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City of St John’s Lean Green Belt Certificate Presentation

The City of St John’s is committed to advancing its core value of ‘continue to do things better’ and enhancing a culture of continuous improvement (CI). A key priority for the organization is to develop and embed a CI culture across the municipality. To this end, Leading Edge Group has been supporting the City over the past 12 months through providing continuous improvement training and strategic support. As well as upskilling management and staff and establishing a vision and road map for CI, we have provided advanced CI training for a number of employees to form a ‘Community of Practice’ with the ability to drive improvements across the organization. This training is at the Lean Green Belt level of certification and we are delighted to announce that the first cohort of candidates has completed with great success. Read More

LEAN for Micro Programme

We are delighted to announce that the Dublin City Council, Lean for Micro Programme cohorts are commencing for 2018. This programme is… Read More

Lean is the way to go in Pigs, and not just on the Plate

When you hear “Lean” and “Pigs” in the same sentence, it is natural to automatically think of the best cuts of pork. But in this case, it’s not about taking the fat out of streaky bacon, it’s applying the toolset and principles of Lean Manufacturing in an area where it hasn’t previously had much exposure in Ireland; the Pig Farming Industry. That’s what Leading Edge Group, amongst other companies, has been doing for the past couple of months. As part of a Bord Bia/ Teagasc/ Enterprise Ireland initiative, 30 of Irelands top pig farmers have been participating in a large scale feasibility study looking at the improvement’s that can be made to a farms operations and profitability by applying the well-established Lean Manufacturing tools and principles on Piggeries. As part of the project, consultant Barry O’Brien has worked closely with several clients, one of whom is Pat O’Keeffe of O’Keeffe Piggeries based in Ballylough, Mitchelstown, Cork, Ireland. Read More

Healthcare Systems in Ireland and Canada have a Lot in Common

Healthcare systems in Ireland and Canada have a lot in common. They both have mainly publicly funded access to healthcare with some private insurance being required for services such as prescription medication. Both countries have issues with long wait times for some elective surgical procedures and for admission to hospital through the emergency department. Read More

Beating Blue Monday

As if January isn’t bad enough, today, Monday, January 15th 2018, has been marked one of bleakest days of the year – the dreaded Blue Monday! While there is no strict science behind Blue Monday, it is acknowledged every year. With daylight hours still short, consistently bad weather along with the hangover of Christmas – financially and emotionally, still looming over all of us, it’s easy to see why the third Monday of the year is linked with lots of people feeling low. So, what can be done to battle the Blue Monday fears? Read More

Announcement – New Senior Consultant

Leading Edge Group is delighted to welcome our new Senior Consultant, Terry O'Hare. Terry is a Master Black Belt & Lean Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience in process engineering, product development, research & development and service delivery. He is a certified Master Black Belt, IASSC Black Belt and an approved IASSC Tutor/Trainer delivering IASSC Lean Six Sigma training to Black Belt level. He is also a Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner for Project Management. Read More