Trevor Clohessy

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Atlantic Technological University

My new book from NovoRay Publisher's entitled: "Blockchain: The Business Perspective" is now available to purchase. Each purchase comes with PowerPoint presentation slide decks for each chapter. Perfect for consultants, instructors, learners and lecturers who want to tailor their presentations on blockchain. eBook and Lecture Slides Link: https://...

Counterfeit medications, medication overprescribing and a slow antiquated process encompassed in recalling batches of medications represent serious supply chain concerns for the pharmaceutical industry. Blockchain, the technology underpinning the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been touted as a possible solution and panacea for the pharmaceutical indus...

Many individuals are passionate for physical activity such as cycling, running, and soccer. Drawing from the dualistic model of passion, the purpose of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect relationships between passion (harmonious and obsessive) for physical activity, life satisfaction, performance, and innovativeness in organis...

Important technological, organizational, environmental, individual, and task-related blockchain adoption considerations are identified and discussed which can be used as a foundation for advancing the blockchain adoption research agenda. The framework combines five salient adoption considerations and presents the most important antecedents of organ...

Students entering third-level higher education undergo a transformational learning journey. Learning in this context is defined as the need to understand key concepts (threshold) to engage with the academic content of the course. This learning journey is moulded by their experiences not only within the context of the third-level institution but is...

Driven by the ubiquity of smartphones, sports gambling has intensified globally. Most mobile gambling apps are mandated to offer harm minimisation features which are IT tools designed to help prevent harmful gambling activity. Existing research on the effectiveness of gambling harm minimisation features often overlooks the fact that individuals eng...

While blockchain adoption levels across industries are increasing, there are still challenges which are preventing organizations from leveraging the potential of blockchain technologies in supply chains. Specific challenges include a lack of blockchain legislation, and regulation, technology maturity, a lack of blockchain skills and so on. While...

A smart city is a technologically advanced metropolitan region that collects data using various information technologies, and sensors. The goal of a smart city is to maximise the utilisation of resources in a city to make daily living easier and better for those who work and live there. Over the past decade smart city research has focused on numero...

Blockchain is assisting enterprises in digitally transforming their supply chain management activities. Supply chain management (SCM) is defined as the “systematic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a supply chain, for the purpose of improving the long-term perfor...

Technology adoption remains a key driver of achieving a competitive edge over competitors, better operational effectiveness and reducing operating costs. An under researched area of technology adoption is how a technology diffuses and is assimilated throughout an organisation. We first introduce an overview of Blockchain followed by a summary of Bl...

Blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT) and smart-contract technology enhance the effectiveness and automation of business processes along supply chains. The rising interest in the development of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) shows that blockchain and related decentralized technologies have the potential to reform how busines...

Students entering third-level higher education undergo a transformational learning journey. Learning in this context is defined as the need to understand key concepts (threshold) to engage with the academic content of the course. This learning journey is moulded by their experiences not only within the context of the third-level institution but is...

Technological adoption has become a key goal of digital transformation within firms, affecting many facets of an organisation, such as attaining competitive advantage, increased revenue, reduction of operational costs, and improving operational efficiency. Blockchain as a decentralised peer-to-peer technology appears uniquely suited to being deploy...

Technological adoption has become a key goal of digital transformation within firms, affecting many facets of an organisation such as attaining competitive advantage, increased revenue, reduction of operational costs, and improving operational efficiency. Blockchain as a decentralised peer to peer technology appears uniquely suited to being deploye...

This is a collection of the best research papers by students undertaking the Certificate in Blockchain for Business at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

In this research paper series, students explore the economic implications of distributed ledger technologies and blockchain applied to industry and public policy. All papers included in this volume have been independently reviewed by experts in digital technologies and blockchain, in collaboration with the editorial team. The research presented...

As there are new working models which offer new and exciting opportunities for business, employees, society; the significant and strategically important technologies and policy that will affect opportunities are around Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Artificial Intelligence, operating within business strategy and government policy. DLT reco...

Digital technology has been a key feature of professional accountancy for some time, but now artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being applied alongside. Understanding digital tools and AI is one thing, but interpreting the insights and indicators that they throw out is on another level. Decision-makers need to be able to understand what...

Blockchain is assisting enterprises to digitally transform their supply chain management (SCM) activities. SCM aims to create an efficient and coordinated supply chain via the development of internal and external linkages (Ketchen and Hult, 2007). Achieving this objective is largely dependent on how effectively organizations use their technological...

