Business Extras

Deposit Rates at Feb 09

With interest rates heading for zero in the US and the UK and the European Central Bank rates also heading in that direction, retail rates are continuing to fall. So what about savings, and rates for money on deposit? Can your money make any money these days?

Tim Desmond took a look at what's on offer. You can see a selection of the products available here.

Deposit Rates 1

Deposit Rates 2

HEY JOHN - WANNA NEW MOTOR?
The Business Car Finance Comparison Top Ten (valid as of 11/01/2009). Click here.

Intune Networks presentation - Click here to download.

This Irish company have a laser based technology that just could revolutionise high speed internet, allowing tv and video to run in full high definition without problems and without slowing down other internet traffic.

Innovation Key to New Growth - 12th October 2008

Tom Cook went to Croke Park for the enterprise seminar in late September - Listen here.

Enterprise Ireland hosted this year's National Innovation Forum recently. Attended by over three hundred of the countries top industrialist, the theme was "Making Innovation Deliver Results", A key aspect of the Forum is to provide specific examples of how Irish organisations, large and small, can make innovation enhance their bottom line, improve efficiency in product and service development, strengthen client relations, identify under-utilised skills and create committment to an innovation culture.

The Forum was aimed at CEO's, senior managers, and executives responsible for driving and delivering innovation.
Start up firms and entrepreneurs looking to develop new
businesses.

Established firms seeking new ways to innovate in order to
access new customers and markets, and deliver increased
value to existing customers. Senior staff from Third Level Institutions committed to supporting excellence in innovation in Ireland. Consultants engaged in delivering innovation strategies for their clients.

Other leading international speakers at the Forum included Dr Elena Lurie-Luke, Head of Bioscience Business Development at Procter and Gamble EMEA; Professor Cornelius Herstatt, Institute of Technology and Innovation Management, Hamburg University of Technology; and Alex Osterwalder, founder of Business Model Design and international commentator on innovation. Robert Shelton former senior executive at Arthur D. Little and the Stanford Research Institute, author of Making Innovation Work and Leader of PRTM's Innovation Practice in the USA, David Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, Imperial College London. Bernard Hensey, CEO Phive Plasma Technology, and Kouchi Zhang Principal Scientist at Philips Applied Technologies and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering in Eindhoven University of Technology.

Web: www.enterprise-ireland.com/innovation

Enterprise Ireland John Smith Phone:+353 (01) 8082206 [52206]

Email innovation@enterprise-ireland.com

Innovation Forum - Speakers - Contact Details

Professor David Gann
Email: d.gann@imperial.ac.uk

Bernard Hensey
Email: bernard@hensey.com

Cornelius Herstatt
E-mail: c.herstatt@tu-harburg.de

Elena Lurie - Luke
E-mail: lurieluke.e@pg.com

Alexander Osterwalder
Email: alex@businessmodeldesign.com
Homepage: http://inforge.unil.ch/aosterwa

Robert Shelton
Email: rshelton@prtm.com
http://www.prtm.com/makinginnovationwork/

Kouchi Zhang
Email: g.q.zhang@nxp.com

Dennis Staffer
Email: dstauffer@insightfusion.com

Aideen Waters:
Email: aideen.waters@allianz.ie,

THE BUSINESS PROPERTY INDEX

In the first week of September 2007, The Business selected 50 residential properties - and we've been tracking their progress ever since. Just 6% of the properties have sold for the original asking price.

By April 2008:

In total, only 36% of our properties had sold.
6% sold for the original asking price.
A further 30% sold - but at a reduced price.
64% of all the properties failed to sell, or were withdrawn by the agent.
In total, 24% were withdrawn from sale, and 40% remain for sale.
40% of all the properties remain on sale today through the same agents.
Of those, 60% have dropped their price; 40% have not.
Of those that dropped their prices, the average price reduction was 10%.
About the Property Index:

The Business Property Index included:

A range of property sizes, from 1-bed apartments to five-bed, detached houses on their own land.
Urban and rural properties from 12 different counties across the Republic of Ireland.
Properties of asking prices ranging from 160,000 to 1.8 million.
Properties on the books of dozens of different estate agents.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Liam Birkett - 01 APRIL 2006
For anyone starting a business, already in business, those contemplating exporting and others eyeing the Internet - a guide to Intellectual Property (trade marks, patents, copyright and design registration) and pitfalls and opportunities.
Click here to read the articles.

Contact Liam Birkett
Telephone: 01-296 8692
Email: birkett@eircom.net

OUTSOURCING AND HOME WORKING - 25th Feb. 2006
John was joined by Carol Ann Casey, HR Consultant on HR management of outsourcing and home working. Carol Ann Casey is Managing Director of CA Consulting Limited.
Click here for more information. (.pdf)