Team Galapathy

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

There’s never a dull moment in manufacturing, right?  I understand – I’ve been in roles where I had to sleep with the phone next to me, hoping it wouldn’t ring in the middle of the night. 

Over the past few weeks virtual team meetings have become the new norm for many business teams. So much so, that some are experiencing zoom fatigue. So how can we ensure that we are maximising our team’s engagement and delivering productive online team meetings?

My younger son loves to play cricket. Recently the (main) summer season ended but my son enrolled for a winter season tournament – he just can’t get enough of it!  I was helping the team to scout for a cricket ground which is a challenge in winter.  Councils convert them to soccer and footy fields

I made my first domestic flight to Melbourne this week in 15 months with almost the same level of excitement when I got onto a plane for the very first time a few decades ago – as a little boy.  There’s definitely a feeling of lightness as we return to some sort of normalcy, here

I was traveling last week and had a restaurant/pub meal with colleagues one evening. As I was picking up my meal, a set of pre-packed sauces in little containers caught my attention. “Well done!” I thought. They had planned to be a step ahead to meet those last-minute customer requests, for their favourite sauce, with