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JULY 2010 COWEN BIDS TO DRUM UP BUSINESS IN NY: 13th July 2010
“The focus of all efforts must be the entrepreneur and enterprise,” Taoiseach Mr. Brian Cowen told a breakfast audience of some two dozen people at the New York stock exchange, on July 12th 2010. Over the next five years, the National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) and Enterprise Ireland are to provide €250 million for the scheme, which is intended to lure venture capital to Ireland. Venture capitalists are to provide the other €250 million. (Source: The Irish Times 13/07/10)
Click here for more >>TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT: 1st & 2nd September 2010, Limerick
This ICBE hosted event is for - those currently involved in large organizational change - those with expertise in management looking to increase their ability to manage “Resistance to Change” and - staff faced with Change who desire to respond to it with more than just ‘emotion’.
Click here for more >>POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT & MARKETING, DIT: September 2010, Dublin
Starting in September 2010, this new programme provides the opportunity for graduates in Engineering, Science, IT, Humanities, Law and other disciplines to experience an accelerated business studies programme over one calendar year of part-time studies leading to a Postgraduate Diploma.
Click here for more >>LEAN SIX SIGMA IN THE U.S. ARMY! (24 June 2010)
"The intent of LEAP (Lean Six Sigma Excellence Awards Program)is to recognize Army organizations and practitioners that have demonstrated excellence in Continuous Process Improvement and Lean Six Sigma capabilities," said David Reed IMCOM-Europe operations division. "The competition represents a great opportunity for garrisons to showcase their work."
Click here for more >>DYNAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: 19th October 2010, Dublin
The recent economic volatility has provided a fresh impetus in terms of building the necessary supply chain strategic capability in a proactive and focused manner. For this reason Logistics Ireland 2010 focuses on achieving supply chain alignment in building the capability necessary to succeed in this challenging environment.
Click here for more >>THE LAST BUSINESSMAN
What do you think of the IDA`s video promoting Ireland as a location for business? I`d like to see the Indian or Chinese version of this! This piece of cheese aside, the IDA website has some useful information videos that are worth a look.
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Lean Enterprise
"Lean Thinking is Lean because it provides a way to do more and more with less and less - less human effort, less equipment, less time, and less space - while coming closer and closer to providing customers with exactly what they want."
Lean Thinking, Womack & Jones
CORDATUS VIDEO - LEAN ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION
OUR ROLE AS LEAN TRANSFORMATION AGENTS
Cordatus consultants act as a transformation agents, assisting clients to understand lean manufacturing and lean services and to adapt lean principles and practices to their organisation. As a result customer satisfaction increases, business grows and the organisation becomes proactive, agile and innovative in meeting ever-changing market needs. We will support you through a complete lean enterprise implementation programme covering all 5 stages of Lean deployment:
Stages
1. Value
2. The Value
Stream3. Flow
4. Pull
5. Perfection
Activities
Why lean?
Consultant selection & engagement
Map the
value stream - current state & future state
Execute learning programme
Implement signal based replenishment systems
Implement lean design & develop problem solving competencies
Strategic plan review, lean programme outline & budget & resource agreement
Identify problems, prioritise & develop
improvement roadmapDevelop A3 sheets & execute projects, using DMAIC
Review projects & certify successful candidates
Establish new markets, new products, new services
Customer critical to quality attributes &
stakehoder analysisSelect people & match to projects on roadmap
Implement 5S & instill continuous improvement mentality
Communicate & celebtrate organisation success
Review customer critical to quality attributes
Commuincate lean objectives
Establish & communicate process performance metrics
Review progress & amend plan
Review progress & amend plan
Start again and re-define the new future state
THE LEAN TOOLBOX
The journey from current state to future state involves identifying and reducing waste in processes that deliver value to customers. Our Lean training programmes are custom-configured and paced to suit client needs, and to serve clients' customers' needs. Cordatus offers interactive case-study-based training in the following lean tools:
- Value Stream Mapping
- Takt Time
- The 7 Wastes
- 5S
- Kaizen events - planning & executing
- Error Proofing (Poka Yoke)
- Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
- Implementing pull systems/just-in-time/Kanban
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Statistical Process Control
- Total Poductive Maintenance
- Standard Work
- Team Building
- Takt Time
CERTIFIED LEAN LEARNING PROGRAMMES
The Kaizen facilitator
A kaizen facilitator is a proactive change agent within an organisation. He/she has a positive attitude towards change, good people and persuasion skills, and a knowledge of how to apply a basic range of lean tools to resolve process problems in a short period of time. The kaizen facilitator works as a part-time problem solving team facilitator, lending support to kaizen event leaders during focused problem solving activities, and assisting in embedding lean behaviours within the organisation. We recommend that any organisation striving for lean transformation, certifies 10% to 15% of its staff as kaizen facilitators. The attached kaizen facilitation workshops and certification guidelines provide an overview of the role, the learning effort and the certification criteria. We will be happy to assess your organisation and provide advice on a kaizen facilitation programme, people selection, process problem selection and certification guidelines.
The Lean Black Belt
The lean black belt is a highly skilled people manager and process problem solver. He/she exhibits the same personal characteristicas as the kaizen facilitator, however he/she is skilled to a higher level in team based problem solving, and is usually works full time as a lean change agent in the organisation. We recommend that any organisation striving for lean transformation, certifies 1% to 2% of its staff as lean black belts. The attached lean black belt workshops and certification guidelines provide an overview of the role, the learning effort and the certification criteria. We will be happy to assess your organisation and provide advice on a lean learning programme, people selection, process problem selection and certification guidelines.
Please contact us to discuss your lean requirements, we will be happy to provide guidance or answer any questions you may have.Please see also our six sigma and combined lean and six sigma learning programmes, and click on our services to gain an understanding of our holostic approach to learning.
- Value Stream Mapping