dr kathryn cormican

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e-mail:    kathryn.cormicannuigalway.ie

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Research Interests

Co-innovation models for new product development

Enterprise systems integration

Product innovation management

Teaching

Project Management (IE446) | Management Systems (IE581)

Project Planning & Organisation (IE225)

Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship (IE451)

Product Design & Development (IE419)

Research Reports (IE578)

Academic Leadership

Director Masters of Applied Science. (Enterprise Systems) Please click here for more information!                                      Academic Director Masters of Technology Management. Please click here for more information!                                          

Selected Publications 

Journal Papers

Coleman, M., Hamouda, A. and Cormican, K. (2010) The Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship (ACE) initiative: Creating entrepreneurial graduates for Ireland. Forthcoming in Industry & Higher Education

Cormican, K. and O’Connor, M. (2009) Technology Transfer for Product Life Cycle Extension: A Model for Successful Implementation. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 6, 3, 105-114.

Cormican, K. and Dooley, L. (2007) Knowledge sharing in a collaborative networked environment, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 16, 2, 105-115.

Cormican, K. and Cunningham, M. (2007) Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organisation. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 18, 4, 352-366.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2007) A groupware system for virtual product innovation management. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing, 17, 6, pp 499 – 510.

Fennelly, D. and Cormican, K. (2006) Value chain migration from production to product centered operations: An analysis of the Irish medical device industry International Journal of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TECHNOVATION) 26, 1, pp 86-94.

Precup, L., O’Sullivan, D., Cormican, K. and Dooley, L. (2006) Virtual team environment for collaborative research projects. International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 3. 1, pp 77-93.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2004) Groupware architecture for R&D managers. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2, 4, pp. 367-386. (Editor Harvard Prof. Max von Zedtwitz)

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2004) Auditing best practice for effective for product innovation management. International Journal of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TECHNOVATION), 24, 10, pp 819-829.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2003) A collaborative knowledge management tool for product innovation management . International Journal of Technology Management, 26, 1, pp 53-67.

Cormican. K and O’Sullivan, D. (2003) A scorecard for supporting enterprise knowledge management. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 2, 3, pp 191-201.

Ming, Y., O’Sullivan, D., Cormican, K. and Dooley, L. (2003) Enterprise systems development model. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 5, 1-2, pp 177-195.

Flynn, M. Dooley, L., O’Sullivan, D. and Cormican, K. (2003) Idea management for organisational Innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management vol. 7, no. 4, pp 417-442.

Dooley L., Cormican, K., Wreath, S., and O’Sullivan D (2000) Supporting systems innovation, International Journal of Innovation Management, 4, 3, pp 277-297.

Book Chapters

Cormican, K. (Forthcoming 2010) Collaborative Networks: Challenges for SMEs in E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs Edited by Cruz-Cunha, M.M and Varajao, J.E., IGI Global Inc.

Gill, S. K., Cormican, K., (Forthcoming 2010), Enabling Technologies in an Ambient Intelligent (AmI) System, In Kollmann, T., Kuckertz, A., Stöckmann, C. (eds.). E-Entrepreneurship and ICT Ventures: Strategy, Organization and Technology. Idea Group

Gill, S.K., Cormican, K., (2008) Ambient intelligence (AmI) systems development, Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edited by Zhao, F., Idea Group Inc.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers                                                      

Coleman, M., McMahon, C. and Cormican, K. (2009) The adoption of enabling technology to enhance research commercialisation and technology transfer. Proceedings of eChallenges 21^st -23^rd October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

Van Leeuwen, M., Muñoz Duran, T. and Cormican, K. (2009) A happy threesome: Innovation, Creativity and Business Support. Proceedings of eChallenges 21^st -23^rd October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

Coleman, M., Hamouda, A. and Cormican, K. (2009) The Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship (ACE) initiative: Creating entrepreneurial graduates for Ireland. Proceedings of 32^nd Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference, 3^rd-6^th November 2009, Liverpool, England.

