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These programmes are designed to develop the skills of participants who are undertaking a Lean Transform or Operational Excellence Training.

Please inform Enterprise Ireland at Lean@enterprise-ireland.com of any issue which might affect the progress or outcome of the project

Lean Transform is a large scale, extensive and holistic company transformation programme delivered by an external training team of international reputation.

LEAN alati i tehnike pomažu tvrtkama širom svijeta da se bave pitanjima konkurentnosti unutar svojih tvrtki, izgradnjom sposobnosti svojih ljudi da identificiraju probleme i poboljšaju svoje poslovanje.

Much research in Operations focuses at the company or group level. This paper presents an insight into an ongoing Action Research project conducted at the level of analysis of a country – Ireland.

The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a new framework for continuous improvement. The literature review on customer value and strategic quality provides the basis for the identification of a conceptual framework for continuous improvement. This conceptual framework is validated using the in-depth interview and the survey approach.

The Lean Business Offer (LBO) is a three tiered programme delivered by Enterprise Ireland (EI) to help firms to improve their operations-based competitiveness. EI is the State body charged with the support and development of indigenous industry, and of multi-national corporations using natural resources. To date, 823 firms have participated in the LBO programme supported by EI. Earlier analysis of the broad

Ireland is a small island nation, located on the Western periphery of Europe. Our closest neighbour and largest trading partner is the United Kingdom. Our economy is based on an “Open” business model where we have organised ourselves to be export led. Per capita of population Ireland is one of the leading global export economies.