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Enterprise Agility Cluster

While there are many potential benefits to Agile and Lean software adoption in business there is no recipe to follow that will guarantee success. This project concentrates on five key areas viewed as fundamental to successful information systems development and usage.

Firstly, lean practices from the manufacturing are seen by industry as potential solution to the ’soft’ perception of agile methods. Lean practices bring a focus on metrics, quality management, root cause analysis, evidence-based process improvement. The research challenge here is adapting, implementing and validating these lean practices in a software engineering context.

Secondly, there is an inadequate rigorous evidential base to answer questions as to the effect of agile approaches on software cost, schedule, and quality. Establishing such a base is a major research undertaking and is absolutely critical in the context of establishing the latter in the context of evolving critical systems (ECS). Sound management and decision-making underpins the success of ECS projects. However, little research has focused on these issues.

The central idea behind Open Innovation is that in a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely on in-house innovation, but should also actively scout for and exploit the discoveries of others outside their own R&D structures. Shorter innovation cycles, the increased mobility of workers, the rising cost of industrial R&D, and a lack of resources have motivated a change in organisational innovation strategies towards a more open approach.

While it is widely acknowledged that cloud computing has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry, issues surrounding the adoption and business value of cloud computing have received relatively little attention. While some research and industry efforts seek to take advantage of cloud computing markets, and identify potential challenges and solutions affecting adoption, these efforts have been largely dedicated to addressing technical problems.

Cluster Leader: Dr. Kieran Conboy

Cluster Members

Acton, Tom	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Barry, Chris	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Collings, David	Academic Staff	Dublin City University
Collins, Patrick	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	School of Geography and Archaeology
Conboy, Kieran	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Coyle, Sharon	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Coyne, Michael	Teaching Assistant	School of Law
Doheny, Niamh		Huston School of Film & Digital Media
Higgins, Niamh	PhD student	School of Psychology
Hogan, Mairéad	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Hughes, Brian	Academic Staff	School of Psychology
Hughes, Martin	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
James, Jack	Academic Staff	School of Psychology
Kennedy, Rónán	Academic Staff	School of Law
Lang, Michael	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Lee, Eimear	PhD student	School of Psychology
Lohan, Garry	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
McCarthy, Alma	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Morgan, Lorraine	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O Riordan, Niamh	POST DOCTORAL	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O'Brien, Conor		J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O'Dwyer, Orla	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O'hEocha, Colm	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O'Leary, Eanna	PhD student	School of Psychology
O'Neill, Susan	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
O'Shea, Ruth	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Pal, Suchitra	Associate member
Power, Ken	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Robbins, Geraldine	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Ryan, Paul Andrew	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Scott, Murray	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Sharkey, Ultan	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Torres, Ann	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics

Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
NUI Galway
This page was last updated Friday, April 05, 2013