Company Training Courses

Irish Lean Six Sigma Conference

We are holding the 1st Annual Irish Lean Six Sigma Conference on Wednesday March 21st 2012 at the RDS in Dublin. There will be a great line-up of speakers. Conference topics include: Lean Six Sigma in the 21st Century Designing a public sector for tomorrow: Developing a roadmap...

The Usual Suspects, Part 2

I wrote an original blog post a while back on unusual lean six sigma projects called the ‘Usual Suspects – Part 1’. This is the sequel, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Line Up Room! Typical lean six sigma projects focus on everyday process and metrics...

ISO 19011:2011, Guidelines for auditing management systems

At the end of last year ISO published an updated edition of the ISO 19011 auditing standard which aims to help organisations to save money, time and resources by providing a uniform approach to multiple management system audits. In today’s business environment, many organisatio...

The everyday use of the DMAIC – common sense can sometimes be … common!

In the Lean Six Sigma program the DMAIC (define, measure, analysis, improve, control) is deployed in conjunction with the Project to drive process improvement. In fact, Juran, the renowned quality guru said that breakthrough improvement (in the order of 50%) happens in no other w...

Some New Year cheer

When one reads news of the Irish economy, one can’t but sometimes get a little dispirited. That’s why we need to celebrate good news stories when we come across them. Well here’s a good news story. Food and drink exports from Ireland for 2011 are expected to rea...

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