Don’t work hard, work SMART and What gets measured gets managed – just two of the pieces of advice handed out to businesses who attended a Lean Business information session which took place on Thursday 1st December in Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross
In 2014, Forfas carried out an independent review of Enterprise Ireland’s Lean Business offer and found that companies engaged in the programme recorded significant gains. These gains included Productivity up 20%; Sales up 40%; Delivery adherence up 43%; Product & Service quality up 30%; Employment up 11%.
The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation’s ‘Action Plan for Jobs, 2014, Second Progress Report identified the need to roll-out a Lean Start initiative to micro manufacturing firms. From this point Lean for micro and small business was designed to encourage clients to adopt Lean business principles in their organisations to increase competitiveness. The key to becoming and remaining competitive is Lean: the relentless pursuit of value to the customer.
Head of Enterprise John McEntegart explained what Lean is, “Lean is about being effective and efficient - doing things quicker, better, cheaper…together. Lean strives to stamp out waste and to continually improve” He also explained that Lean requires that individuals, teams and the entire organisation remain continuously focussed on the customer, adopting a practical approach to increasing value to the customer by the relentless elimination of every form of unnecessary waste”
Bláithín O Reilly from Monaghan Local Enterprise Office identified benefits of companies entering the Becoming Lean, Management Development Programme such as identifying issues and potential improvement areas, providing support to companies to implement and ensuring companies achieve savings and improvements.
Taking part in this programme with Monaghan LEO is a real opportunity to improve business operations in 2017. For further information on the programme and application forms go to www.localenterprise.ie/monaghan or contact Bláithín O Reilly on 047-71818
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