A recent report from Geoscience Ireland offers a guide to implementing a business cluster strategy based on its own experience. Geological Surveys are, as their name suggests, more normally engaged with projects such as mapping and monitoring, and in our own case, major initiatives such as marine mapping for INFOMAR and national programmes such as […]
A new study, conducted by Trainers’ Learning Skillnet and the Irish Institute of Training and Development, was launched earlier this week regarding innovation training in Irish companies. The study showed that 69% of organisations do not have specific innovation training and 8% did not know whether or not their company provides training.The research was shouldered […]
Council Journal looks at paradoxical dilemma of getting a digital strategy that doesn’t get bogged down in inertia and becomes another public policy chore. If there’s one thing a digital strategy can’t be, it’s incremental. The mismatch between most public service delivery models and digital futures is too great—and the environment is changing too quickly—for […]
Dave A. Barry, founder of Conexion explains how the importance of exploring the right ‘people analytics’ is crucial in the modern hunt for talent. As a HR leader, I consider myself very fortunate to have worked with both Eli Lilly (biopharmaceutical) and Trend Micro (cybersecurity) during periods of significant organisational transformation. Between 2009 and 2011, […]
The Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland (SCSI) recently published an extensive report and recommendations on halting the decline of Ireland’s small towns and rejuvenating their communities. The aim of the SCSI’s report – REJUVENATING Ireland’s small town centres – A Call to Action was to begin a dialogue and encourage the rejuvenation of the […]
On 29th May 2019, Fáilte Ireland launched its massive new capital investment programme, Platforms for Growth. The programme will run from 2019 to 2022 and is worth €150 million, making it the biggest investment programme of this kind. It will focus on improving tourism by providing grants of €2.5million and upwards to large-scale visitor attractions. […]
It has been announced that the eagerly anticipated J.D. Wetherspoon location on Camden Street will open in the summer of 2019, creating 300 new jobs. Construction on the site will begin on Tuesday, 8th of May. The spot on Camden Street, which was formerly a hostel and has a projected cost of €4 million to […]
Ireland has been named as a “standout” country, in terms of the speed of its developing digital economy, in a study conducted for the Harvard Business Review. The study is built around an index, the Digital Evolution Index (DEI), created by the Fletcher School at Tafts University, which attempts to gauge the differing speeds at […]