Higher Diploma in Business in Operational Excellence هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

The IIE Manufacturing and Engineering Skillnet is delighted to present this new Level 8 (Honours Degree equivalent) programme co-developed with, and delivered by, the Waterford

Institute of Technology School of Business.

The Higher Diploma in Business in Operational Excellence is a one year Level 8 programme specifically developed to meet identified industry needs. Participants will gain a wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and best practices from the blended learning approach, whilst the project management component embeds the practical application of the learnings attained for immediate impact in the workplace.

Who Should Do This Programme?

This programme is aimed at individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines who require a deeper understanding of Operational Excellence, Lean Transformations, and Project Management. This programme enables participants develop their potential as team leads, supervisors, technical leaders, and managers. It also provides the foundations to enable those wishing to integrate Operational Excellence and Lean into areas such as Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Human Resources, or Finance.

Applicants may wish to undertake this programme to aid their personal development into leadership roles from team leads, supervisors, technical leaders, or management. Applications are invited from candidates on a Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) basis wherein a candidate’s accredited (formal education qualifications, etc.) and/or unaccredited (work experience, etc.) will be considered when assessing applications.

Programme Aims

This high-quality, innovative, and applied programme satisfies the needs of industry, and it

aims to:

• Instil knowledge in operational excellence and lean philosophy; and provide critical insight into its practice in manufacturing, services, and management across a wide range oorganisational and sectoral contexts
• Provide a broad base of skills and knowledge to advance the application of operational excellence principles
• Advance creative thinking and innovation skills to enable a cross-functional, silo-free perspective
• Enhance communication and leadership skills to add value in adopting improvement strategies
• Provide knowledge, tools, and techniques to enable the design, delivery, and evaluation of continuous improvement projects
• Develop high levels of proficiency in project management skills and practice

Minimum Entry Requirements

The minimum entry requirements for candidates to be accepted on the programme include the following: Applicants should ideally have a minimum Level 7 qualification, in any discipline,

• along with a minimum of 3 years’ relevant industry experience; and where applicants do not have a previous Level 7 qualification they will be considered on the basis of an RPL application to a Level 7 standard or equivalent provided they have a minimum of 5 years’ relevant industry experience.
• Applicants should ideally be in employment in an organisation willing to participate with this programme, and which proposes the applicant for inclusion on the programme.
• Applicants who are not in employment at the time of registering on the programme must self-secure an organisation that will provide the applicant with a continuous improvement project to meet the requirements of the project management modules.
• Applicants must have an organisational-based continuous improvement project tohand to meet the requirements of the project management modules.
• Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to have a minimum 6.0 IELTS or TOEFL iBT 80 (minimum of IELTS 5.0/TOEFL 15 in each
• band); or an overall pass in the Certificate in English for Academic Study or in the Certificate in Academic English.