Enterprise agility

Enterprise Agility

Researchers in the Enterprise Agility cluster are focusing on improving an organization’s ability to drive change, to sense and respond readily to change, and to learn from that change in today’s business environment of unprecedented turbulence. Research in this cluster focuses on agile and lean methods of software development and their ability to proactively harness change. This cluster includes 20 staff, 5 postdoctoral researchers and 15 existing doctoral students, across the School of Business & Economics (i.e., Accountancy & Finance, Business Information Systems, Management and Marketing), the School of Law, the School of Psychology, CROLS, and DERI.

The group has attracted over €4m in direct funding and has been involved in national and European project consortia attracting over €30m. Sources of direct funding include the EU Commission, Science Foundation Ireland, the Fulbright Commission, Enterprise Ireland, and IRCSET. The funding has been used to establish strong industry links, establishing the Agile Forum with ITAG, a monthly research and industry seminar series for showcasing NUI Galway research, which now attracts up to 40 companies per event.

The group has secured €2.5m in industry contribution to NUI Galway to sustain this activity until 2015. Contributors include international market and technology leaders in their field, such as Information Mosaic (Dublin), Intel (Leixlip), Ericsson (Athlone), Cisco (Galway), Lumension Security (Galway), APC Schneider (Galway) and QAD (Shannon), as well as leading consultants in agile and lean management, namely Almir (Limerick) and Lean Business Systems (Limerick).

Kieran has now created a formal link between this cluster and the University of Limerick, and incorporating the group into the Lero research centre, adding NUI Galway to the existing consortium of UCD, UL, Trinity and DCU.

You can access the list of the key projects within this cluster, the academic and research staff working within the cluster (see also list below), and their list of publications.You can also access a list of selected recent publications. You can access on-line copies of these publications on ARAN, the NUI Galway Institutional Repository.

Project Leader:

• Dr. Kieran Conboy, NUI Galway

Participants:

• Dr Tom Acton, NUI Galway
• Dr. Meghann Drury, NUI Galway
• Professor Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick
• Orla McHugh, NUI Galway
• Lorraine Morgan, NUI Galway
• Colm O'hEocha, NUI Galway
• Xiao Wang, University of Limerick
• Eoin Whelan, University of Limerick

Selected Recent Publications:

Please CLICK HERE for details of selected recent publications.

Key Projects:

Title: AGILE & LEAN NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE
Dates: 2010 - 2015
Funding Secured: €2.5m industry contribution confirmed to NUI Galway

Title: DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Dates: 2008 – 2011
Principal Investigators: Dr Kieran Conboy, Professor Willie Golden and Dr. Tom Acton
Funding Secured: €400,000

Title: GLOBAL AGILE INNOVATION (GAIA)
Dates: 2007 – 2010
Principal Investigator: Dr Kieran Conboy
Funding Secured: €550,000

Title: MANAGING AGILE IS DEVELOPMENT
Dates: 2007 – 2010
Principal Investigators: Dr Kieran Conboy (NUI Galway) and Prof. Brian Fitzgerald (UL)
Funding Secured: €250,000

Title: FLEXI (EU Commission ITEA 2 Funding)
Dates: 2007 - 2009
Principal Investigator of Irish component: Dr Kieran Conboy
Funding Secured: €100,000 to NUI Galway (Part of €30m EU consortium)

Title: SENIOR FULBRIGHT RECIPIENT
Date: 2009
Recipient: Dr Kieran Conboy

Please CLICK HERE for more information on each of these projects.

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