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The Government is banking on an innovation revolution to play a major part in extracting the country from the economic and financial black hole into which it has toppled so unceremoniously. In the last few weeks, two leading State groups, FAS and the Innovation Taskforce, have produced major reports suggesting that further shifts up the technological tree can produce major dividends in the area of job creation. According to the latest FAS Manpower Forecasting Study, the number of employed scientists, engineers, business and IT professionals grew strongly in recent years, with employment in each of these categories at least doubling between 1996 and 2008. This trend is expected to resume as a reco
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These days, trust, credit and cash flow are all in short supply in the corporate world. Smaller enterprises have been affected in particular by the breakdown in financial connections Firms can do themselves a big favour with their suppliers and financiers where they can prove to everyone's satsifaction that their accounts present a full and fair picture of the state of the Company. Writing recently in Finance Dublin, Brendan Sheridan of Deloittes observes that "disclosures should be more detailed than in times of economic growth." He notes that the UK Financial Reporting Review Panel recently reviewed 326 financial statements. It found that "the current stan
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As a Vistage Group Chair operating in Dublin, I am very conscious of the challenges and opportunities facing CEOs today.
The dictionary of disaster words has been exhausted to describe the current economic and financial position of the country in which businesses have to operate.
And yet, every CEO has to get up and lead his or her business every day, and find ways of dealing directly and through his/her staff with a myriad of issues, all of which are more complex and time-consuming today:-
- retaining existing customers and maintaining the relevance of service offerings and products......
- finding new customers and products,
