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Management development
I posted previously about my participation in the management development programme, delivered by Blaise Brosnan of the Management Resource Institute.
I have now completed the programme, which was one of the best I ever participated in. The practical information and advice given by Blaise, along with the shared expereince of the other participants on the programme was [...]
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Notwithstanding the challenging times emerging in 2008 that I alluded to in an earlier post, we had a busy year of activity providing supports to start-up and expanding small businesses last year. I have provided a very brief synopsis of activity below:
Hundreds of people availed of our ’business advisory’ service and many more received basic information and advice [...]
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Challenging Times
2008 saw the onset of extremely challenging times for the vast majority of our clients.
The Irish economy began to change dramatically during the year after 15 years of sustained and unprecedented growth. There was a significant slowdown in the economy, the main causes of which are attributed to varying degress to a combination of: [...]
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Enterprise Week 2008
We were involved in running a very successful Enterprise Week here in County Kilkenny as part of the regional ‘Spirit of Enterprise Week’ in the south east, which ended on 17th October last. Thanks to all our partner organisations who were involved in hosting the various events around the County.
The ‘flagship’ regional event – the ‘Making [...]
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Enterprise Bus
More and more people are considering starting a business. This is confirmed by the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for Ireland (www.gemconsortium.org), which reveals that some 270,000 adults have expressed a desire to start a business within the next 3 years. GEM also reports that 44% of Irish adults perceive that there are good opportunities to establish [...]
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business innovation network
Earlier this year, the Kilkenny CEB piloted a series of ‘creative workshops’ with a group of CEB client companies. The group included companies from the neighbouring counties of South Tipperary and Carlow. This pilot programme proved extremely successful at introducing the effectiveness of creative thinking techniques in assisting participants to consider their existing product and service [...]
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getting your product to market
It doesn’t seem like over 2 months ago since I posted on the information seminar we held in conjunction with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCOI) for the ‘Getting Your Craft Product to Market’ Programme!
Well yesterday I attended the function to award the certificates of completion to the craft producers that participated in the course, along with Una Parsons (the [...]
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Starting a Business Seminar
Hi there again,
I presented at the ’Starting a Business Seminar’ jointly hosted by the Kilkenny CEB and Bank of Ireland (BOI) Kilkenny last night in the Ormonde Hotel. I was one of 7 speakers at the event, which I initially thought was rather extensive, however each presentation was limited to a maximum of 10 minutes and the feedback I [...]
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county enterprise award winner
A very busy Enterprise Week came to a close on Friday afternoon last with the announcement at a ceremony in the Lyrath Estate Hotel that Ormonde Technologies Ltd are this year’s recipient of the Kilkenny CEB - Enterprise Award.
Ormonde Technologies (www.surfbox.ie) is a fledgling company owned by Thomas Marry and Declan Lennon, and they received their Enterprise [...]
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enterprise exhibition
Enterprise Week is now in full flow.
Last night (2nd October) our ’Enterprise Exhibition’ event took place in the Rivercourt Hotel, and it really was an expo of all of the agencies that provide support to small business, along with a wide range of local business member and network organisations, exhibiting their wares under one roof.
We thought it [...]
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