The South East Lean Network helps public and private organisations from across all manufacturing and services sectors that have adopted or are adopting Lean Thinking & Practices to enable operational and enterprise excellence, and to sustain their competitiveness.

It facilitates knowledge exchange and networking via:

• good practice visits, gemba walks, and peer benchmarking, and
• the WIT Annual Lean Enterprise Excellence Forum and WIT Annual Lean Practitioner Seminar Series.

Please see below for further information on objectives and supports of the lean network

Upcoming events:

Seminars

• Wednesday 9th of October 2019
• Wednesday 6th of November 2019
• Wednesday 4th of December 2019
• Wednesday 15th of January 2020
• Wednesday 12th of February 2020: For more information click here.
• Wednesday 4th of March 2020

Conferences

• 8th Annual WIT Lean Enterprise Excellence Forum, Thursday the 30th of April 2020 at the WIT Arena. www.witleanforum.com

Objectives and Activities of the Lean Network:

• Acts as a network broker for inter-firm site visits for firms within the region, plus for firms from outside the region visiting firms within the region.
• Facilitates and brokers one-to-one, or one-to-many, focused mentoring and tutorial sessions.
• Provides a forum for industry stakeholder engagement and collaboration which informs programme and module development, plus research, within and from the WIT Academy of Lean Enterprise Excellence.
• Provides a forum for industry engagement and collaboration regarding course and service offerings involving Regional Skills Forum, Skillnets, Chambers of Commerce, and Education Training Boards.
• Facilitates alignment amongst and between all relevant stakeholders, including
  • Multinationals, SMEs, and Micro-Enterprises
  • Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, and Lean Business Ireland
  • Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs)
  • Education Training Boards (ETBs)
  • Regional Skills Forum
  • Skillnets
  • Chambers of Commerce
  • Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
  • Lean Service Providers (Trainers & Consultants)
  • Lean Construction Ireland (LCi)
  • Construction Industry Federation (CIF)
  • Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE)
  • Irish Business & Employers Confederation (IBEC)