Coleman, M. and Cormican, K. (2009) Shaping the new generation of Irish Entrepreneurs: Challenges and barriers. Proceedings of Irish Academy of Management conference 3^rd-4^th September 2009, Galway, Ireland.

Gill, S. and Cormican, K. (2008), Innovation in the 21^st century SME manufacturing environment. Proceedings of 25^th International Manufacturing Conference, 3^rd -5^th September, Dublin, Ireland.

Gill, S. and Cormican, K. (2008), Implementation of an AmI system in a Manufacturing SME, Proceedings of eChallenges, 22^nd - 24^th October 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.

Van Leeuwen, M., Muñoz Duran, T. and Cormican, K. (2008) SME collaboration: Trick or Treat? Proceedings of eChallenges, 22nd - 24th October 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.

Cormican, K. and Van Leeuwen, M. (2007) Knowledge sharing in manufacturing SMEs. Proceedings of eChallenges October, 24^th -26^th October, The Hague, Netherlands.

Van Leeuwen, Gallego, M. and Cormican, K. (2007) ICT as an Opportunity for Regional Development: the Extremadura Case. Proceedings of eChallenges October, 24^th -26^th October, The Hague, Netherlands.

Cormican, K. and O Connor, M. (2007) Technology transfer model. Proceedings of the 8^th European Conference for Knowledge Management, 6^th -7^th September, Barcelona, Spain.

Masterson, F. and Cormican, K. (2007) Development of a structured on-the-job training model. Proceedings of the 8^th European Conference for Knowledge Management, 6^th -7^th September, Barcelona, Spain.

Dobbs, J. and Cormican, K. (2007) A design for environment (DFE) product analysis. Proceedings of the 4^th International Product Life Cycle Management Conference, 11^th -13^th July, Milan, Italy

Cormican, K. and Van Leeuwen, M. (2006) Towards effective knowledge management: An analysis of European manufacturing SMEs. Proceedings of eChallenges, 25^th -27^th October, Barcelona, Spain.

Van Leeuwen, M. Cormican, K. and Munoz Duran, T. (2006) Measuring and benchmarking digital literacy strategies and efforts: the BENTLI project. Proceedings of eChallenges 25^th -27^th  October, Barcelona, Spain.

Van Leewen, M. and Cormican, K. (2005) Barriers to open source software in SMEs: the lack of knowledge and skills. Proceedings of eChallenges 2005, 19^th -21^st October, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Cormican, K. and Mulligan, D. (2006) A customer centric process innovation toolkit for SMEs Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, 26^th-28^th June, Milan, Italy.

Gill, S.K. and Cormican, K. (2006) Understanding ambient intelligence: Typologies for systems development. Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, 26^th-28^th June, Milan, Italy.

Cormican, K. (2005) Managing enterprise networks: Support structures for SMEs. Proceedings of the 9^th International Workshop on Teamworking, 8^th-9^th September, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

Cormican, K. (2005) Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organization. Proceedings of the 10^th International Symposium on Logistics: Innovations in global Supply Chain Networks, 3^rd-5^th July, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

Cunningham, M. and Cormican, K. (2005) The development of a supplier performance evaluation tool. Proceedings of the 35^th Conference of Computers and Industrial Engineering, 19^th-22^nd June, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

Cormican, K. (2004) Key challenges for inter and intra enterprise knowledge transfer.  Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Metiers (CNAM) 30^th September – 1^st October, Paris, France.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2004) A groupware system for product innovation management.  Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference in Human and Organisational Issues in the Digital Enterprise (HAAMAHA, 2004), 25^th-27^th August, Galway, Ireland.

Van Leeuwen, M. and Cormican, K. (2004) Collaboration and enterprise networks: What about SMEs? Proceedings of eChallenges 2004, 27^th -29^th October, Vienna, Austria.

Hennelly, F. and Cormican, K. (2004) Creativity toolkit for R&D managers. Proceedings of the 10^thInternational Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, 14^th-16^th June, Seville, Spain.

Lettice, F., Pawar, K., Riedel, J., Cormican, K., Wognum, N. and Weber, F. (2004) A review of the last ten years of research presented at the annual International Concurrent Enterprising (ICE) conference. Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, 14^th-16^th June, Seville, Spain.

