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OPERATIONS

Green

Environmental Best Practice – thinking with a green/environmental lens Adopting sustainable business practices and thinking with a green/environmental lens will enable organizations to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce costs and increase access to...

Lean

Lean Thinking – Operations and Business Management Best Practice Lean is a management system to maximize customer value while minimizing waste, a system to drive continuous improvements and efficiencies that utilise less time, effort and resources thereby giving...

Improving

Improving the operations capabilities Even the best organizations need to improve and develop, partly because customer’s expectations are likely to increase and partly because business competitor’s will also be improving. If you are not improving, you can be sure your...

Planning and Controlling

Planning and controlling ongoing operations The shaping of an operation should provide the nature and shape of the transforming resources that can satisfy a customer’s requests. Products and services then have to be created and delivered to customers. This is done by...

Shaping

Shaping processes, products and services Here we look at how the resources and processes of operations are shaped and designed. By this we mean how the overall shape and arrangement of transforming resources (people and equipment) impact the flow. Process Design: How...

Steering

Steering operations and processes An overview of the fundamental activities and decisions that shape the overall direction and strategy of the operations function – setting its purpose. Operations Strategy: How the activities of the Operations function can have an...

The 5 Whys – Lean Problem Solving

Are you solving the problem or the symptom of the problem? Taken from the online course Introduction to Problem Solving on Lean.org   Back to...

Structured Energy Management System

Under Enterprise Ireland’s Business Process Improvement Grants, client companies can apply for funding towards the cost of undertaking a GreenPlus training assignment. Assignments are designed to assist company managers to develop a high level of environmental...