The South East Local Enterprise Office's in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland are offering clients the opportunity to adopt Lean business principles in their organisation to increase performance and competitiveness.

Lean tools and techniques are helping companies across the globe to address competitiveness issues within their businesses, building the capability of their people to identify issues and improve their operations, increasing capacity as they improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Lean is shorthand for focusing on effectiveness and efficiency across all areas of a business. Lean works most effectively where it has become the way of doing business, where it is a fundamental part of the business strategy and not just “using some tools”.

A free business information session has been designed in order to allow clients to find out more about the programme but also to talk to LEO Executives, previous participant companies and Enterprise Ireland staff in respect of the programmes and its benefits to your company.

The agenda is as follows:

9.30am    Registration / Tea / Coffee

10.00am   Welcome & Introduction to Lean for Micro    Kieran Comerford  - Local Enterprise Office (Carlow)

10.20am   Lean for Micro Pilot Benefits    Robert Hernan – Enterprise Ireland

10.40am   SME Case Study: Florrie Purcell of the Scullery

11.15am   Examples of Lean Cases: Burnside Eurocyl & Dawn Meats

12.30am   Q & A

1.00pm    Close & Light Lunch

To Book e-mail enterprise@carlowcoco.ie or call 059/9129783

Programme Overview

• 5 days consultancy from a Lean Expert (Qualified Practitioner) from EI approved lean consultants.
• Client/consultant agree and carry out assignment
• Introduce Lean principles
• Complete a specific cost reduction project
• Benchmarking
• Incorporate First Steps to Green Competitiveness