A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, & captures value! Business models can best be described through nine basic building blocks that show the logic of how a company intends to make money. The nine blocks cover the four main areas of a business: customers, offer, infrastructure, and financial viability. ... Read more

In this seminar Joe O'Sullivan discusses the identification and implementation of a Lean Maintenance program. Although the application of lean tools, techniques and thinking has grown in popularity in organisations, there is limited information on how best to integrate lean thinking into an existing maintenance program. Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have created challenges ... Read more

The IrBEA National Bioenergy Conference (Bioenergy Future Ireland) is an event driven by the need for sustainability, growth and development within the Irish Bioenergy industry. This sector of the Irish Green Bioeconomy merits a symposium which recognises leadership and operational excellence in Irish Bioenergy. The theme of IrBEA’s National Conference is very much to develop ... Read more

The Mid-West Lean Network is now well established. It was set up to enable companies within the Mid-West region to learn about Lean, share best practice, improve their Lean undertakings and to facilitate member-to-member networking. We have learnt in the past year that many companies, particularly SMEs and the smaller micro enterprises, have not yet ... Read more