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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Seminar materials and links

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Slides and pointers to material from a seminar on the assumptions of Global Sourcing (aka O/O: Outsourcing/Offshoring). For proposed princ...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Ireland's "digital natives" a major plus for conducting global business

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Liam Halpin, interviewed by Silicon Republic's John Kennedy, explains why he thinks Ireland is the perfect location for conducting globa...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Democratising innovation for vehicle design

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Public agencies are applying the principles of crowdsourcing to new tech design projects in efforts to both reduce the costs of government p...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Exercise: national factors

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Categories to consider: Skills Cost IT Infrastructure Risk Quality Local market Economy Location (geographic) Culture Political ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Exercise: Experiences on virtual teams

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Exercise: Establish the level of knowledge and experience of virtual teams and their supporting tool-technology combinations among the surv...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Do virtual teams perform better?

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In early 2013 Yahoo hit the tech headlines by changing its workplace policy and placing a ban on teleworking ( link ). On the other hand the...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Links between crowd funding and Islamic finance?

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The idea of Crowdsourcing sometimes sits uneasily with the general sourcing literature. The sourcing literature seems to focus on inter-org...