Operational excellence solutions

We can help your business improve its resilience, agility and competitive advantage by improving your productivity and profitability. By addressing non value-adding activity and inefficiencies within business processes or supply chains, businesses can typically expect to see a productivity improvement of at least 25-30%.

A lean organisation understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously maximise it. The ultimate goal is to provide maximum value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste while creating a more agile and adaptable business. A popular misconception is that Lean is suited only for manufacturing, but that’s not the case.  Lean applies in every business and every process. It is not a tactic or a cost reduction programme but a way of thinking and acting for an entire organisation. To better understand Lean Thinking watch our Lean Thinking Tutorial.

We provide practical engagement across the entire enterprise from boardroom to shop-floor to improve and transform operations to drive quantifiable and sustainable benefits.  This approach helps businesses maximise their available resources to become more competitive, efficient and profitable, in other words making the work – Easier, Better, Faster, Cheaper.  

We Focus on developing capability within the business to facilitate sustainable improvements, depending on your needs our engagement can be through workshops, tutorials, case studies, best practice events and 1-1 mentoring and coaching.

Supply Chain Management improvement provides a focus on reducing waste in the supply chain and making the most of resources that is commercially essential in today’s competitive and changing market place.

Improving and maximising the capability and your supply chain is essential to business agility, resilience and profitability.

Our supply chain experts who have a wealth of business and commercial experience can support you by helping to identify key supply chain risks, cost savings and improvements to your supply chain.

Find out more about our Supply Chain Resilience and Development Framework (SCRDF).

We deliver a variety of workshops which can either be generic or bespoke (delivered on-site) depending on company needs.

Lean Fundamentals

This workshop provides attendees with insights on Lean principles, tools and techniques which have been developed by experienced industry practitioners. Using simulations and exercises the workshop will cover the practical application of the tools using a work based environment.

Lean for Services

This workshop provides participants with practical insights on how to apply Lean principles, tools and techniques within a service operation or support function.

Supply Chain Fundamentals

This workshop is designed to provide participants with practical insights on how to manage suppliers more effectively.

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)

This workshop introduces participants to the concepts and methods that lie behind Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) a system for dramatically reducing the time it takes to complete equipment changeovers.

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

This workshop introduces the concepts and methods that lie behind TPM. Using tried and tested methods, delegates will learn that TPM is much more than a maintenance technique and understand how it can become an organisation-wide improvement methodology.

Practical Problem Solving using the A3 approach

This workshop introduces delegates to the 8 steps involved in problem solving and supporting root cause analysis tools and techniques.

Daily Kaizen

This workshop is modelled on the Team Leader/Manager role as defined by best practice. The emphasis is on coaching, motivating the team and driving improvements through enhanced communication and engagement.

Leaders Kaizen

The workshop has been designed to assist senior leaders/decision makers in the organisation to implement daily continuous improvement as well as provide a framework to successfully develop, deploy and implement a business strategy that everyone is engaged with.

Lean CI Project Management

Based on the principles of effective project management, this workshop is focused primarily on their application against continuous improvement activities and projects and the creation of an effective Mission Control area using visual project management.

Kata Coaching

Kata are routines to develop good practice and behaviours.

Download our Operational Excellence Workshop brochure

These workshops are ideally suited for anyone with responsibility for driving improvements in their business. If you would like further information or would like to enquire about attending any of the workshops please email opexquery@investni.com.

These online tutorials and webinars cover a range of topics providing you with the tools to help improve your processes and grow your business.

Hear how Northern Ireland companies have transformed their businesses using lean thinking and created a culture for continuous improvement.