Lean Business Offer
Application for inclusion in
Directory of Approved Service Providers
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Date
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Lean Business Offer
Directory of Service Providers
1. Lean Business Offer in brief
Enterprise Ireland’s Lean Business Offer is a programme designed to encourage clients to adopt lean
business principles in their organisation to increase competitiveness. The programme is based on 3
levels of intensity as follows:
LeanStart: focus on value
This is a short in-company assignment delivered by an external business development consultant, which
will introduce lean principles and agile processes and complete a specific cost reduction project. This is
an assignment of up to 7 (in company) consultancy days, extending over 8 to 12 weeks.
LeanPlus: performance improvement
This is a medium-scale business process improvement project delivered by an external business
development consultant. It will result in sustained use by the company of Lean techniques and related
methodologies and will achieve significant measurable competitiveness gains. A LeanPlus assignment
will typically be not less than 6 months duration.
LeanTransform: business transformation
This is an extensive, holistic company transformation programme delivered by an external consultancy
team of international reputation. It will embed the culture and competences in the company necessary for
on-going competitiveness gains, sustainable continuous improvement and business transformation
across the business and its supply chain. LeanTransform assignments will be preceded by a diagnostic
evaluation and will typically extend for at least 1 year.
Programme availability
This programme is available to Enterprise Ireland clients subject to eligibility as determined by Enterprise
Ireland and depending on the client’s existing capability in using Lean business principles, the client size,
and their particular business development needs.
2. Directory of Service Providers in brief
The purpose of the directory is to assist Enterprise Ireland clients who wish to participate in the Lean
Business Offer to identify a service provider who can demonstrate the necessary expertise and
experience to carry out a LeanStart, LeanPlus or LeanTransform assignment.
Clients are wholly responsible for selecting a service provider.
The directory content submitted by service providers will be compiled and presented in two formats:
 a summary listing of service providers showing key word details (as submitted in part 1 of this
application)
 detailed profile documents with summary cvs (as submitted in part 2 of this application).
The directory is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of service providers capable of carrying out
assignments under the Lean Business Offer.
The directory will be publicly available and will be updated by Enterprise Ireland on a regular basis.
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3. Making application for inclusion in the Directory.
Service providers who wish to be included on the directory must demonstrate the following in their
application:
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a proven track record in providing business development consultancy services to business in
either the large and/or the small and medium enterprise (sme) sectors
experience in implementing and managing Lean programmes to achieve measurable
improvement in business competitiveness and efficiency
expert knowledge of Lean business systems and practices and recognised qualifications in this
area
experience in developing and embedding company capabilities and skills in Lean principles
effective methodologies for delivering Lean assignments
detailed sectoral knowledge and experience in one or more of the following business sectors:
o Food
o Manufacturing
o Services
o Software
the full-time resources and capacity to deliver prompt and professional responses to enquiries from
Enterprise Ireland clients and to successfully complete assignments for Enterprise Ireland clients
participating on the Lean programme.
a broad range of specialist business development and transformation skills as may be required
by client companies for the larger assignments.
In addition to the above applicants must
 Provide referees and or reference sites in respect of their application
 Complete a Tax Clearance declaration – (see section 2.15 of the application form).
Supporting documents in soft copy as follows are also required:
 Professional Indemnity Insurance incl. details of level of cover and the provider
 Evidence of recent 2 years turnover.
Enterprise Ireland reserves the right to check the accuracy of information provided and to remove content
which is inaccurate. A listing in the directory does not provide any guarantee of work. Funding support
will be set by Enterprise Ireland and will be based on the prevailing maximum daily rate for business
development consultancy services.
4. How to submit your completed application
Applications will be accepted in electronic format only.
Submit required documents to: lean@enterprise-ireland.com
Checklist of documents to be submitted:
1. Completed application in pdf format with the applicants signature
2. Completed application in word document format for ease of processing and transfer of
information to the directory.
3. Soft copies of the required supporting documents listed above.
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APPLICATION Part 1: Summary Profile & Keyword information
1.1
Company profile
Business
Name
Date
Established
Number of
Staff
Business
Locations
Contact person
Company
Web Address
Summary of business consultancy services - max. 25 words
1.2
Sector Experience
Under the following headings list by their commonly known name the sub-sectors in which you can
demonstrate a track record of implementing lean programmes:
Food
1.3
Manufacturing
Software
Services
Business Profile
Please estimate the approximate percentage of your business turnover derived from:
SME companies in
Ireland
Large companies in Ireland
International companies
outside Ireland
Lean projects capacity
Indicate the number of lean projects you have the capacity to complete per year:
(insert estimated numbers of projects or n/a [not applicable] as appropriate)
Approx. size of project
SME companies in
Large companies in
International
by no. of consultantIreland
Ireland
Companies outside
days
Ireland
< 10
10 - 50
50 - 100
> 100
1.4
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APPLICATION Part 2 Detailed Profile
2.01 APPLICANT NAME and CONTACT DETAILS
Business
Name
Business address
e-mail address
Tel. No.
