Building a Better Business: Increase Efficiency, Reduce Costs & Increase Profits
This highly interactive workshop is Phase 1 of the LEO Building a Better Business program. During this hands on workshop, you will be introduce to a way of Thinking in your business, that has helped 100’s of Dublin businesses save time, money, and add value to their customers.
*Note: This is not a passive webinar, there will be breakout session and discussion, video on and participation is required from all attendees and is only open to Fingal Based Businesses.
In the last 2 years, 92 Dublin Businesses completed the Local Enterprise Building a Better Business with Lean Thinking Program reporting savings of €3,884,269. That’s an average of €50,445 per company and reported capacity increase of between 5% & 400% in their processes.
This program in open only to businesses trading longer than 6 months, with T/O in excess of €30,000.
What is the Building a Better Business program?
The program is about taking what you do in your business and finding ways to do it Faster, Better, and Together as a team. It’s about more than cash savings to small business owners though. For many it is about building a stable, secure, and sustainable business that is agile enough to face economic challenges. For many it is about liberating themselves from Non-Value adding activities through questioning and re-designing their processes, allowing them to focus on business growth and Value-Adding activities. For many, the program has given them the ability to get home on time, work less at the weekends, while still getting the work done. All these businesses achieved these outcomes by focusing on the elimination of waste from their processes, creating standards, implementing visual management, and by accepting that what has taken us this far in the business, may not take us where we want to go. Through the Building a Better Business Program, Jigsaw helps great businesses like yours BE BETTER!
Owners and managers of small businesses are invited to take part in Phase 1 of the Build a Better Business Programme. This highly successful programme will be of interest to any small business looking for ways to improve profits, efficiency, customer service and employee engagement by employing principles of LEAN Thinking and with a strong focus on teamwork to eliminate wasteful processes and ineffective procedures.
The hands on, facilitated workshop will be delivered by Stuart Nelson & Eamon McKenna of Jigsaw Better Business, introducing a new way of thinking, with discussion, breakouts and group activities. During the workshop you will also hear how the one to one guidance you will receive in Phase 2 can transform how you run your business for the better!
Is this program for you?
Of the 2000 business that have taken part in the program nationally these were the primary reasons:
- Increase competitiveness
- Improve delivery times
- Work faster
- Improve productivity
- Understand and reduce waste
- Improve data & admin processes
- Layout improvement
- Process and efficiency improvement
- Reduce congestion
- Streamline process
- Brexit
What happens after Phase 1?
Companies that take part in Phase 1 are invited to compete for a place in Phase 2*. Here, they will be assigned a Lean Coach that will work with them on a 1 -to -1 basis for 5 x ½ days. During this phase, companies will be supported to apply the learnings from Phase 1 and deliver a cost saving project or improvement like other participants before them.
*Phase 2 is a competitive process and a place in not guaranteed. It is significantly subsidised but a nominal programme fee of €250 will apply. In some cases it is possible to be approved for phase 2 in advance of this workshop.
Feedback for Dublin Companies
- “We are being challenged in every visit, and growing each time”
- “It’s hard work on our part but we are making great headway. Our Lean Coach is excellent at drawing out what way I need to look at how I work, and I’ve already started implementing everything and seeing progress.”
- “Very positive experience, The changes are being realised immediately.”
- “Each of the session have been of major benefit for myself and the company. We have worked on a process flow map for a major process within the business. This will allow the company to benefit for years to come as we can adopt this way of thinking into other functions and departments.”
- “We are incredibly happy with the work done. By implementing the new system and planning the data migration, we left the project with a tangible cloud based platform that completely changed our way of working.”
- “Since we took part in the program, there is a greater sense of calm and control in the running of the business!”
- “I am impressed by the collaborative and nuanced way the trainers and coaches promote the Lean process to a small business so that it is a learning we buy into rather than a diktat that you as experts know best.”
Video Testimonials
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We believe that by embracing this Better Business Program, your business can unlock its full potential and achieve sustainable growth in today’s costly and competitive landscape.
Places are limited - “when they are gone! they are gone” . If you are a micro enterprise in Dublin looking to take your first steps to Build a Better Business, this workshop is for you.
