IBM research initiative

UCD is to be one of three universities to participate in an IBM project to conduct research on advanced supply chain practices that can be used to help businesses to respond on demand to changing market conditions. 

Laboratories will be set up at Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. The laboratories, which will simulate the workings of a complex supply chain, will be linked via an advanced computing grid for cross-university research and learning. 

Earlier this fall a similar laboratory opened at Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Created by IBM, that facility will be the prototype for those that will follow and will be linked to the three new laboratories.   

Pictured at the launch of the initiative in Ireland are: back - Conor Simpson, Business Development Executive, IDA Ireland; Gus Jones, ICT Divisional Manager, IDA Ireland; Professor Philip Bourke, dean of the Faculty of Commerce; John Walsh, Deployment Manager, IBM Ireland. Middle - Bairbre Stewart, Financial Controller, IBM Technology Campus Ireland; Ken Foley, Business Development Manager, IBM Ireland; James Flynn, University Relations Manager, IBM Ireland; Professor Stefan Klein, Department of MIS, Graduate School of Business. Front - Dr Donna Marshall, Department of Business Administration; Dr Brian Fynes, Department of Business Administration; Fernand Sanchez, Vice President of the Technology Campus, IBM Ireland; Dr Sean de Burca, Department of Marketing; Dr Allen Higgins, Department of Business Administration.