Wang, Q., Shang, Y., Li, Q. and Cormican, K. (2003) Enterprise modelling: From a collaborative point of view. Published in the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, 24^th–30^thAugust, Chengdu, China.

Mulligan, D., Cormican, K and O’Sullivan, D. (2003) Requirements of SME’s for effective innovation management, Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Production Management, 26^th-28^th May, Porto, Portugal.

Enright, S. and Cormican, K (2003) An assessment of new product development in the Irish pharmaceutical industry, Published in Proceedings of the 10^th  International Product Development Management Conference, June 10^th-11^th, Brussels, Belgium.

Cormican, K. (2002) Developing a scorecard for enterprise knowledge management. Published in proceedings of 8^th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, 17^th – 19^th June, Rome, Italy.

Cormican, K. and Shang Y. (2002) Enterprise modelling for the customer focused company. Published in proceedings of 1^st International Conference for Information Management Systems, 27^th-31^st May, Xi’an, China.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2000) Developing a self assessment audit to support product innovation management. Proceedings of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Logistics and Production Management Conference, June 28^th–30^th, Tromso, Norway.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2000) A collaborative knowledge management tool for product innovation. Proceedings of the managing innovative manufacturing 2000 Conference, July 17^th-19^th, Birmingham, UK.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2000) Enterprise knowledge management. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Irish Manufacturing Committee, August 23^rd – 25^th, Galway, Ireland.

Browne, J., Cormican, K., Dooley L., Yu, M., O’Sullivan, D. (2000) Innovation management for product and process development. Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Technology in Business, August, Beijing, China.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2000) Product innovation management: Towards a constructive guide. Proceedings of Life Cycle Approaches to Production Systems: Management, Control, Supervision, September 18^th- 20^th, Bordeaux, France.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (2000) A web enabled solution for managing distributed product innovation. Proceedings of the European eBusiness & eWork Conference 2000, 18^th– 20^th October, Madrid, Spain.

Cormican, K., Dooley, L., O’Sullivan, D., Wreath, S. and Yu, M. (1999) Systems innovation management: Supporting innovation in a manufacturing environment. Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Production Research, August 9^th-12^th, Limerick, Ireland.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (1999) Systems innovation tools. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, September 6^th-10^th, Berlin, Germany.

Dooley L., Cormican, K., O’Sullivan D., Wreath S., Yu M. (1999) Systems innovation. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, 22^nd-24^th September, Leuven, Belgium.

Cormican, K. and O’Sullivan, D. (1999) Product manager: A decision support tool for design engineers.  Proceedings of the European Network of Excellence on Advanced Methodologies and Tools for Manufacturing Systems International Scientific-Technical Workshop: Problems for Technology Transfer, September 30^th -October 1^st, Ufa, Russia.

O’Sullivan D., Dooley L., Cormican, K., Yu, M., and Wreath S. (1998) Systems innovation management. Proceedings of PDK ’98, October, Berlin, Germany.

Cormican, K., Richardson, I. and Murphy, E., (1996). Implementing quality: Dealing with the culture barriers. Third Level Quality Network. May, Dublin, Ireland.

Technical Papers

Cormican, K. and O'Sullivan, D. (2001) Enterprise knowledge management.  Technical Paper published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn Michigan, USA.

Cormican, K.  (2003) Setting goals for the EU economy. The Engineers Journal vol. 56 no. 2 pp 16-18.

Distance Learning Textbooks

Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship (2008) Diploma in Technology Commercialisation, Atlantic University Alliance.

Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship (2008) Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Science and Technology Studies, Atlantic University Alliance.

Project Management (2007) Master of Science (M.Sc.) Biomedical Science, NUI Galway.

Project Planning, Management & Evaluation (2006) B.A. in Education & Training, Open Learning Centre, NUI Galway.

Product & Process Development (1998) M.Sc in Operations Management, National Distance Education Centre (NDEC) Dublin City University, co-authored with O’Sullivan, D., O’Callahan, R., Dunbar, E., McDonagh, D. and Flynn, M.

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