How Covid-19 has evolved the role of the manager
Managing teams has never been easy but with the global move to remote and distributed working, it just got more complex. Some employees are returning to the workplace, but many are choosing to stay fully remote or do a hybrid of both. For managers, this has presented more questions than answers. When we moved from…
Train-To-Retain
It’s often researched and articulated why people leave organisations, but we don’t talk enough about why people stay. With 2021 being called the year of the great resignation and countries seeing a tidal wave of people rethinking their employment experience, the focus is now moving to employee retention. Unfortunately, when people leave organisations in high…
Maintaining your Cybersecurity while Working from Home
Guest Blog by: Kevin O’Regan , Founder and Director of Radius Technologies Cork When employees began working from home, businesses were suddenly being operated from bedrooms, kitchen tables and home offices. This in itself brought significant challenges as employees adapted to this new way of work. One such challenge is the discrepancy in security provisions in a…
GDPR Brexit Advice
Guest Blog by: Mike McGrath, Managing Director at Arvo Data Protection was not a large consideration for most UK citizens and businesses on the run up to the 2016 Brexit referendum, but their decision to leave the European Union, is causing much panic now for businesses transferring data to and from the UK. With 11% of global…
Digitalisation of BioPharma Manufacturing
Guest Blog by: Siobhan Fleming, Collaboration Manager at Siemens Digital Industries The extraordinary events of 2020 have made everyone more aware of the complex process involved in identifying, developing and manufacturing vaccines and medicines, and the real race against time that is involved. The world is looking to the biopharma industry for solutions, through testing, repurposed and novel…
Humanity in the Future of Work
Guest Blog by: Pete Rawlinson, Chief Marketing Officer, Workvivo Prior to the recent pandemic, there was a gradual move to a more distributed workforce in industries where this was possible. There was also an increasing proportion of the workforce demanding optionality in where and how they work, even selecting their employer based on this criterion. Covid…
it@cork receives ESCA BRONZE Label “Striving for Cluster Excellence”
it@cork recognised with prestigious European quality standard and receives ESCA BRONZE Label “Striving for Cluster Excellence” it@cork are thrilled to announce that the organisation has been awarded with the prestigious European industrial cluster quality standard “BRONZE Label – Striving for Cluster Excellence” by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA). The accreditation is supported by DG Enterprise and…
Cybersecurity jobs in Ireland to double within 10 years
Congratulations to it@cork board member Donna O’Shea who recently has been appointed chair of cybersecurity in Cork Institute of Technology and the newly formed Munster Technological University (MTU). In her recent interview with the Irish Examiner Donna stated that Cybersecurity jobs in Ireland are to double within 10 years from its current 6,000 jobs total to 12,000 which is extremely positive news…
Onboarding New Customers in “The New Normal”
Guest Blog by: Shane O’Neill, Principal Solutions Architect, Horizon8 As the corporate world embraces the new normal post-Covid 19, regulated entities are examining the challenges and opportunities that come from operating in an almost exclusively online environment. Businesses are re-evaluating their digital transformation strategies, and identifying ways to streamline revenues, improve client service, and offer greater…
Why you need an automation strategy today, don’t wait until tomorrow!
Guest blog by David O’Brien, Senior Manager, Technology Transformation at Dell Technologies. Automation and A.I. have been on everyone’s lips for the last decade but where do you need to start? Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been named by Gartner as the fastest growing enterprise software category with the market growing by 63% in 2018 alone….