Web Address
Main
Contact
Name
2.02
Job Title
BRIEF COMPANY PROFILE AND HISTORY (e.g. background, ownership, specialist areas, key business
sectors etc. Max 6 lines.)
2.03
SUMMARY of INDUSTRY SECTOR EXPERIENCE max 10 lines
Industry Sector
2.04
Summary of Business Experience
EXPERTISE & SKILLS IN LEAN BUSINESS AND SIMILAR TECHNIQUES (max 10 lines)
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2.07
Management Information
Systems
Environment / Sustainability
Logistics
Human Resources
Product / Service Development
Operations
Finance
Sales
FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Insert an X in the appropriate box(es) to show your expert functional experience.
Strategy
2.06
OTHER RELEVANT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT/TRANSFORMATION EXPERTISE (max 10 lines)
Marketing
2.05
STAFF PROFILE (nominate up to 4 key staff members whom you would use on Lean Business
assignments)
Staff name
Key specialist area or skill set
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2
3
4
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2.08
EXAMPLES OF LEAN BUSINESS ASSIGNMENTS COMPLETED IN LAST 3 YEARS
Cite: Company name or business activity, sector, size (no. employees & sales turnover), project
description and measurable outcome in summary form - max 7 examples, max total 40 lines)
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In the following 3 sections, outline how you would conduct a Lean assignment in terms of your approach
to winning initial company support and the appropriate methodology to achieving a successful outcome.
Complete only sections relating to the programmes for which you wish to provide services – i.e.
LeanStart, LeanPlus or LeanTransform.
2.09
OUTLINE HOW YOU WOULD CONDUCT AN INTRODUCTORY LEAN ASSIGNMENT SUCH AS
LEANSTART (max 25 lines)
2.10
OUTLINE HOW YOU WOULD CONDUCT A MEDIUM SCALE LEAN ASSIGNMENT SUCH AS
LEANPLUS (max 25 lines)
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2.11
2.12
2.13
OUTLINE HOW YOU WOULD CONDUCT AN ADVANCED LEAN ASSIGNMENT SUCH AS
LEANTRANSFORM (max 25 lines)
EXPERIENCE IN DELIVERING STAFF TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN LEAN METHODS / TOOLS
AND OTHER BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES
Cite up to 5 examples (max 10 lines).
OTHER RELEVANT DETAILS (max 100 words) – a personal statement.
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2.14
Names and contact details for 3 reference sites relevant to the above cited information whom
EI or EI clients may contact.
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2
3
Yes / No
I have obtained consent from the above named to act as reference sites
and or referees for this application
2.15
Tax Clearance - Self Declaration of Financial and Economic Capacity
Please confirm
YES/NO
Tax Clearance
(A) I confirm and declare having a current and valid Tax Clearance Certificate in
place and our tax affairs are in order.
Note: If ‘no’ you need to follow through on (C) below.
(B) Enterprise Ireland can verify your tax clearance status through Revenue’s
online facility at https://www.revenue.ie/itp/view.jsp. To this end, please
confirm:
Do you grant Enterprise Ireland permission to verify
your tax cleared position online?
Registration Number
(as shown in your Tax Clearance Certificate)
Certificate Number
(as shown in your Tax Clearance Certificate)
(C) I confirm that I have applied for a Tax Clearance Certificate from the Irish
Revenue Service which will be made available on request,
http://www.revenue.ie/en/business/running/tax-clearance.html / Non-Resident
applicants can download the TC1 - Application for Tax Clearance Certificate form
and apply for tax clearance to Non-Residents Unit, Collector-General's Office, Sarsfield
House, Francis Street, Limerick or by e-mail to nonrestaxclearance@revenue.ie
(D) I confirm that my Tax Clearance Certificate will be current & kept up to date
during my time on the Directory Of Approved Service Providers.
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2.16
DECLARATION
I have read and understand the directory guidelines and declare that the information I have submitted above
is true and accurate. I consent to Enterprise Ireland including the above information in the directory, to
maintaining the content of the directory, and checking the accuracy of information provided. I confirm that I
have obtained the consent of companies named above as reference sites or referees.
SIGNED
NAME
POSITION in COMPANY
DATE
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