Lean Business Ireland Award Categories
This award is open to Micro indigenous Irish organisations and the Irish-based operation of multinational companies that have commenced on their Lean Journey and made sufficient progress to provide evidence of impact to customer value and experience, process improvement projects undertaken, and improvement to bottom-line results.
This award is open to Small indigenous Irish organisations and the Irish-based operation of multinational companies that have commenced on their Lean Journey and made sufficient progress to provide evidence of impact to customer value and experience, process improvement projects undertaken, and improvement to bottom-line results.
This award is open to Medium indigenous Irish organisations and the Irish-based operation of multinational companies that have developed and deployed a Lean Strategy for organisational excellence and enterprise excellence purposes, innovation, improvement, productivity enhancement, and overall transformation. In particular, entrants should have attained a level of maturity in Lean and Continuous Improvement and be able to demonstrate evidence of enterprise excellence across their value chains.
This award is open to Large indigenous Irish organisations and the Irish-based operation of multinational companies that have developed and deployed a Lean Strategy for organisational excellence and enterprise excellence purposes, innovation, improvement, productivity enhancement, and overall transformation. In particular, entrants should have attained a level of maturity in Lean and Continuous Improvement and be able to demonstrate evidence of enterprise excellence across their value chains.
This award is open to State organisations/agencies/units and Government departments that have developed and deployed a Lean Strategy for service-wide innovation, improvement, productivity enhancement, and overall transformation. Their Lean Strategy must encompass both the Socio (Lean Leadership, Employee Engagement, Behaviours, Organisational Culture) and the Technical (Operational Excellence Systems & Methods, Lean Tools & Techniques, Problem Solving, Process Improvement, Waste Reduction, Productivity Increases).
This award is open to indigenous Irish organisations; to the Irish-based operation of multinational companies; and to State agencies/units and Government departments that have taken a strategic approach to proactively and progressively improve their impact on the environment and contribute positively as corporate citizens. Entrants will have adopted green business principles to implement environmental and climate action best practices, and, where applicable, to increase competitiveness.
This award is open to indigenous Irish organisations; to the Irish-based operation of multinational companies; and to State agencies/units and Government departments that can demonstrate how they have been investing in their processes, people, and products/services to enable and sustain a more robust, resilient, agile, adaptable, fit-for-purpose, and next generation organisation and enterprise. The more organisation-wide, service-wide, and all-encompassing the investment being made, the higher the scores awarded. For smaller companies, evidence of incremental investment will suffice.
This award is open to indigenous Irish organisations; to the Irish-based operation of multinational companies; and to State agencies/units and Government departments that put forward an individual who has played a critical part in their Lean Journey. Judges will want to see the individual has embodied the requisite respect, team, and organisational loyalty and commitment, along with the essential focus, energy, and drive to enable and sustain the Lean and CI culture. Judges will want to see that the individual has voluntarily taken extraordinary interest in the adoption, implementation, and success of the Lean Strategy.
This award is open to Irish-based individual(s) and (primarily) Irish-based groups of authors or researchers who have contributed to the Lean and CI knowledge base. This contribution can be in the form of original Books, Case Study Books, or Academic Journal Papers.