The continued proliferation of information technology in all aspects of our lives fosters benefits but also generates risks to individuals’ privacy. In emerging contexts, such as government surveillance technologies, there is a dearth of research investigating the positive and negative drivers of citizens’ acceptance. This is an important gap given...

Call for papers: Blockchain/DLT: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Smart Cities

Creating and capturing value with new digital technologies such as cloud computing is often fraught with complexity and ambiguity for incumbent information technology (IT) firms. Using the business model concept as a lens, the objective of this chapter is to address a current gap in our knowledge about the impact of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on...

Pre ECIS Workshop on Blockchain Research on June 13th and 14th in Marrakesh, Morocco: https://ecis2020.ma/workshops-and-ancillary-meetings/ Abstract Submission Requirements/Limits: This workshop is open to academic, public sector, governmental and industry participants. Workshop participants are selected based on extended abstracts. These abstrac...

Purpose While the positive health benefits of fitness apps, which motivate and track physical exercise, are widely acknowledged, the adverse connection between these technologies and wellbeing has received little attention. The purpose of this paper is to determine how the social dimensions of fitness apps predict the type of passion (harmonious an...

Cloud-based digital transformation is having a profound impact on new and incumbent information technology service providers. In transitioning from traditional to cloud-based service provision, some IT service providers are experiencing substantial difficulties in realizing effective business models. Taking the perspective of 20 large business mode...

Blockchain and other trustless systems have gone from being relatively obscure technologies, which were only known to a small community of computer scientists and cryptologists, to mainstream phenomena that are now considered powerful game changers for many industries. This book explores and assesses real-world use cases and case studies on blockch...

Counterfeit medications, medication over-prescribing and a slow antiquated process encompassed in recalling batches of medications represent serious supply chain concerns for the pharmaceutical industry. Blockchain, the technology underpinning the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been touted as a possible solution and panacea for the pharmaceutical indu...

From an accountancy perspective, it is envisaged that certain traditional skills relating to accountancy will be eliminated or reduced (such as reconciliations or provenance assurance, for example). Blockchain transactions will enable new value- adding activities but while the range of extant skills required will change, this change need not be Byz...

Purpose Blockchain possesses the potential to disrupt and reshape a plethora of industries in the next decade. However, blockchain adoption rates in technology developed countries, such as Ireland, are relatively low. Motivated by blockchain’s potential to transform sociotechnical systems, the lack of systematic inquiry pertaining to blockchain stu...

My new book from NovoRay Publisher's entitled: "Blockchain: The Business Perspective" is now available to purchase on eBook format: https://novorayio.com/publications/

Modern enterprises are currently experiencing volatile and rapid information and communication technology (ICT) change. A key challenge for business leaders is to ensure their organisations are ready for that change. This is particularly challenging when it comes to emerging ICT that may disrupt the management of existing enterprise information sys...

People create innovations. Consequently, organisations must create environments to support them in their innovative endeavours. The ambidextrous organisation is essential to support human centred innovation and therefore it is imperative to ascertain what the key determinants are in terms of structure and architecture, context and culture and leade...

Book available to buy on Amazon: http://amzn.eu/d/i1ogXqa One facet of identity which is currently undergoing radical transformation due to technology and specifically social media is the concept of identity politics. Identity politics describes the manner with which people’s politics are crafted by aspects of their identity through loosely correl...

People create innovations. Consequently, organisations must create environments to support them in their innovative endeavours. The ambidextrous organisation is essential to support human centred innovation and therefore it is imperative to ascertain what the key determinants are in terms of structure and architecture, context and culture and leade...

There have been increased calls by academics to investigate the individuation of information systems (IS) which has largely gone unnoticed in the IS research discipline. Thus, we focus on an emergent category of analytics which we refer to as "enterprise personal analytics" which encompasses the concept of organizations enabling their employees to...

Information technology (IT) innovation is rapidly reshaping organisations, affecting fundamental aspects of their everyday business activities and processes. This development is accompanied by benefits as well as challenges. In this article, we focus on a specific distributed ledger IT called blockchain which has been heralded as possessing the cap...

Our aim is to motivate undergraduate students, in a supporting but assiduous environment, to engage in the craft of innovative and empirically rigorous academic research writing which is subsequently published and disseminated to a wider public audience. The NovoVerse eJournal project is nuanced in terms of involving a trifecta of specific stakehol...

