LEAN for Business Information Webinar
Date: Monday, March 3 2025
Time: 10am -11am
Increase Efficiency, Reduce Costs and Increase your profit with LEAN Thinking
LEAN Thinking is centred on the belief that waste exists in all processes and at the heart of any profit increasing project is to identify and eliminate that waste, leaving only value adding steps for our customers. Put simply, LEAN Thinking is about taking what you do successfully in your business, then finding ways to do it Faster, Better and Together with your team.
In the last 3 years, 129 Businesses from Cork & Kerry completed the Local Enterprise Building a Better Business with Lean Thinking Program reporting savings of €4,359,330 with an average reported capacity increase of 25% in their processes.
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!
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
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 subsidized but a nominal charge will apply. In some cases it is possible to be approved for phase 2 in advance of this workshop.
Feedback from Past Participants in the Lean Program
- “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.”
click here to register: https://www.localenterprise.ie/CorkNorthandWest/Training-Events/Online-Bookings/
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