MEDIA INFORMATION 26 MARCH 2008
OEE ACHIEVES LEAN ACCREDITATION FROM CARDIFF BUSINESS SCHOOL’S LEAN ENTERPRISE RESEARCH CENTRE
Operations Management improvement specialist oee has been awarded Lean Training Accreditation from the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) at Cardiff Business School.
oee is one of the first organisations to pass LERC's strict accreditation system which has verified the training oee provides to its clients. oee ’s clients are leading manufacturing and service sector organisations, including Financial Services, and accreditation will enable oee to offer LERC’s Lean Competency System qualifications and individual accreditation to other organisations under an externally verified scheme.
oee’s Mark Palmer said: “Cardiff is one of the UK’s leading Business Schools and LERC is widely recognised as the UK’s leading centre for lean research. LERC’s research based expertise, coupled with oee ’s 10 years of unrivalled practical implementation experience of lean, provides us with an unequalled opportunity to help our client’s to achieve individual accreditation for their staff.”
The LERC accreditation programme is about practical delivery to allow clients to achieve real benefits in improved business performance from their business processes, assets and people. The certification process requires participants to demonstrate their application of learning, not merely the gaining of knowledge.
Organisations who follow the accreditation and certification system will be demonstrating their commitment to make Lean and continuous improvement the bedrock of their business operations.
One of oee ’s first clients to benefit from the company’s accreditation will be Skandia, a leading international long-term savings group that provides pensions, investment and protection products in the UK and overseas. oee has been working with Skandia for over 18 months helping to develop a lean operations
capability with the establishment of a lean leadership team. Skandia required a recognised, formal qualification to underpin its lean programme and to demonstrate the transferable nature of the skills that have been gained. The Skandia lean team have passed their written exams and completed the necessary training. They are now gathering portfolios of evidence and will be coached through the final stages of the programme by oee ahead of assessment to achieve final accreditation from Cardiff Business School.
Mark Palmer concluded: “Accreditation under this programme offers many benefits for clients. It will help them to formally embed and further build a body of recognised expertise within their operations that is externally validated. At the same time the rigour of this programme, and its backing by one of the leading
research institutions on lean, will underline to shareholders, and externally, the seriousness of the organisations commitment to operational excellence.”
Find out more about the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC).
