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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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Supply Chain Management
DELL'S SUPPLY CHAIN EFFECTIVENESS
WORLD CLASS SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTING
As fomer senior strategy and planning manager at Dell in Limerick, and holding a first class honours master's degree in supply chain management, Bernie Rushe of Cordatus is well qualified to analyse your organisation's supply chain issues and make recommendadtions on supply chain improvements. Development of a lean supply chain for your organisation is pivotal in the improvement of product and service delivery to customers. Our "7 Keys" interactive workshop series is designed to strengthen your supply chain effectiveness, and can be facilitated on a modular basis, to allow for change implementation and evaluation between modules.
THE SEVEN KEYS TO SUPPLY CHAIN SUCCESS
This series of 7 one-day workshops targets senior and middle management who require a fundamental grounding in best practice supply chain principles. The workshops enable participants to make decisions which lead to inventory reduction, reduced scrap rates, improved supplier performance and most importantly improved service to customers. The workshops also enable candidates to work effectively in cross functional supply chain improvement teams.
Modules1. The Environment - external & internal opportunities
2. The Lean Supply Chain
3. The Supplier as Partner
4. The Customer as Partner
5. Workforce Training
6. IT - the Enabler
7. OutsourcingThe workshops can be condensed or expanded to accommodate clients needs in specific areas. For further details please contact Bernie Rushe at brushe@cordatus.ie, +353 91 870708.