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About the Operational Excellence Solutions programme
Our Operational Excellence Solutions support can help your business develop competitive advantage by facilitating improvements to productivity and, in turn, profitability. Operational excellence can be applied in businesses of all sizes across all sectors.
Typically, our support aims to reduce non-essential work in the business by up to 25%.
This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
What benefits does the Operational Excellence Solutions programme offer?
Our Operational excellence coaches will work with your business to maximise your available resources so you can become more competitive, efficient, and effective – making the work easier, better, faster, and cheaper.
We do this through:
- Delivering workshop-based training, specialist advice, and best-practice events showing how to get the best out of available resources
- Identifying and facilitating productivity improvement opportunities and projects
- Supporting your business’s journey to embed a culture of continuous improvement
We focus on developing your internal capability to facilitate sustainable improvements, helping you integrate new concepts, tools and techniques that can significantly improve many areas of your business.
These include:
- Waste identification and elimination to improve workflow
- Creating a visual workplace – visual displays, controls and management
- Daily management and leadership routines for continuous improvement
- Changeover & set-up time reduction
- Strategy development, deployment, and alignment
An independent evaluation of our operational excellence support calculated that for every £1 invested, we delivered £17 in benefits to your business.
Am I eligible for Operational Excellence Solutions?
The specialist advisory support for Operational Excellence Solutions is only available to Invest Northern Ireland clients. If you would like more information on becoming a client, see how we support business.
Access to our online resources, general advice and attendance at some workshops is available to any business in Northern Ireland.
Businesses owned by Invest NI staff members are not eligible for support.
Operational Excellence tutorials
Our Operational Excellence video tutorial series can help you on your operational excellence / lean journey.
Topics include introduction to lean thinking, a range of lean techniques and tools including practical problem solving, daily management routines, plant layout and more.
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Edwina Flynn, CEO of Wood Innovations, explains how Invest NI's Operational Excellence support enabled the company to enhance efficiencies and streamline operations.
Contact us
If you are interested in Operational Excellence Solutions support, contact our Business Support Team on 0800 181 4422 or complete the enquiry form.