoring and project management areas.  Has learnt, adopted and respected the agile methodologies in software development and also provides training on Agile implementation to software companies. Experience with various business models working with customers for product and services development success. Connected with a strong pool of experienced technology experts in various technologies in India. Works with customers in Europe and the USA, successfully implementing a virtual remote sourcing model with production teams distributed between the USA, India and China. The model is based on close-coupled teams with which customers can enjoy the outsourcing advantages with in-sourcing benefits. Suhas is happy to explore any collaboration for o...