The Lean Practitioner Seminar Series brings together Lean and CI practitioners with the purpose of sharing experience, knowledge, expertise, and good practices. Such industry-academia and intra-industry collaboration has been hugely well-received as it enables those practicing lean in public and private organisations, and across all services and manufacturing sectors, to meet on a regular basis and exchange their applied knowledge and experiences with their industry peers. When educators engage with executives in facilitating their learning in lean principles and practice, it enhances the enthusiasm and passion for learning, and the willingness of practitioners to share their knowledge with others. The Lean Practitioner Seminar Series has been designed to harness these attributes and provide a regular mechanism wherein Lean and CI practitioners can engage with each other to deepen their understanding of lean concepts and approaches, and through dialogue heighten their knowledge of lean enterprise, operational, and process excellence.
A number of the Seminar presenters include our Lean & OpEx alumni or current students, some of whom are the Lean & OpEx champions within their own organisations, including global exemplars like Lake Region Medical, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland, and Genzyme – a Sanofi company.
The Lean Practitioner Seminar Series is hosted in WIT as a series of free monthly events during the academic year.
| DATE | PRESENTER NAMES | SEMINAR TOPICS |
| 13/1/14 | Christine Campbell, Pharma-Chemical Ireland (IBEC) | Lean Enabling Competitiveness |
| 13/1/14 | Dr Tom McCabe, Managing Director, Sordolas Ltd. | Lean Leadership |
| 13/1/14 | Bill Murphy, Senior Director of Finance, Sanofi Ireland | Lean Business Strategy |
| 13/1/14 | Andy Crowley, General Manager, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland | Managing Change & Sustainability |
| 20/11/14 | Terence Bates, Production Support Supervisor, Lake Region Medical | Regulating Flow in a Batch Environment |
| 5/2/15 | Pat Logan, Operational Excellence Site Leader, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland | Utilising TWI (Training Within Industry) Job Instruction Training to Deliver Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Sector |
| 11/3/15 | John Quirke, S A Partners | Overview of Shingo Enterprise Excellence and the Practical Application of Shingo Thinking within a Business |
| 28/10/15 | Mike Healy, General Manager, Nutriscience Ireland | Creating Actionable Data on your Organisation’s Seven Wastes |
| 18/11/15 | Deirdre Keating, Assistant Director of Clinical Services, Aut Even Hospital | Standardising Patient Care Using Lean Methodology |
| 9/12/15 | Sharon Moroney, Lean Consultant in Financial Services | Lean & Operational Excellence in Financial Services |
| 20/1/16 | Ian Gourlay, Lean Six Sigma Consultant, Rigney Dolphin/Relate Care | Lean & Operational Excellence in Contact Centres |
| 10/2/16 | John Mehigan, Operational Excellence Department, Lake Region Medical | Employee Engagement |
| 9/3/16 | Gerry Forristal, Quality Manager, Keltech | Operational Excellence in an Imperfect World: An Introduction to Factory Physics |
| 26/10/16 | Bill Stacey, Team Leader, Cartamundi | SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Dies) |
| 16/11/16 | Cathy Mullins, Lean Coach, Sanofi Ireland | Lean Coaching |
| 14/12/16 | Pat Mulvee, Industrial Engineer, Boston Scientific Clonmel | Value Stream Mapping |
| 18/1/17 | Aidan Clancy, Commercial Director, Clancy Homes | Lean Thinking in Construction |
| 15/2/17 | Pat Power, Engineering Manager, Keltech. | 5S – More than just “housekeeping” |
| 15/3/17 | Paul Broderick, General Manager, Pembroke Kilkenny | Enterprise Excellence in Hospitality |
| 18/10/17 | Joe Fitzgerald, Owner, Microfix, Idea Factory, Niggle.ie | Encouraging Employee Creativity |
| 13/12/17 | Seán Cooney, Head of Finance, Cartamundi & Dr Collette Kirwan, Lecturer in Accounting, WIT | Lean Accounting: Management Accounting in a Lean Environment |
| 17/1/18 | Paul Ebbs, Research Fellow, Centre for Lean Projects, Nottingham Trent University | The Business Case for Lean Capital Project Delivery |
| 14/2/18 | Joe O’Sullivan, Senior Maintenance Manager, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland | The Lean Maintenance Journey |
| 14/3/18 | Trevor Doherty, Associate Director of Operational Excellence/People Development, MSD Ireland, Carlow | The Power of Coaching |