The world in 2018 is at a critical juncture regarding many relevant issues including climate change, global access to clean water, the rise of antibiotic resistant microorganisms and concomitant socioeconomic issues. This year’s colloquium overarching theme of "Arriving at a Sustainable Future" should stimulate lively discussion. For many years we have envisaged a sustainable future, however it ... Read more
This intensive half-day briefing is suitable for anyone who needs to learn the essential skills of managing their time effectively and optimising their personal effectiveness. You will learn how to organise your workflow, how to prioritise and how to delegate when appropriate. It is a practical course where the skills and techniques learned on the ... Read more
This course provides a deep-dive into the core agile and Scrum topics, and includes classroom type training, interactive exercises and simulations, sample exam questions and in-depth discussions with experienced Scrum practitioners/trainers. Covering all material required for the PSM™ Level 1 certification from scrum.org, and much more besides, this course will give you the knowledge needed ... Read more
In collaboration with NSAI, the Lean & Green Skillnet are offering a one-day workshop for the new ISO20400 standard in Sustainable Procurement. Whether its sustainable purchasing, responsible purchasing or sustainable procurement, who does not want their purchasing practices to be sustainable anyway? A new standard developed, ISO 20400, Sustainable Procurement – Guidance. This one-day programme ... Read more
The Mid-West Lean Network: the second largest regional lean network in Ireland, after Waterford Institute of Technology’s Lean Enterprise Excellence Group, launched in November, was set up to strengthen and increase the existing culture of lean within the Shannon and the wider Mid-West region. Its aim is to enable each industry to broaden and strengthen ... Read more
International Standards make things work! Providing world-class specifications for products, services and systems, to ensure quality, safety and efficiency. They are instrumental in facilitating international trade. Developing this unique event for over 3 years, ISO Ireland 2018 will look at a combination of four symbiotic ISO standards, including; 9001, 14001, 45001 & 50001. This multi-stream ... Read more
Improve Your Farm Returns with Smart Farming! Come to a free Smart Farming Seminar to find out how you could make savings of up to €5,000 on your farm, while reducing your farm emissions! 1.45pm Registration 2.00pm Smart Farming – delivering cost savings & improving the environment, Joe Healy, IFA President 2.25pm Growing success sustainably, ... Read more
Hardcore Soft-Skills that Get Results! with Michael Luke Collins - Michael Luke Collins Consulting Overview Do you think that you could do better in your business, and do you know the skills you need to achieve this? Have you the business-critical knowledge that will help you to grow your business? This BIIN workshop with Michael ... Read more
A Lean best practice site visit to Phonovation is scheduled for Thursday 12th April 2018. This is part of a series of lean (in Ireland) best practice visits planned during the year. Please follow the registration link below if you are interested in attending. The capacity for the visit is limited. A maximum of 4 ... Read more
The North East Lean Network is bringing businesses together to share and learn on lean, operational excellence, innovation and sustainability. The network is staging their first best practice site visit to McAree Engineering on Thursday, April 12th. Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, will be in attendance as a special guest for ... Read more
This free webinar will introduce attendees to the concept of embodied carbon calculation in buildings, Environmental Product Declarations, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing, and how this can be linked to Building Information Modelling. The Irish Green Building Council has launched an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) programme as a first step towards mainstreaming the ... Read more
If your organisation is using agile practices in projects, or is considering adopting agile approaches to project management, the PMI-ACP® certification may be right for you. The PMI-ACP encompasses knowledge of agile principles, practices and tools and techniques across agile methodologies. It is intended for individuals who want to - Demonstrate to employers their level ... Read more
Management today is faced with the challenge of meeting market requirements with limited resources, often under very challenging timelines. Lean methods and practices are seen as being central to helping companies in all sectors to address these challenges. Toyota is widely regarded as being at the forefront of Lean Process development. Enterprise Ireland has secured ... Read more
As part of their mission to help organisations with their Lean journeys, the Lean Enterprise Academy is holding its annual UK Lean Summit at MacDonald Manchester Hotel & Spa, UK. Highlights of the summit include: - Tuesday 17th April - there are 3 great Pre-Summit Masterclasses for you to attend. - Friday April 20th - ... Read more
safefood in partnership with Teagasc are hosting free workshops specifically for SME food business and those working within the wider food sector providing practical advice on how to produce and handle food safely. Our experts will be there to address all your burning food safety questions. The workshop will cover: - What you need to ... Read more
Lean Construction Ireland (LCi) and Kirby Group Engineering are delighted to invite you to attend the upcoming LCi Community Event at the Irish Management Institute, Sandyford Road, Dublin 16, on Tuesday the 17th of April, 2018. The theme of the event is "How Leadership and Strategy are Key to Overcoming Challenges of Lean Adoption", and ... Read more