Within a short couple of years, Blockchain and other trustless systems have turned from being relatively obscure technologies, which were only known to a small community of computer scientists and cryptologists, into mainstream phenomena that are seen as powerful game changers for many industries. Given the manifold potential applications of Blockc...

It has finally escaped the shadow of Bitcoin, but while blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies has been hailed as the technology of the future, questions linger: is this the next ubiquitous trend in computing, following virtualisation and the cloud, or is it, as critics, suggest, a solution in search of a prob...

Blockchain may be considered the latest and greatest technology but it seems that organisations in Ireland have yet to succumb to the hype. Research carried out at NUI Galway and Dr Trevor Clohessy shows adoption of the technology remains relatively low with just 40 per cent of Irish enterprises having embraced it to date. The findings have led t...

Research carried out at NUI Galway has found a 40% blockchain adoption rate among Irish enterprises to date. The study investigated why implementation in Ireland is relatively low, and proposes recommendations to increase blockchain awareness and adoption that can provide opportunities not only for economic growth but also create a new foundation f...

How should complex and dynamic software teams manage stability and instability? Contemporary information systems development (ISD) methods such as agile have been commonly cited as the answer to this question. However, there is evidence to suggest that these methods possess certain limitations which constrain their ability to effectively manage the...

Cloud computing is an example of a promising technological paradigm which possesses the potential to act as a catalyst to drive radical innovations in the development of the networked society. While some information and communication technology (ICT) providers have reaped the rewards by transitioning from antiquated hardware and service provision t...

Organizations have long used analytics to improve performance. Modern enterprise technological landscapes are being impacted by the increasing individuation of information systems (IS). One promising technological advancement in this regard will be the use of personal analytics within an enterprise setting. While traditional organizational intellig...

Cloud computing is an example of a promising technological paradigm which possesses the potential to act as a catalyst to drive radical innovations in the development of the networked society. While some information and communication technology (ICT) providers have reaped the rewards by transitioning from antiquated hardware and service provision t...

Enterprise Personal Analytics: The Next Frontier in Individual Information Systems Research examines an emergent category of personal analytics -- enterprise personal analytics -- that encompasses the concept of organizations enabling their employees to use their individual analytics to manage their digital working lives from descriptive, diagnosti...

Twitter is the latest social networking tool said to be reshaping presidential political campaigns. In order to maximize the influence of their messages to voters, presidential nominees often use various techniques to transmit their campaign messages in the most effective way to the electorate. However, there is little scholarship on the use of Twi...

Cloud-based digital transformation is having a profound impact on new and incumbent information technology service providers. In transitioning from traditional to cloud-based service provision, some IT service providers are experiencing substantial difficulties in realizing effective business models. Taking the perspective of 20 large business mode...

Modern enterprise technological landscapes are being impacted by the increasing individuation of information systems (IS). Consequently, the end-user computing phenomenon is being extended to incorporate a multitude of nascent possibilities for organizations. One promising avenue encompasses the use of business analytics. Common categories of enter...

The relationship between digital transformation and strategy formulation in the context of new digital technologies is emerging as a research area which is ripe for investigation. Recently, information system researchers have focused their attention on exploring this relationship in the context of cloud computing-based digital transformation. Howev...

The use of mobile health (mHealth) applications for incentivizing health behaviour change continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. This growth has been accelerated by recent advancements in ‘smart’ mobile technology such as cloud computing, internet of things, sensors, phones, tablets, wristbands and watches. Physicians and other health care...

The concept of a smart city has been identified as not only representing a crucible for technological innovation, a medium for realizing global integration but also as an exemplar response for addressing current and impending global issues (societal, environmental economic and governance). There is now general consensus that emerging information co...

In recent years Living Labs, which embody an open innovation milieu, have gained currency as representing a salient catalyst for Smart City research and development. However, the current body of Living Lab research, in conjunction with the fragmented isolated nature of existing Living Labs dispersed across the European Union (EU), indicate that a l...

This paper describes a research-in-progress that explores how the information technology (IT) governance mechanisms of Living Laboratories are associated with open innovation effectiveness. In recent years Living Labs, which embody an open innovation milieu and open innovation approach, have gained currency as representing a salient catalyst for Sm...

Cloud computing may offer a new architecture in fostering innovation. This paper describes salient issues in cloud computing capable of facilitating innovation in organisations. Focusing on the potential value to organisations of cloud computing, in this paper we outline particular aspects of contemporary concern to organisations innovating for com...