Operational Excellence Solutions

Summary:

Coaching support to help Northern Ireland companies improve their competitive advantage by increasing their productivity and profitability.

Eligibility criteria:

Access to online resources, general advice and attendance at some workshops is available to all businesses in Northern Ireland.

The specialist advisory support is open to Invest Northern Ireland clients, which are manufacturing and/or tradeable services businesses with the potential to both:

  • achieve at least 25% of sales external to Northern Ireland (or at least £250,000 external sales, whichever is lower)
  • employ at least ten staff, within five years

If you can demonstrate that your business meets these criteria, you may be eligible to apply to become an Invest NI client.

Additional information:

Operational excellence coaches will work with your business to maximise your available resources so you can become more competitive, efficient, and effective – making the work easier, better, faster, and cheaper.

This is achieved through:

  • delivering workshop-based training, specialist advice, and best-practice events showing how to get the best out of available resources
  • identifying and facilitating productivity improvement opportunities and projects
  • supporting your business’s journey to embed a culture of continuous improvement

The focus will be on developing your internal capability to facilitate sustainable improvements, helping you integrate new concepts, tools and techniques that can significantly improve many areas of your business, including:

  • Waste identification and elimination to improve workflow.
  • Creating a visual workplace – visual displays, controls and management.
  • Daily management and leadership routines for continuous improvement.
  • Changeover and set-up time reduction.
  • Strategy development, deployment, and alignment.
Support organisation:
  • Invest Northern Ireland
Phone:
0800 181 4422
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