Finbarr McCarthy

Background

About Finbarr McCarthy

Finbarr has the experience and expertise to help businesses leverage technology to deliver competitive advantage. He helps businesses avoid common mistakes such as automating existing processes without taking the strategic objectives of the business into account, or recognising the opportunities that may arise from the implementation of new systems. When retained to review the use of ICT within businesses, he has often witnessed first hand how automating poor processes has led to poor outcomes, staff dissatisfaction with the technology used, missed revenue opportunities, cost overruns, and higher than necessary running costs. Fortunately, he can turn many of these situations around by working with all of the stakeholders to devise ways to correct the issues without major spend. Finbarr has significant expertise in aligning technology with current and future business needs. This involves working at executive level to understand strategic goals, objectives and the metrics required to measure success. Only then does he review existing processes to see if they can be streamlined, following which the system requirements are documented, solutions selected or developed, and then implemented. He is also a guest entrepreneur, speaking about the entrepreneurial journey in universities and third level colleges such as Maynooth University, University College Cork, University College Dublin, Blackstone LaunchPad UCC, Trinity College and CIT.