Biography
Dr Brian O’Flaherty is a member of faculty in the Department of Business Information Systems at University College Cork. Having initially worked in the software industry, he has been teaching in UCC for over 21 years. He originally studied Computer Science and completed his doctoral research in Management Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He was involved with Business Information Systems in UCC from its inception and is the current academic director of the MSc (Innovation, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship), an Innovation practise programme. He is an active academic entrepreneur, with a spinout in Green IT and recently licensed a predictive analytics platform to a company. He is co-founder of the Alta Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Learning in UCC and his areas of interest include Information Infrastructures, Service Innovation and Design Science, and University wide Entrepreneurship Education.
Since January 2015, he is coordinating the EU-XCeL (Accelerating Entrepreneurial Learning Across European Regions) Project, an EU funded Horizon 2020 project, which will establish ICT entrepreneurship education initiatives and spaces across Europe. It sets out to train ICT entrepreneurs to be ‘incubator ready’ and this is informed by research into current practice in incubators across Europe. EU-XCEL will develop a network of ICT entrepreneurship creative physical and virtual spaces and coordinate European-wide intensive entrepreneurial action training events called ‘Start-up Scrums’ between consortia members with international teams.
Research Interests
My research interests include: Innovative Software, Information Infrastructure, New Product Development; Predictive Analytics, IS Entrepreneurship Education, Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Process. I endeavour to undertake high impact research as an academic entrepreneur and this activity has produced three licenses to companies and one campus spin-out.
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposal Preparation. | Enterprise Irl | 20-JAN-14 | 23-APR-14 | €655.00 | |
| COPIT CO2 Reduction for Profit in IT | Industry/EI Projects | 01-OCT-09 | 31-DEC-12 | €35,500.00 | |
| Predict X - A Cloud based predictive Analytics Service Platform for Customer Retention in Publishing. | Enterprise Irl | 01-OCT-12 | 30-JUN-14 | €146,090.00 | |
| To create a prototype that would allow a person to interact with a service delivery expert. | Enterprise Irl | 01-MAY-12 | 31-OCT-12 | €6,500.00 | |
| Travel Support | Enterprise Irl | 30-JAN-14 | 31-OCT-14 | €3,000.00 | |
| Innovation Voucher Calibration Services System Exploration | Enterprise Irl | 05-AUG-08 | 17-OCT-08 | €6,500.00 | |
| COPIT CO2 Reduction for Profit in IT | Enterprise Irl | 01-OCT-09 | 30-SEP-10 | €130,875.00 | |
| An exploration of Predictive Analytic Services. | Enterprise Irl | 01-JUN-11 | 30-NOV-11 | €15,000.00 | |
| Proposal Preparation. | Enterprise Irl | 30-JAN-14 | 31-OCT-14 | €12,500.00 | |
| Accelerating Entrepreneurial Learning across European Regions. | European Union | 01-JAN-15 | 31-DEC-16 | €447,398.00 | |
| Predict X - A Cloud Based Predictive Analytics Service Platform for Customer Retention in Publishing. | Industry/EI Projects | 01-OCT-12 | 31-DEC-13 | €28,370.00 |
Publications
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2009) | 'The Lead-User method in Practice, Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls' O'Flaherty , B. O'Donoghue, J. ; (2009) 'The Lead-User method in Practice, Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls' In: Lessons from Technology Entrepreneurship Education. Ireland: IOS Press. [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Positioning Predictive Analytics – A Design Evaluation' O’Flaherty, B. and Heavin, C (2014) 'Positioning Predictive Analytics – A Design Evaluation' In: DSS 2.0 - Supporting Decision Making with New Technologies. Amsterdam Netherlands: IOS. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Lessons from Technology Entrepreneurship Education - The Lead-User method in Practice' O’Flaherty, B. and O’Donoghue, J. (2009) 'Lessons from Technology Entrepreneurship Education - The Lead-User method in Practice' In: Cases on Technology Innovation: Entrepreneurial Successes and Pitfalls. London: Business Science Reference. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2010) | 'An international survey of EEG use in the neonatal intensive care unit' Boylan, GB; Burgoyne, L; Moore, C; O'Flaherty, B; Rennie, JM; (2010) 'An international survey of EEG use in the neonatal intensive care unit'. Acta Paediatrica, 99 :1150-1155 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Using smart phone technology to teach neonatal endotracheal intubation (NeoTube): application development and uptake' Hawkes, C. P.,Hanotin, S.,O'Flaherty, B.,Woodworth, S.,Ryan, C. A.,Dempsey, E. M. (2012) 'Using smart phone technology to teach neonatal endotracheal intubation (NeoTube): application development and uptake'. Acta Paediatr, 101 (33) [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'Positioning Predictive Analytics for Customer Retention' O’Flaherty, B. and Heavin, C. (2015) 'Positioning Predictive Analytics for Customer Retention'. Journal of Decision Systems, [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Innovation Intermediation and Emerging Medical Devices – The Lead-User Method in Practice' O'Flaherty, B., O'Donoghue, J. and Bogue, J. (2013) 'Innovation Intermediation and Emerging Medical Devices – The Lead-User Method in Practice'. Journal of Cases On Information Technology, 15 (3):23-37 [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2006) | 14th European Conference on Information Systems (Ljungberg J., Andersson, M. eds.) O'Flaherty B., Kiely G., Hayes E., Bartlett; (2006) The Dynamics of a Spatial Data Infrastructure: A National Case Study 14th European Conference on Information Systems (Ljungberg J., Andersson, M. eds.) Goteborg, , 12-JUN-06 - 14-JUN-06 [Details] | |
| (2004) | Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on e-Government Hayes, E.; O'Flaherty, B.; Bartlett, D. and Kiely, G.; (2004) The Dynamics of an NSDI - Towards an Analytical and Comparative Framework Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on e-Government Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, , 17-JUN-04 - 18-JUN-04 [Details] | |
| (2013) | 2013 International Conference on Information Systems O'Flaherty, B., Pope, A., Thornton, C. and Woodworth, S. (2013) Capturing multi-stakeholder needs in Customer-Centric Cloud Service Design 2013 International Conference on Information Systems [Details] | |
| (2012) | ECIME, 6th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation O’Flaherty, B., and Bogue J. (2012) An Exploratory Study of Innovation Intermediation in IS Education ECIME, 6th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation Cork, Ireland, , 13-SEP-12 - 14-SEP-12 [Details] | |
| (2012) | Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2012 Gleasure R, Feller, J & O'Flaherty, B. (2012) SCOPED: The Development of an IS Design Theory from Neurologically Grounded Models of Visual Cognition Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS 2012 [Details] | |
| (2012) | European Design Science Symposium (EDSS) 2012 O’Flaherty, B., Woodworth, S., Thornton C., & O’Connor Y. (2012) An Exploration of Customer-Centric Cloud Service Design European Design Science Symposium (EDSS) 2012 [Details] | |
| (2009) | UCC Translational Health Research Conference Burgoyne, L., O’Flaherty, B., Moore, C & Boylan, G. (2009) Neurological Monitoring in the Neonatal setting – A Disruptive Innovation Perspective UCC Translational Health Research Conference [Details] | |
| (2013) | Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Conference O’Flaherty, B., and Bogue. J., (2013) An exploratory study of Innovation Intermediation in Information Systems and Food Business Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Conference Waterford Institute of Technology, [Details] | |
| (2012) | International Conference of Information Systems Gleasure, R, Feller, J. & O'Flaherty B. (2012) Procedurally transparent design science research: a design process model International Conference of Information Systems [Details] | |
| (2012) | European Conference on Information Systems Gleasure R, Feller, J. & O'Flaherty, B. (2012) Human-Centred Design: Existing approaches and a future research agenda European Conference on Information Systems [Details] | |
| (2014) | DSS 2.0 – Supporting decision making with new technologies IFIP WG 8.3 O’Flaherty, B. and Heavin, C. (2014) Positioning Predictive Analytics – A Design Evaluation DSS 2.0 – Supporting decision making with new technologies IFIP WG 8.3 [Details] |
Other
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2005) | Towards A Stage Model For Gis and Sdi Deployment In Local Government. O'Flaherty, B, Bartlett, D, Lyons, G, Keankeo, W, Endig, M, Schutz, JE; (2005) Towards A Stage Model For Gis and Sdi Deployment In Local Government. Other [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | National Award for Entrepreneurship Education | Enterprise ireland | |
| 2012 | UCC Research Commercialisation Award | UCC technology Transfer Ofice |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association of Information Systems | Member | 01-JAN-15 / 31-DEC-15 |
Conference Contributions
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2012) | InterTradeIreland - All-Island Innovation Programme Annual Conference, Bogue J. and O’Flaherty, B. (2012) Student Enterprise as a University Innovation Intermediation Resource – A Comparative Study. InterTradeIreland - All-Island Innovation Programme Annual Conference, NUI Galway , 12-JUN-12 - 13-JUN-12. [Details] | |
