About

Patrick Burke

Founder and Director

Patrick is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Motorola & IASSC) a PMP (Project Management Professional) and an Agile Scrum trainer. He studied at NIHE Limerick (now UL) and graduated with a B.Eng Electronics. He also has a post-graduate diploma in Statistics & Quality Control (Trinity College Dublin) and a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering (UCD). He has worked in a variety of engineering and management roles over a 30-year career in Manufacturing. Since 2012, he has worked with various organisations (profit, not-for-profit and public sector) providing a range of services to support organisational development. Since 2013 he has lectured part-time in operations, supply chain, and project management, at UCD Belfield and Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Blackrock, He has also travelled extensively to Singapore and Hong Kong to support UCD-accredited diploma and degree programmes as lecturer and module co-ordinator.


The PDCA mentality informs how we engage with clients. We encourage a culture of learning and seek to build successful outcomes using data rather than opinions and observations rather than assumptions.

PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) is an iterative, four-stage approach for continually improving processes, products or services, and for resolving problems.

The PDCA Cycle provides a simple and effective approach for solving problems and managing change. It enables organisations to develop hypotheses about what needs to change, test these hypotheses in a continuous feedback loop, and gain valuable learning and knowledge. It promotes testing improvements on a small scale before updating organisation-wide procedures and work methods. The PDCA cycle consists of four components:

Plan – Identify a problem and collect data. Develop hypotheses (theories) about what the issues may be and decide which one to test.
Do – Carry out an experiment or pilot a solution. Collect data to measure the results.
Check –Study the results and discuss what has been learned
Act – Document the learning. If the solution was successful, implement it or agree the next experiment. If not, decide on the next plan and repeat the PDCA cycle again.