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In today’s business environment it’s often instinctive to hold your cards close to your chest, keeping problems and challenges to yourself, for fear of being perceived as lacking. But realistically, we all have challenges...
Creativity / Innovation / Strategy
4 Jul, 2014
In today’s business environment it’s often instinctive to hold your cards close to your chest, keeping problems and challenges to yourself, for fear of being perceived as lacking. But realistically, we all have challenges...
Business / Innovation / Strategy
12 May, 2014
This is one of my favourite TED talks, recorded in 2009. Simon Sinek, Start with Why. “People don’t buy What you do, they buy Why you do it” The theme is to help you...
14 Apr, 2014
Fail Better, Fail Quicker, Fail Incrementally. That is the theme of a recent event I attended, Flounders in the Science Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin Ireland on 9th April 2014. This was part of...
28 Feb, 2013
My thoughts today for this blog, is of the resistance to change, fear of collaborating together in case we loose out by an enterprise. I experienced first hand recently that fear of collaborating with...
12 Oct, 2012
This week, I finally got time to set aside to re-evaluating our USP, that 30 second (or even 10 second) pitch that we all get with those we interact with, that time that can...
A Business Model Innovation Overview Traditional business strategies exist for you’re the business owner to maintain margin. Costs are becoming harder to contain, your products are now becoming less unique or being differentiated from...
26 Jun, 2012
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt. In this film, Brad Pitt grows younger as he ages. If we could use some imagination and creativity in this for all our benefits, think of...
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I cannot praise Brian enough, he is a brilliant technical resource with excellent customer handling skills and a real pleasure to work with.
Mark Duffy, Service Delivery Manager, Ireland, Esp.co.uk
2012/11/01
Brian Andrews & Grainne Cleare, The Business Planners
The Ballymun Business Academy (BBA) provides training to entrepreneurs to enable them to stress test their strategic vision and reassess the company’s strategic direction. Brian and Grainne were contracted by the Ballymun Whitehall Area Partnership in November 2012 to deliver a training module within BBA. In many entrepreneurship courses the focus is predominately on administering tools to aid entrepreneurs, however, Brian and Grianne’s … Read more
Both Brian and Grainne have been working with eight Famers Markets in County Meath since January 2012, and have provided a focused analysis of the “state of the art” in terms of the markets current situation, potential for development and clear pathways for investment both in terms of capital and skills enhancement requirements.
As dedicated partitioners in the field.. they bring first hand knowledge and a pragmatic approach to this project taliered to their clients needs. It is apparent that th… Read more
Brian joined us at Snap as part of his DCU Business Innovation Program. Our project at Snap was to introduce 6 new commercial products to Snap, over 6 months. Brian acted as Project Manager for the exercise. Working with Group Office, he completed the commercial negotiations and planned the rollout of the new products. A clear, precise and practically implementable method for rolloing out the products was developed by Brian and Grainne from DCU, with Snap’s group office team. The methodology inc… Read more
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