| (2005) | Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems. Bankok, Thailand, July 7th ¿ 10th 2005, O¿Flaherty, B., D. Bartlett, G. Lyons, W. Keankeo, M. Endig, J. Schulz and D. Birnbaum ; (2005) Towards a Stage Model for GIS and SDI Deployment in Local Government. [Non-Peer reviewed published proceedings], Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems. Bankok, Thailand, July 7th ¿ 10th 2005, . [Details] | |
| (2004) | 4th European Conference on e-Government, Dublin Castle, Ireland, 17th - 18th June 2004, Hayes, E., O'Flaherty, B., Bartlett, D., and Kiely, G; (2004) The Dynamics of an NSDI: Towards an Analytical and Comparative Framework. 4th European Conference on e-Government, Dublin Castle, Ireland, 17th - 18th June 2004, Dublin, Ireland , 17-JUN-04 - 18-JUN-04. [Details] | |
| (2014) | European Conference in Information Systems (ECIS), Brian O'Flaherty, Katerina Pramatari, Ciara Fitzgerald & Liora Katzenstein (2014) Entrepreneurial Teaching and Research in IS Panel. [Other], European Conference in Information Systems (ECIS), Tel Aviv , 09-JUN-14 - 11-JUN-14. [Details] | |
| (2009) | Translational Health Research Conference Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC, Burgoyne L, O'Flaherty B, Moore C, Boylan G (2009) An international study of EEG monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit. [Oral Presentation], Translational Health Research Conference Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC, UCC . [Details] | |
| (2013) | Research Symposium on Entrepreneurial Universities, Technology and Knowledge Transfer, O'Flaherty, B & Bogue, J (2013) An exploratory study of innovation INtermediation in Entrepreneurship Education. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Research Symposium on Entrepreneurial Universities, Technology and Knowledge Transfer, Whitaker Institute, NUIG Galway , 15-AUG-13. [Details] | |
| (2004) | 10th EC-GI&GIS Workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 23rd and 24th June 2004, Rauschenbach, P., Bartlett, D., Schulz, J., O¿Flaherty, B., Watcharaporn, K., Birnbaum, D. and Hayes, E. ; (2004) European assistance in SDI development for Thai Local Government: the SAGIS-LoG project. [Non-Peer reviewed published proceedings], 10th EC-GI&GIS Workshop, Warsaw, Poland, 23rd and 24th June 2004, . [Details] |
Patents
| Patent Number | Title | Inventor | Granted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB110297616 | A computer with energy saving capability and a computer application to provide energy saving capability | Dr Brian O'Flaherty | 21-FEB-11 |
Licensing
| Title | Inventor | Licensee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Watch IT: Method and Software for Green IT Policy Mapping and Management | Dr Brian O'Flaherty | 3pro EnergyWatch | |
| Predict-X An Exploration of cloud technology to predicitive analytics | Dr Brian O'Flaherty | Statistical Solutions Ltd | |
| Predict-X - A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETENTION MANAGEMENT, USING PREDICTIVE SEGMENTATION | Dr Brian O'Flaherty | Statistical Solutions Ltd. |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation Platform Working Group | member | 2013 / | |
| Quercus Selection Committee (Entrepreneurship Stream) | Chair | 2014 / | |
| Business School taskforce In Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Co-Chair | 2014 / | |
| Cork Innovates | UCC Representative | 2012 / | |
| Green Campus Committee | Member | 2014 / |
Journal Activities
| Journal | Role | To / From | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journal Of Decision Systems | Guest Editor | 01-SEP-14 - |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
Current Postgraduate Students
| Student | Degree Type | |
|---|---|---|
| Thornton Colm Henry | Masters Degree by Research | |
| Treacy Stephen Thomas | Doctoral Degree (Structured) |
Modules Taught
| Term (ID)) | Title | Link | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Technology Business Planning | PG7030 | Technology Business Planning | |
| 2015 | Information Systems Controls and Security Policy | IS4420 | Information Systems Controls and Security Policy | |
| 2015 | Technology Business Planning | IS6306 | Technology Business Planning | |
| 2015 | Innovation Project | CO6301 | Innovation Project | |
| 2015 | Creativity and Opportunity Recognition | PG7031 | Creativity and Opportunity Recognition | |
| 2015 | Accelerating a Technology Business | IS6308 | Accelerating a Technology Business | |
| 2015 | Creativity and Opportunity Recognition | IS6307 | Creativity and Opportunity Recognition |
Contact details
- Brian O'Flaherty
Lecturer - boflaherty@afis.ucc.ie
- Business Information Systems
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland - +353-21-490-3000
- +353 21 490 3000
- www.ucc.ie/