July 2022

Last week, I shared a universal framework on how to identify improvement opportunities – areas, activities and tasks where we are wasting resources in business and life energy in ourselves. Once we learn such techniques the problem shifts from being blissfully ignorant, to seeing inefficiencies everywhere – at work, in the supermarket, at the service […]

My article on the Weekend Australian

Supply Chain Excellence, Operational Excellence (OpEx), World-Class Manufacturing – a few terminologies used to describe frameworks that help organisations continually shift performance year-on-year.  Each year, there are two reports that I eagerly read with regards to global Supply Chain Excellence; Gartner’s Global Top 25 Supply Chain report and Supply Chains to Admire report by Supply

I’ve appeared on stages, podcasts, newspapers, radio and industry magazines over the years, but last week I had the opportunity to be interviewed for TV – my first. The topic – current state of the Australian manufacturing sector and how to advance it. The opening question from Ticker News anchor-man Adrian Franklin was, where is

I learnt something important during my first annual performance review as a Manufacturing Manager with a multi-national company, more than a decade ago. Measuring the real business performance maturity is not just based on Profit & Loss (P&L) results. In that year, one of the production lines I was responsible for, delivered exceptional results throughout

In my previous newsletter I shared the overarching ‘universal’ framework to improve productivity and performance, at work or home; 1) Identify, 2) Prioritise and 3) Implement.  Over the coming weeks I intend to go deeper into each one of these areas.  So, let’s focus on Identifying improvement opportunities today. (If you’d rather watch the recorded