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Limerick
Cook Medical
O'Halloran Road,
National Technology Park,
Limerick |
Bill Doherty
Executive Vice President, Cook Medical |
Terry Landers
Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Ireland |
Winning the
Long Game |
In our globalised, hyper-competitive world, securing new rounds of investment is ever more challenging. Drawing on his own experience of mandate development in Digital Equipment Corporation, Ericsson and Microsoft, and across a range of functions from R&D to operation and services, terry will share his insights on
1. Understanding the Business landscape;
2. The corporate / subsidiary relationship;
3. Identifying Opportunity sweet spots
4. Mobilising allies:
Customers/partners, universities and other,
but especially staff
5. Defining & selling the new proposition |
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Microsoft is a leading software and computer technology firm. Employing 1,900, Microsoft's operations in Ireland include software development and testing, localisation, operations, finance, IT, HR and sales and marketing. |
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Ronan Fox-
Site Leader, Catalent Pharma Solutions |
OPEX ~
A survivors
toolkit |
These are extraordinary times and in such times, extraordinary people do extraordinary things. What is clear is that for the companies caught up in the gloom and doom, ordinary thinking and ordinary performance won’t be enough.
OPEX provides the toolset to do extraordinary things in the areas of cost, quality and service. OPEX increases the chances of your company surviving the recession and reaping the benefits of the upturn. Ronan illustrates his innovative approach to OPEX using real life examples from the world of Hi Tech, Pharma and Medical Devices. You can be confident that you will come away equipped and ready for the upturn. |
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Catalent is a leading provider of specialised packaging and printing services worldwide.. Catalent is currently expanding its Dublin operation to support the growth of its European Printed Components business. |
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Galway
Followed
by light
Lunch
Medtronic CardioVascular Galway
Parkmore Business Park West,
Galway
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Gerry Kilcommins
VP Global Vascular Operations & GM Galway Site, Medtronic Cardiovascular Galway |
John Bourke
Director of Finance, PepsiCo Ireland |
The PepsiCo
Ireland story |
PepsiCo Ireland commenced manufacturing soft drink concentrates 35 years ago. The number of countries sourced by the Cork plant increased gradually. It was realised that total dependence upon manufacturing did not hit the strategic sweet spot. Complementary added value business services across a range of functions were pursued with some success. |
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| PepsiCo is the world’s largest snack food and 2nd largest beverage company employing over 500 people at three locations in Cork. In 2007 the Irish operation became the Worldwide Concentrate headquarters within the PepsiCo. |
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Nick Maishman
Senior Director Operations Management Grange Castle, Wyeth Biotech |
Productivity improvement
through empolyee
engagement |
Our strategy is to sustain high performance as we transition from start-up to routine commercial supply. We have used employee engagement as the main lever for our operational excellence programme and will give examples of the productivity improvements achieved. |
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| Established in Ireland for over 30 years and with 3,000 people across five sites, Wyeth completed a €300 million expansion investment at its Newbridge site in 2007, placing it at the forefront of Wyeth’s development pipeline. |
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Dublin
9.30
to
12.30
Followed
by light
Lunch
Science Gallery
Pearse Street,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2 |
Lionel Alexander
Vice President & General Manager Printhead Operations ISB/IPG, Hewlett Packard (Manufacturing) Ltd & First Vice President, American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. |
Martin Conroy
Business Process Improvement Manager, Medtronic Vascular
Galway Ltd |
Using Lean
Sigma and
Strategy
Deployment to
Deliver Significant
business
Improvement
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Lean Sigma provides a compressive set of methods and tools to drive business process improvement. However, many Lean Sigma initiatives have not delivered on initial expectations. A key aspect in Lean Sigma deployment is how the various projects are aligned to the strategic plan, so that individual efforts can be measured against overall company results. This presentation reviews key aspects of business process improvement implementation and how the linking of key initiatives can lead to employee engagement and significant business improvement. |
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| Medtronic is the world’s largest medical technologies firm with locations in Dublin and Galway employing over 2,100. In Galway, Medtronic manufactures and has R&D responsibilities for a range of products for the Vascular Division. |
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Mary Howick
HR Director, Pramerica Systems Ireland Ltd |
Lean Principles
for Systems
Development |
To remain competitive in the current economic climate we need to increase productivity without any adverse impact on cost or quality.
This presentation examines how Pramerica are working to achieve this by integrating the Lean principles into the Software Development Lifecycle. |
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| Pramerica Systems Ireland Limited, employing 640, is a software development and contact centre subsidiary of U.S.-based Prudential Financial Inc. a financial services leader. Its Letterkenny facility is engaged in software development and service support for its US businesses. |
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Ciaran Ennis
Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs, IBM Ireland |
Over 50 years
of evolving
mandate |
IBM is a leading provider of advanced information technology, products, and services, with a long history in Ireland, having opened its first office in 1956. IBM Ireland has grown from 3
employees to over 3000. During that time Ireland and the IBM Corporation
have undergone significant change.
