Noel HennesseyPractical Lean Solutions

Noel Hennessey, DBA, MSc Lean Operations

Recognised Expertise in Lean Manufacturing and Employee Engagement.

Noel Hennessey is the founder and director of Practical Lean Solutions, and has over 20 years’ experience of implementing Continuous Improvement programmes. Noel, in his role as Enterprise Excellence Director at his former employer Lake Region Medical – an Integer company, led the company to achieve Shingo Bronze Medallion status in 2012 – the first medical device manufacturer in Europe to attain Shingo accreditation – and this was successfully attained again in 2015. Prior to that Noel held leadership roles with a number of other multi-national organisations.

The Benefits of Continuous Improvement

The fundamental reason that companies implement continuous improvement is to improve their performance, create a competitive advantage, and increase profitability

Continuous Improvement

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The fundamental reason that companies implement continuous improvement is to improve their performance, create a competitive advantage, and increase profitability.
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Organisational Improvement

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The ability of CI programs to deliver a more effective operating system through lowering costs, and improving performance and quality is a well-established fact.
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Employee Benefits

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In the modern workplace enlightened leaders understand that when it comes to implementing sustainable improvement the real “experts” are the people who are doing the work day in day out.
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Tactical Development of Lean Manufacturing & Employee Engagement Strategies

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At Practical Lean Solutions, experience has taught us the reason that nine out of ten continuous improvement initiatives fail, or the benefits are not sustained, is due to human rather than technical issues. Put simply, the best ideas in the world are worthless if employees fail to embrace them. The fact that most organisations view continuous improvement implementation as a technical function serves only to compound the problem.

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The ability of Continuous Improvement programs to deliver a more effective operating system through lowering costs, and improving performance and quality is a well-established fact.  In their review of CI, Zangwill and Kantor (1998) reference a number of improvement results which bear testimony to the power of CI. These include examples of increases in productivity of up to 100% without any major capital investment, and reductions in manufacturing cycle time by a factor of 20.