Today is a wake up call to Irish business to prioritise Innovation as its Number One commercial imperative for 2016. Those who don’t will simply get left behind. Organisations need to take a hard look at themselves to assess that their culture is innovation ready. At its best, Innovation should encourage a broader collaborative experience, leveraging market […]
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I was delighted to go to the U.S recently on this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year CEO Retreat. About 100 people (this year’s 24 EOY finalists, previous finalists of which I was one, the EY crew and media) all went to Boston for a week of learning and connecting. It was jam-packed with fantastic […]
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Who would be a banking CEO these days? Waking up to geopolitical uncertainty, cyber-attacks, a raft of new regulations or the menace of technological disruptors aiming to kill off the banking industry altogether. In the words of one banking CEO quoted in a recent PWC report, “the world needs banking but not banks.” […]
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We predict that Product Management will be the next sourcing ground for Ireland’s future CEO’s. In an era where assessing and delivering the needs of the customer is absolute, there’s a robust argument for saying that business talent working in Product Management will have all the key commercial skills needed to become economic drivers of […]
Read More ›I was particularly keen to meet with Frank Gleeson to understand more about his leadership style and to discover a little more about one of the hidden giants in the Irish food and retail industry that is Aramark. To date, Frank’s most prominent position was with Topaz Energy Group, where he spent 12 years, culminating […]
Read More ›Leading business and cultural figures Derek Kehoe, CEO, BNP Paribas Group, Ireland, Simon Taylor, CEO, National Concert Hall, Angela Dorgan, CEO, First Music Contact and Gerry Macken, CEO, Digital Hub Development Agency were interviewed on the theme by Andrew Hetherington, CEO, Business to Arts. “What we’ve learnt is that the notion of Creative Leadership is […]
Read More ›If you check the business news in Ireland you’ll see new roles being created in the field of data. Entwined with the tech and FinTech sectors, data is a hot space for talent and brings many challenges for the C-suite, particularly when addressing skill shortages and its place within the organisation structure. It was 2009 when […]
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Outputs from Alternatives Think Tank – 8th July 2015 by Charley Stoney, Group Managing Director, Alternatives This was the fourth in the Marketing think tank series hosted by Alternatives and attended by senior marketing and digital leaders across the banking, retail, medical, automotive, insurance, FMCG, gaming, media and telco industries. Facilitated by Asta Lund, Multi-Channel […]
Read More ›Charley Stoney, Managing Director of the Alternatives Group, interviews Pat Magee, Managing Director of Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard, on driving value in the drinks industry and how the sector is faring in these challenging times. Pat’s career path was always sales-focused even though he completed a marketing degree at night while at Reckitt and Colman […]
Read More ›After years of one-way traffic, the Irish Financial Services & Fintech outlook for 2015 is promising. Senior Irish financial executives, and bankers in particular, are returning to Dublin. They will face a changed landscape with recent employment headlines centred all too often around the proliferating FinTech sector, or larger firms using Ireland for a data […]
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