The presentation will cover how IBM
Ireland has attuned itself to that change and how it has ensured the the
value it delivers to the IBM business remains relevant. |
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| IBM Ireland has responsibilities for sales, marketing and services, and employs over 3,000 people, working across a broad range of businesses and locations. In June of this year IBM announced 100 new roles in Dublin, Cork and Galway, including new opportunities for technology graduates, in an investment of €25 million over the next three years. |
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Waterford
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Paul Duffy
Vice President of Manufacturing for Ireland and & Singapore, Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals & President of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland |
Teresa Marnane
European Customer Service and Tenders Manager, Cook Medical |
Expanding a
Mandate in
MedTech |
Cook Medical has expanded its mandate from limited manufacturing and distribution to gaining EMEA responsibility for a Shared Service Centre, accountable for strategy and policy development of all Service functions. Cook is using the successful innovations of its European Shared Service Centre as models to drive improvements in its global supply chain. |
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| Cook Medical is among the leaders in developing healthcare devices and is at the forefront of medical research. Established to manufacturer medical devices in Limerick in 1996, last year Cook announced that its Irish facility will be the sole producer of a new stent product. This €25 million investment will bring their total Irish workforce to almost 700. |
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Tony O'Halloran
Head of the Research Development and Innovation Centre, Bank of America Merrill Lynchh |
Moving
Towards
'Eureka' |
Innovation is more than the 'eureka' of discovery.
It's about continuously creating ideas and delivering them to clients. Speaker will address techniques to help foster a culture of innovation, including the strategy behind the creation of an innovation centre and new idea-capturing tools. |
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| Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s largest financial institutions. They have multiple locations across Ireland though a number of different business operations that include MBNA, LaSalle Global Trust Services and Merrill Lynch. |
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Letterkenny
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Henry McGarvey
Managing Director, Pramerica Systems Ireland Ltd |
Anthony Canavan
Business Development Manager, HP Manufacturing Ireland Ltd (alias DIMO - Dublin Inkjet Manufacturing Organisation) |
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The transformation of the HP Manufacturing Ireland facility from solely being a manufacturing entity to being a total business asset, by
- establishing an integrated value proposition across Marketing, R&D and Manufacturing
- taking WW business leadership for specific customer segments." |
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| Hewlett Packard is among the world’s largest technology companies and is one of the foremost multinational companies in Ireland, with over 4,000 people employed in Leixlip, Dublin, Galway and Belfast. It recently announced a major expansion of its Global Service Desk in Leixlip, adding 500 new positions. |
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Meliosa O’Caoimh
Chief Operating Officer, Ireland |
The Northern
Trust Success
Story |
Operational Excellence can be defined as “a philosophy of leadership, teamwork and problem solving resulting in continuous improvement throughout the organization by focusing on the needs of the customer, empowering employees, and optimizing existing activities in the process." This presentation will cover how Northern Trust as a Global Organisation successfully set-up an office in Limerick to be the Centre of Excellence for the Fund Administration Business. We will give you examples of the key initiatives we had and the huge gains we achieved with this great Limerick success story.
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| Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, and banking. Northern Trust has been in Dublin since 2000 and opened a second fund administration operation for Ireland in Limerick in 2007 together employing over 500 people. |
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Cork
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Paul Duffy
Vice President of Manufacturing for Ireland and & Singapore, Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals & President of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland |
Eamonn Sinnott
Fab 24 Plant Manager, Intel Ireland |
Intel’s Story |
In 2009, Intel will celebrate its twentieth year of operations in Ireland. From humble beginnings building circuit boards in a disused car dealership
in Palmerstown, Dublin to Ireland’s largest and most advanced industrial campus in Leixlip, Co. Kildare with greater than $7billion capital invested.
Intel in Ireland has developed its mandate successfully on it’s core business and is actively supporting partnerships with several innovative
new business initiatives. Eamonn will reflect on the important lessons learned during this journey and what strategic challenges lie ahead. |
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| Intel is the world's largest semiconductor chipmaker. Since 1989, Intel has invested over $7 billion and employs approximately 4,000 people at locations in Shannon and Leixlip. In 2009 its Leixlip campus was chosen as one of two new European R&D Hubs, while a major expansion of its R&D operation facility in Shannon was confirmed. |
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Daniel J. Hoey
Executive Director,
Commercialisation Operations
and General Manager,
Ballydine Plant
Merck Sharp and Dohme
(Ireland), Ltd. |
Lean Six Sigma
in
Commercialisation |
The presentation will cover the Lean Six Sigma
and Commercialisation model at work in
Merck
and Co., Inc., the impact this has had
on the Irish subsidiary as well as a specific case study on a
new product recently introduced using this strategy. |
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| Merck Sharp & Dohme is one of Ireland’s fastest growing human health companies, engaged in the manufacturer of bulk active pharmaceutical ingredients and the development of late stage clinical trial material at its facility in Tipperary. A new €220m vaccine and biologics facility is currently underway in Carlow. |
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