Kevin's expertise lies in extensive relationships, skills and experience
The consulting services of PMA
- Thorough research of the marketplace and competitors or the individual project dimension
- Researching competitor networks and influences, looking for the archilles heel.
- Ideas.
- Strategy development
- Change management designs and implementation
- Repositioning and reshaping business
- Looking for the self interest in decision makers and customers
- Powerful communication tools
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MOST RARE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION - THE LATERAL THINKER
Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the truth value of statements and seeking errors. Lateral thinking is more concerned
with the movement value of statements and ideas. A person would use lateral thinking when they want to move
from one known idea to creating new ideas. There are four types of "thinking tools" defined in Edward de Bono's Lateral
Thinking: The Power of Provocation manual:[1]
Idea generating tools that are designed to break current thinking patterns - routine patterns, the status quo
Focus tools that are designed to broaden where to search for new ideas
Harvest tools that are designed to ensure more value is received from idea generating output
Treatment tools that are designed to consider real-world constraints, resources, and support" (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking)
KEVIN R BECK
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
In the seventies Kevin Beck began creating, and implementing,
complex strategies for well known Australian enterprises both public and private. Many of these activities have been reported in the media,
and in professional journals, and have been the subject of
discussion in boardrooms, and government agencies, here in Australia and internationally. They have contributed to the shaping of future outcomes, in terms of industry, society and commerce.
Among this life work is the winning contracts, and reshapng of enterprises, contributing, $AUD3,200,000,000 to business over the past twenty years, not including the multiplier effects into commerce, industry and the wider community.Activities such as
the privatisation of the Victorian pwoer industry or the growth of
William Angliss Institute of Tafe (Victoria) and its activities in placing thousands of unemployed into careers.
Beck has worked, with multidisplinary teams, to manage existing businesses, often creating new ones generating millions in revenues.
You may have been impacted by, had exeperience of or be aware of some of these activities. What you may not be aware of is the extent and the drivers.
- Retail business development (Myer Western Stores and Norman Ross Discounts, 1974 - 1975).
- Member of the implementation team at the Medicare Regional Centre Orange New South Wales (1975)
- Senior Administrator,
Alexander Mackie School of Art, Alexander Mackie CAE, Sydney, change management and organisational performance, 1978
- Competition reserach and analysis, designing, and implementing, the working environment and
technology systems base and services architecture, underpinning the growth of law firm Freehill Hollingdale and Page, (now known as Freehills) (1979).
- Business development for the
Financial Management Research Centre at the University of New England, New South Wales (1980)
- Production division management and design of business models, reform processes,
performance review and a member of the Activities Review tasl force leading to the reform and privatisation of
the State Electricity Commission Of Victoria (the world's largest vertically integrated energy utility of its time incorporating coal mining, electricity generation, transmission and customer services (1982 - 1994)from within the State Electricity Commission Production Group and the
Australian Services Union Energy Branch Victoria Australia
- Performance management in hospitals and clinics - General Manager International Diabetes Institute Melbourne
and Director of Organisational Development,
Australian Hospital Care Group (11 hospitals in Qld, Vic, Tas, 1989 - 1990)
- Transformation of the Australian Services Union Energy Branch Victoria
into a commercial business, and development of extensive member services(1991 - 1994)
- Competition policy implementation, business and commercial development and internationlisation of the William Angliss
Institute of Tafe.(1994 - 1998)
- Kevin Beck was contracted as a strategist for Silcar (Victoria) to guide
their tender bid for
maintenance of the Telstra telepower networks, 35,000 exchange sites across Australia, in 1999. Silcar won a contract in the hundreds of millions, ongoing today.
- Levelling the playing field:
What do you do when big business dominates your patch and you are pushed into the background?
Example: On behalf o aclient dwarfed by competing interests, Professional Managers and Associates undertook a deep research programme and offered a compromise to the major competitor, to the key players (CSIRO and governments) but was rejected.
Kevin Beck then devised, and implemented, national and international
competition, and positioning strategy, including global representations in the UK,
Switzerland, Germany, Canada and the United States, on behalf of our client. Meetings with corporations, magnesium interests, financiers and governmet agencies.
Global distribution of multiple analysis papers on competing magnesium technologies. Economic analysis, critiques and assessments of the risks,
and merits, of the
Australian government light metals, and magnesium, strategy were distributed in Australia and internationally to bankers, investors, technologists, scientists, governments and the media.
Kevin Beck wrote to government committees, state, and federal parliamentary members highlighting the inherent risks where governments engaged in
"picking winners."
Assessing who are the competitors, in any industry segment, including hidden ones, and
what are their likely capabilities and abilities to impact?
Beck then undertook an assessment of the future of magnesium in Australia and globally as a business venture on behalf of the client.
This assessment lead to a conclusion at odds with the experts, and with government agencies. Subseqently PMA's client withdrew
from magnesium, and light metals, investment in Australia and internationally, well before before the
collapse
of the Australian government strategy. A strategy underpinned by CSIRO, and the advice and assurances of
large business interests.
Most notably the support for the high profile major project in Queensland championed by the Australian, and Queensland, governments -
Australian Magnesium.
The LMAA as it was known was quietly passed to CSIRO, to be lodged within their flagship light metals programme.
- Change management consultancy at the Department of Education Science and Training (Australian government, Canberra (assignment through Chandler McLeod 2005)
- OMA has represented private corporate clients 2005 - 2007 covering a range of industry sectors:
telecommunications tender bids
industry reform through government
representations before parliamentary committees on energy, manufacturing, technology and citizen participation
citizen participation in government and democracy
the use of electronic technology in citizen interaction with governments
service improvements in governmemt sectors
business performance diagnostics
smart card technologies,frameworks and applications
small to medium business enterprise development
government and corporate relations
public interest issues and analysis
analysis of strategy
financing small to medium businesses for growth and development.
comunications, marketing and image
Customised focus groups, surveys and research.
Kevin Beck has a published record of
predictive
analysis.
Kevin also advises, and assists a number of clients,
in their activities during Australia's political election campaigns, guiding their strategic interventions in politics, from 1984 - 2007.
PMA undertakes extensive ideas generation and preparation of white papers for clients, and self, on
public policy
circulating and presenting to government agencies and Ministries as well as representations, and appearances,
before parliamentary committees. All of these activities are relative to major, and very significant areas of state and federal governments including
public policy and their impacts on business. Aming examples are carbon and emmissions trading, medicare and the operation of the
Australian health sector, regional development and trade.
- Professional, operational, and management services to multinational technology company
Datacard
and advisory services, government and client representations support and research, for Australian boutique consulting firm,
Non Executive Management.
Clients use Kevin's predictive capabilities, to shield themselves from surprises, such as the
global economic crisis
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To arrange a meeting with us:
Email Tom Lefkovic
at Professional Managers and Associates Pty. Ltd. Melbourne, Australia, or telephone 61 3 9507 2477
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