savoy091

Towards Acquisition - The Logentries Journey 18.00, Thursday 25th February Lawrence Crowley Boardroom A rare opportunity to listen to Trevor Parsons recount his story of the journey from a computer science PhD student at UCD to co-founder and CEO of Logentries which he sold to Rapid7 last year for €68m - one of the biggest spinouts ever from UCD. http://www.independent.ie/ business/irish/parsing-trevor- how-a-boy-from-blanch- hockeyed-the-competition- 34221575.html http://www.rte.ie/news/ business/2015/1014/734675- logentries-deal/ http://www.irishtimes.com/ business/technology/ucd-spin- out-firm-logentries-acquired- by-rapid7-for-68m-1.2391425 Register here: http://25022016.eventbrite.ie UCD Startup Stars Preparation Workshop 09.30-12.30, Monday 29th February A lean canvas-focused workshop to help prepare students who are entering the UCD Startup Stars competition Register here: http://startupstars29022016.eventbrite.ie Startup Grind Dublin  18.30, Monday 29th February Google Irel...

UCD IT Services are delighted to announce that we will be hosting an IT Fair Discover IT: Behind the Scenes on Tuesday 8th March, in O’Reilly Hall, Belfield, from 11am to 3pm. http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/itfair/ There will be over 30 stands showcasing our services, demonstrations and displays. Along with promoting the services we provide such as IT Security, Research IT and Web Services, we will also be joined by a number of our external partners including Dell, Amazon, IBM and others plus our colleagues in UCD Registry and the Library. Prizes! There will be plenty of prizes to be won such as a Dell laptop, Apple iPad, a Kindle Fire and many more, plus pick up a goody bag on your way out! There will also be an opportunity to get a professional photo taken and see how IT security savvy you are by taking a quick Phishing quiz. Refreshments will be provided for attendees. The IT Fair takes place from 11am to 3pm, Tuesday 8th March in O’Reilly Hall. All staff and students are invited. We ...

The call for ICIS 2016 has been announced, key dates and the call for papers is online (see http://icis2016.aisnet.org/ ). See social updates at  #icis2016 on Twitter This year's conference theme is “Digital Innovation at the Crossroads.” Research tracks include: Conference Theme Track: Digital Innovation at the Crossroads Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, Blockchain and the Sharing Economy Data Science and Business Analytics E-Business and E-Government Economics and Value of IS General IS Topics Human Behavior in IS Human-Computer Interaction IS Curriculum and Education IS Design and Business Process Management IS in Healthcare IS in Organizations and Society IS Security and Privacy IS Strategy, Governance, and Sourcing IT Implementation, Adoption, and Use Managing IS Projects and IS Development Methodological and Philosophical Foundations of IS Panels Practice-oriented Research Social Media and Digital Collaboration Sustainability and Societal Impacts of IS Completed research papers a...

Tom runs a product concept and design company that handles high-level web and marketing activities while outsourcing development. Although his business is located in the digital campus beside Heuston Station he claims there are just too few (affordable) software engineers in the Irish market for a small firm like his to build up its own development capability, especially as much of the work can be sourced online. He contracts software implementation and delivery to a small number of trusted outside firms that he has worked with over the years. Tom handles client facing interaction, gathering the requirements, and sourcing delivery from his contacts. He thinks of the software code merely one facet of the business, as something that just 'gets the job done'; "yes code is intellectual property but you can't be precious about code. For me it's the relationship with my client, building up a joint understanding of how we want a 'thing' to work. To be honest I co...

After reading the proposal and talking about it we should be able to answer the following questions. Do we know what you propose investigating? (a one sentence statement, often the title) Motivation, why is it interesting? (might be something puzzling at work or a question you have) What sources of data do you think will you use? (speculation is ok) What kind of data do you expect to gather and how will the data be gathered? (speculation is ok) In what theory, knowledge area, discipline do you start from? (provide some references to theory) Basic structure as follows: TITLE (a couple of words, a phrase or a short sentence) ABSTRACT (- around 300 words - a very short 'story' from which answers to the questions above can be inferred ) REFERENCES (3 TO 8) Justify your idea using at least three academic references (not magazine articles, web posts or news items). Justify the most important statements using citation (see note above). Do not include spurious references in the bibliog...

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2016 Irish Academy of Management Conference is February 29th. 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. 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, organisational, sectoral, national and international – and enhance our understanding of building a sustainable and ethical economy and society. We welcome contributions from within business and management schools, b...

Simon Wardley links the value chain mapping idea and extends it with the technology adoption lifecycle product maturity model. His opinion piece on Computer Weekly includes a really nice illustration of how this can be applied to a 'sourcing' analysis ( link ). An illustration of Wardley's strategic mapping applied for sourcing analysis ( link )

This course employs case driven problem based learning PBL. Each case description presents a brief 1 or 2 page document describing 'problems' that we might reasonably expect to encounter in the workplace. Small groups of students (4) use cases to structure self-directed learning goals. The cases become progressively more complex and/or subtle as students become more adept at the approach to learning and engage more deeply with the problems presented as the depth and sophistication of their own knowledge expands. Groups of 3 or 4 people work on the case in 2 stages; during the second half of the class in the first week and the first half of the class in the following week after which each group presents a brief summary. In between I provide a 45" traditional presentation followed by discussion of suggested readings. The whole class studies one case a week. Group research process guide: individuals read the case, the group then analyses and interpret according to own existin...

An interview with Suhas Pathak Co-Founder and Director at Unnat-e SysTech Pvt Ltd. Talking points on the topic of ITO, sourcing and India.: Comment on the visibility of working from a distance and delivering services to remote customers. What are the challenges to developing and maintaining business relationships? How does local and distant national culture affect things (if at all) Is physical distance really a problem? How do you acquire customers? Can anyone start up an outsourcing business? Do local firms support each other?  Does Government have a role to play? How do you handle staff turnover? Who or what do you think of as 'the competition'? Does a country as a whole benefit from the outsourcing industry?  What does the future hold?

Tuesday 9th February, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Blackrock. Invitation to an industry panel debating the topic "Do Irish government policies and supports help or hinter entrepreneurs?" Panel of Niamh Bushnell (Dublin Commissioner for Start-ups), Chris Horn (co-founder and former CEO Iona Technologies, now Venture Partner at Atlantic Bridge Ventures) and Brendan Cremen (UCD Director of Enterprise and Commercialisation). ( link to register ).

As part of the newly changed programme title, MSc Digital Innovation, we will use the @ucddi Twitter account for items of public interest and mindshare for the student body. Do please @ucddi for items on your own Twitter feed you think would be of interest to Digital Innovation.

Exercise: 15" Read the case (again): 5" In groups assess the suitability of one of the following areas for a pharmaceutical firm's sourcing strategy... Email ERP MRP HR LIMS Plant control systems Public/market/marketing content management websites Internal documentation and content management intranets Storage Collaboration technology Logistics (3PL) Regulatory compliance Applying one or more of the instruments from chapter 2 to this example. Debrief: 15" Report to the class… Service categories: General Business / Unit or Site Specific (HR, Finance etc) / Industry Specific Strategy recommendation? Cloud? / In-House? / On-Shore? / Off-Shore? / 3rd Party? /