Lean Methodology CPD - Cork

Join us at The Metropole Hotel for a Lean Methodology workshop - a masterclass session with Prof. Richard Keegan of Trinity Business School

Attendance at this masterclass awards 4 Professional Development and Solicitor Wellbeing Points.

This session will explore how Lean principles can be applied within legal and professional services environments, with a particular focus on improving operational efficiency, workflow management, and organisational effectiveness.

Topics covered will include:

• Is Lean still relevant today?
• Introduction to the Principles, Rules, Tools and Questions of Lean
• “The Office – A Lean Case for Legal Businesses”
• The Five Rings of Lean Business Excellence

Participants will be issued with the case in advance and will be supplied with digital copies of:

• Becoming a Lean Service Business
• The Five Rings of Lean Business Excellence
• Toyota in Everyman Language

About Prof. Dr. Richard Keegan

Trinity Business School

Professor Dr. Richard Keegan BE, CEng(r), MComm, PhD, FIEI(r)
Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Northern Iowa
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Co-Operation – European advisor to the World Class Manufacturing Missions (ret.)

Prof. Keegan is a specialist in the areas of Lean, World Class Business, Operational Excellence and Benchmarking, advising major companies across Europe. While working with Enterprise Ireland, he developed and deployed the Lean Business Offer, supporting over 1,150 projects to help companies improve operational effectiveness. Many of the life sciences and pharmaceutical companies located in Ireland engaged with either the Lean Business Offer or participated in best practice visits to Toyota Deeside.

He worked for the last 3.5 years with the Welsh Government and Toyota introducing a tiered Lean approach to develop the competitiveness of Welsh companies. He has led best practice missions for over 2,000 managers to the Toyota Deeside engine plant, as well as leading a mission by An Taoiseach to Toyota Japan. He spent more than 20 years advising the World Class and Lean activities of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Co-Operation.

Publications include:

• Toyota in Everyman Language (2020)
• Digital Lean Transformation (2019)
• The Five Rings of Lean Business Excellence (2015)
• Lean Service (2015)
• Becoming a Lean Service Company (2014)
• Becoming Lean (2013)
• BUTT Seriously – First Time Out on the Iron Butt Rally (2008)
• Applied Benchmarking for Competitiveness (2004–2007 editions)
• Introduzione al Modello “World Class Manufacturing” (2003)
• The World Class Manufacturing Handbook (2000)
• Benchmarking FACTS – A European Perspective (1998)
• An Introduction to World Class Manufacturing (1997)
• World Class Manufacturing in an Irish Context (1995)

He has previously worked with DAF Trucks, Nokia, Nestlé and ESB, and outside of his professional work he enjoys long-distance motorcycle riding.