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| NEGOTIATING TO WIN: 11th March 2010, Belfast This training workshop enables participants to self-discover the essential principles in Negotiating with Synergy. It is an ethical, principled, Win-Win negotiating process based on research from the Harvard Negotiating Project and the international best seller “Getting to YES” by Fisher and Ury. Click here for more >> |
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| 4TH ANNUAL LEAN SYMPOSIUM: 30th & 31st March, Clonmel This symposium is a highly interactive one which includes a half day workshop to assist manufacturing and service organisations implement and sustain Lean initiatives in the current global economic climate. Irish-based companies Shannon Aerospace, Green Isle Foods, Lake Region Medical and Bulmers will present on their lean experiences to date. Click here for more >> |
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| TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING EDUCATION: 6th - 9th April 2010, Dublin IBM and the IEEE are hosting an international conference on the role of cross-disciplinary instruction in preparing engineering graduates to meet the changing needs of employers. Click here for more >> |
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| SPC - STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL: 29th & 30th April 2010, Athlone This two-day course is facilitated by First Polymer Training in Athlone. Superior product quality and process performance is achieved by identifying and resolving the causes of the process variation. SPC is an essential tool for companies implementing ISO 9001, ISO 14001, QS 9000 and lean six sigma. Click here for more >> |
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| 6 SIGMA ON 30 ROCK For those of you who missed it first time round in Jan `09, have a giggle! Click here for more >> |
SERVICES
Cordatus services are built around our clients' needs to grow and sustain competitive advantage in their marketplaces. We partner with clients to assist them in focusing efforts for strategic gain, and setting performance objectives appropriate to their customer base, products, services, size and competitive needs. Our holistic service offering ranges from strategic planning with senior management, to tactical training with administartors and operators.
OUR DELIVERY STYLE
Skills and knowledge transfer are basic principles of our way of doing business. Our services portfolio include practical, structured methods for boosting organisation productivity, reducing the cost of operations, and growing revenue. Our integrated approach to learning includes, as appropriate, a combination of:
Soft copies of Cordatus training presentations are provided to clients for use within the clients' sites. This enables our clients to continue internal team training after Cordatus consultants have completed the initial training effort. It also provides clients with material for internal promotion and advertising of the improvement programme, corporate publications and general programme communication. Our holistic approach ensures that client companies to become self-sufficient in the skills covered in our workshops.
THE RESULTS - WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
Using the Lean and Six Sigma toolkit, Cordatus clients have enjoyed a wide variety of benefits including the following
External Customer Satisfaction:
Delivery performance increased from <80% to >95%, consistently;
Increased understanding of customer requirements;
Flexibility & agility in responding to customer requirements, and
Increased revenue from additional business.
Internal Customer Satisfaction:
Irish-based manufacturing plants outperforming sister plants worldwide, and
Several millions additional direct investment from corporate sources.
Organisation & Human Resource Development :
Several 100% improvements in productivity and output capacity with the same resources;
Improved teamwork, communication & problem solving skills;
Change management skills greatly improved at all levels, leading to....
Greatly enhanced confidence and development of a "we're up for it!" attitude across the organisation.Product Manufacture, Quality & Compliance:
Dramatically reduced manufacturing cycle time;
Elimination of customer order backlog;
Elimination of manufacturing backlog;
Elimination of batch record/QP approval backlog;
Reduced floor space requirment (20% - 80%);
Several hundred percent improvement in productivity and output capacity with the same resources, and
Happy customers, leading to more business!
Environmental Health & Safety
Reduced waste production;
Reduced energy consumption:
Reduced accident rate, and
Development of an 'accident free' culture
Financial Results:
Several €uro millions savings in annual operating expenses;
Reduction in cost of production per unit;
Reduction in overtime;
Ability to take on new business with little or no increase in investment, and
Several €millions additional direct investment from corporate sources.
REFERENCES: VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER
As lean consultants we take regular qualified and quantified evaluation of client satisfaction with our services. Please see sample client quantified feedback here. This evaluation is used as feedback to the Cordatus organisation to ensure improvement in our services, and establishment of best practice in our approach to programme design ans facilitating learning workshops.
We are also pleased to provide references from our clients on request. Please contact: Bernie Rushe, Managing Director, Cordatus, brushe@cordatus.ie tel: +353 91-870708 for further information.