Biography

Dr Mary Daly is a lecturer and researcher in Business Information Systems in the Cork University School of Business. Her teaching covers undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education modules.  Her research interests are primarily associated with organisational decision making and the use and role of IS that support managerial decision making.

Prior to joining UCC in 2004, her career spanned  international companies, multinational corporations as well as indigenous manufacturing and distribution companies, providing IT management,  project management and process improvement expertise for enterprise systems implementations.




Research Interests

Research interests include Decision support systems, Big Data, the role and impact of Information systems for strategic decision making,  Green IT,  and IT and Data Governance.

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2014) 'Decision Support and Decision Guidance: A Case Study in the Financial Services – DSS2.0 Is Still Far Away'
Daly, M and Adam, F (2014) 'Decision Support and Decision Guidance: A Case Study in the Financial Services – DSS2.0 Is Still Far Away' In: Dss 2.0 – Supporting Decision Making With New Technologies. Amsterdam, NL: IOS Press. [Details]
(2012) 'Embedding Business Intelligence Systems within Organisations, Fusing Decision Support Systems into the Fabric of the Context'
Shanks, G. Bekmamedova, N., Adam, F. and Daly, M. (2012) 'Embedding Business Intelligence Systems within Organisations, Fusing Decision Support Systems into the Fabric of the Context' In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: IOS Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2012) 'Embedding Business Intelligence Systems within Organisations.. DSS'
Shanks, Graeme G,Bekmamedova, Nargiza,Adam, Frederic,Daly, Mary (2012) 'Embedding Business Intelligence Systems within Organisations.. DSS'. DSSDSS, :113-124 [Details]
(2011) 'Understanding decision support in a financial services organisation'
Daly, Mary,Adam, Frederic (2011) 'Understanding decision support in a financial services organisation'. Info Minfo M, 10 (3939):4-14 [Details]
(2011) 'Understanding Organisational Decision Support Maturity: Case Studies of Irish Organisations'
Daly, Mary,Adam, Frederic (2011) 'Understanding Organisational Decision Support Maturity: Case Studies of Irish Organisations'. International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST), 3 (22):57-78 [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2011) 'UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT MATURITY ¿ CASE STUDIES OF IRISH ORGANISATIONS'
Mary Daly, Frederic Adam; (2011) 'UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT MATURITY ¿ CASE STUDIES OF IRISH ORGANISATIONS' International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, 3 (2) :57-78. [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2014) 17th IFIP WG 8.2 conference on DSS
Daly, M and Adam, F (2014) Decision Support and Decision Guidance: A Case Study in the Financial 17th IFIP WG 8.2 conference on DSS Paris, France, [Details]
(2014) 19th conference de l’AIM, Aix-en-Provence, France
Daly, M and Adam, F (2014) Understanding the Decision Landscape of Organisations as a Blueprint for IS Impact 19th conference de l’AIM, Aix-en-Provence, France [Details]
(2014) 6TH International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing – KMIS 2014
Heavin, C., Daly, M., Adam, F. (2014) Small Data to Big Data - The IS Continuum 6TH International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing – KMIS 2014 Rome, Italy, [Details]
(2009) ECIS 2009 Preceedings
Mary Daly, Tom Butler (2009) Environmental Responsibility and Green IT: An Institutional Perspective ECIS 2009 Preceedings [Details]
(2008) CDM
Mary Daly and Fr\'ed\'eric Adam and Jean-Charles Pomerol; (2008) Analysing the true Contribution of Decision Support Tools to Decision Making - Case Studies in Irish Organisations CDM , pp.16-27 [Details]
(2008) IFIP WG 8.3
Daly, M, Adam, F and Pomerol, JC; (2008) Understanding the true Contribution of Decision Support Tools to Managerial Decision Making - Case Studies in Irish Organisations IFIP WG 8.3 [Details]

Standard

  Year Publication
(2008) Analysing the true Contribution of Decision Support Tools to Decision Making-Case Studies in Irish Organisations.. CDM.
Daly, Mary,Adam, Frédéric,Pomerol, Jean-Charles (2008) Analysing the true Contribution of Decision Support Tools to Decision Making-Case Studies in Irish Organisations.. CDM. Standard [Details]

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
University Ethics committee (UEC) Member representing College of Business and Law 2013 / 2016
MSc BIS program coordination Co-director 2014 / 2016

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
Department/Research Centre, UCC Lecturer AFIS ¿ BIS 01-OCT-04 / 01-OCT-10
EMC IT Manager,Enterprise applications 01-SEP-00 / 01-JUN-04
EMC IT Ireland Manager 01-DEC-97 / 30-OCT-00
Sprecher & Schuh, Switzerland Intl Project manager 01-JUL-94 / 30-AUG-97

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2002 UCC MBA Business
1976 UCC Postgraduate Diploma Teaching & Learning in Higher Education Education
1975 UCC BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Science

Journal Activities

  Journal Role To / From
European Conference On Information Systems Referee -

Teaching Interests

Recent Postgraduates

  Graduation Year Student Name Institution Degree Type Thesis Title
2017 Ibrehim Alhassan University College Cork PHD Critical success factors for an effective data governance programme

Modules Taught

  Term (ID)) Title Link Subject
2015 Information Systems Infrastructure IS3314Information Systems Infrastructure
2015 Electronic Business IS3303Electronic Business

Internal Collaborators

  Name Institute Country
Dr Frederic Adam University College cork IRELAND
Dr Ciara Heaven University College cork IRELAND
Dr Tom Butler University College cork IRELAND

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation/ Institution Country
Prof. Gloria Wren Sellinger Business School U.S.A.