This course is designed for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs (product owners, project managers, marketing and sales). It provides an excellent introduction into Lean and Lean Startup concepts to help you identify wastes and opportunities and to learn when to pivot or persevere using innovation accounting and actionable, accessible and auditable metrics. It is designed to teach ... Read more
Ireland's leading business energy event returns in 2018. The SEAI Energy Show is essential if you work in, or have an interest in, sustainable energy. A Business only Sustainable Energy Event Network, learn, test, and grow! The SEAI Energy Show has lots on offer for all types of business visitors and exhibitors. Find out what's ... Read more
safefood in partnership with Teagasc are hosting free workshops specifically for SME food business and those working within the wider food sector providing practical advice on how to produce and handle food safely. Our experts will be there to address all your burning food safety questions. The workshop will cover: – What you need to ... Read more
This 2 part-program will give you the skills and confidence to use the Lean and Six Sigma tools to improve processes and drive out waste in your organisation. You'll also learn the essential faciliation skills you'll need to run highly successful Lean Six Sigma projects. The first part of this program is an intensive, highly interactive ... Read more
West/North West Lean Network are an industry led business network from the West & North West of Ireland linked with 3rd level Academic Institutions and Chambers of Commerce. Their Mission is to promote Lean methodologies across all sectors and to share ideas that foster competitiveness for success. During 2018 they will invite representatives from business ... Read more
A breakfast introduction and case study about applying Lean in the Not for Profit Sector. All Non-Profit Organisations will of course be lean, but there is a world of difference between being frugal and applying the lean methodology. Being lean goes far beyond cost-cutting, however. The lean process enables organizations to speed up, be more ... Read more
We are a community led, non-profit conference, comprised of volunteers from our local Agile meetups and user groups, dedicated to spreading learning in Agile. As a conference, our goal is to help spread knowledge for Agile/Lean Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Leaders and Developers. On Thursday, April 26th 2018, our community will take over Croke ... 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. The Mid-West Lean Network: the second largest regional lean network in Ireland, after Waterford Institute of Technology’s Lean Enterprise Excellence ... Read more
With the importance of sustainable approaches continuing to increase, the meat industry needs to continue their focus on optimisation along the production chain. One route to such optimisation involves maximising value within current commercial applications as well as the exploration of novel value-oriented applications. Capitalising on value driven applications for meat processing derived products (including ... Read more
The conference will introduce organisational approaches to enterprise excellence in a multitude of service and industry related organisations. Unlike standard conferences of this nature that outline organisation improvement initiatives, the JEEC conference will introduce applications from on the ground practitioners. By outlining the strategies and structures for excellence the speakers will introduce real life examples ... Read more
The Irish National Contact Point invites you to join us for the 2018 Irish LIFE Information Day which will be held on the 27 April 2018. On the day visitors wil find out: -If LIFE funding could help deliver environmental/climate action objectives -What types of projects have got funding from the LIFE Programme? -How to obtain LIFE funding ... Read more
ISO27001 Ireland is an event driven by the need for data/information security within Irish business, Data Centres, Government Bodies, Financial Institutions and all organisations controlling the flow of information through their infrastructure. The event is specifically designed to encourage networking and open discussion between keynote speakers who have achieved the standard and our audience of ... Read more
Annual WIT Lean Enterprise Excellence Forum – a core element of the wider Lean Business Ireland community of learning and practice. This industry-academia conference focuses on best practices and cutting-edge developments in lean enterprise, operational, and process excellence; lean thinking and practices; and continuous improvement. It will be of interest to organisations of all sizes ... Read more
Lean thinking is an approach to employee management, process management and workplace organisation that increases market share through superior customer satisfaction. At the same time costs are reduced as employees seek to continuously make shorter, simpler and safer the processes that deliver value to customers. However, identifying the practical steps that will bring about this ... Read more
In this new format event in 2018, IRDG will bring you all the options when it comes to progressing your business innovation and market development with grant funding, tax incentives, accessible loans and research expertise from within Ireland and Europe. Supports including research capability, subject matter expertise, specialised equipment and finance are available to indigenous ... Read more
ICBE - Best Practice Visit to Boston Scientific Cork Cost: Member cost €100 per person (to be donated to local charity) Non- member cost will be €100 towards the charity of choice for the hosting company and €145 administration costs to ICBE. *(To discuss membership of ICBE and review the list of benefits to your ... Read more