On November 19th Harvey Nash celebrated the publication of their Technology Survey 2015.
It was a useful and interesting event.
Some key take aways were
+ At 21% of foreign workers, Ireland is below the global average of 30%.
(Switzerland has 59%, but of course we don’t have the United Nations in Dublin.)
+ People want to be part of something special, rather than just working for a particular brand.
+ It is difficult to hire for technical and engineering roles.
+ New ‘technologists’ are in demand, while ‘leaders’ much less so.
+ Companies must keep innovating or they will fail.
Gerard O’Hara of Facebook, Ben Hurley of NDRC, John Holland of Whole World Band and Damien Basselier of Smart & Co. spoke at the event.
They were all interesting, and we hope to bring you follow up interviews with each of them.
John Holland stressed his desire to find MAAD people, who had the key talents of Motivation Attitude, Ability and Decision making. He also suggested, from tough learning experiences to hire slowly and fire quickly. (The next evening his company also won 3 awards at the Eircom Spiders!)
Here is one excerpt from the report.
The results are now in, and there are some really interesting insights, with a shift in innovation priorities towards data/analytics becoming the top innovation priority for technology professionals from Ireland, 71 per cent will focus time and effort on the issue this year, compared to 62 per cent of global peers:
Chart: Top innovation priorities of technology professionals in Ireland vs. global average
| Global Av. | Ireland | Variance | |
| Big Data and Analytics | 62% | 71% | 9% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 69% | 68% | -1% |
| Mobile Technologies | 69% | 65% | -4% |
| A.I. & Machine Learning | 36% | 42% | 6% |
| Infrastructure Automation | 41% | 41% | 0% |
| Cyber Security | 46% | 39% | -7% |
| Open Source | 33% | 37% | 4% |
| Social Media Technologies | 34% | 30% | -4% |
| eHealth | 32% | 28% | -4% |
| Virtual Reality Technologies | 26% | 23% | -3% |
| Speech Recognition | 23% | 20% | -3% |
| Near-Field Communications | 20% | 18% | -2% |
Maybe I’m getting old, but the artwork also seemed quite reminiscent of El Lissitsky, 1919
To get a copy of the report contact the Dublin office via @HarveyNashIrl
Until then here is a link to last year’s one which you can download as a pdf.
More about Irish Tech News
Irish Tech News are Ireland’s No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland’s No.1 Tech Podcast too.
You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news
If you’d like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at [email protected] now to discuss.
Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at [email protected] now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience.
You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.