PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AND ASSOCIATES (PMA)
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
STRATEGY AS ART - LATERAL THINKING PAR EXCELLENCE

WHY PAY THE HIGH RATES THE BIG NAMES DEMAND?

KEVIN R BECK CAN RUN RINGS AROUND THEM! AND WE WILL CHARGE YOU 50% OF THEIR RATE.



SO THIS IS NOT A FLASH WEB SITE! WHO CARES IF YOU ARE BUYING AN OUTCOME? OUR CLIENTS DON'T.

BEFORE YOU READ ABOUT PMA I WANT TO RAISE CLIMATE CHANGE WITH YOU.
NOT INTERESTED? CLICK GO TO PMA SERVICES.

THE MATERIAL BELOW IS NOT THE OPINION OF TOM LEFKOVIC.

IT IS A CAMPAIGN INSTIGATED BY KEVIN R BECK ON HIS OWN MERITS.

IN CASE YOU THINK WONDER - THE COMMENTS BELOW, REGARDING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE DO NOT INDICATE HOW WE WILL PERFORM YOUR ASSIGNMENT.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST KEVIN RUDD'S ETS

IT IS TIME TO ACT COLLECTIVELY TO SAVE AUSTRALIA


If Kevin Rudd and the labor party in Australia's federal government go ahead with their planned carbon reduction scheme scheduled for 2010 they will wreck Australia's economy and leave a mark more indelible than the recession Australia had to have under Paul Keating.

Brendan Nelson, is essentially right in trying to preach caution and block labor's moves. This is not about politics and simple resistance or activism. This is about survival economically and socially, defying the efforts, and actions, of people who colllectively have never created anything. They are theorists and academics. politicians of zeal and ideology whose beliefs, and passions, are extremely dangerous. Want to know more about climate change and the emission trading scheme? Click here. We must draw on our own experiences and resources to resist, block and if necessary destroy their resolve and strategies. If the Rudd labor government spends a million, or more, of public funds on advertising their view points and plans about the ETS (emissions trading scheme) then they should also fund counter opinions in the interest of the nation. (note the above is the opinion of Kevin R Beck, who owns this web site, and not necessarily the opinion of Tom Lefkovic)


PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AND ASSOCIATES
TOM LEFKOVIC AND KEVIN R BECK
PO Box 6701 St Kilda Road Central, Melbourne Australia 3004
Telephone: 61 3 9529 3133
Fax: 61 3 9529 3199
Email: kevinrbeck@bigpond.com
Email: Tom_Lefkovic@yahoo.com


DO WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS? YES IF IT IS CHALLENGING.
WILL WE CARE IF WE DO NOT GET IT? YES, BUT IT WON'T OCCUPY OUR MINDS FOR LONG.

SPECIALISING IN


  1. Company secretarial and accounting


  2. Medium and long term personnel provision


  3. Regulatory paper and electronic returns and compliance for public companies in Australia


  4. lateral thinking stratgey, problem solving and ideas, solution implementations


  5. People and networks, their services, introductions and teaming


  6. Covert strategy and campaigns implementation competitive positioning and tactics


  7. Covert strategies and campaigns design, implementation Deep cognitive and analytical skills strategies, politics and business, alliances with other common interest individuals/groups


Professional Managers and Associates (PMA) is a commercial business operating in Melbourne, Australia. It is managed by Tom Lefkovic. The company provides, inter alia, through Tom, a range of accounting, and secretarial services, to public and private enterprise and clients. Tom, is a Chartered Accountant, and has extensive experience in public floats and prospectus preparation along with the returns required under Australian corporation and security laws. Tom also works with colleagues in the property development market. The company provides a completely different set of services through Kevin R Beck and his colleagues.

Kevin R Beck lives in Australia, and services local and multinational global clients. He is a multiple, post graduate alumni member of the University of Melbourne (1997 - 2004). He is also a graduate of Bathurst Teachers College and Mitchell College of Advanced Education, now Charles Sturt University, in Bathurst, New South Wales Australia. He has also completed study units at Monash University Gippsland Camous n Victoria.

He provides extensive, highly complex multi-skilled services, through PMA, under agreed retainer consulting contracts, across a broad number of industry sectors in Australia and internationally.

With research you will find his activities, outcomes, both disappointing and successful, over the years, reported in Australian media archives, in Australian parliamentary reports and other publications, in the University of Melbourne Library and the State Library of Victoria and other repositories and on the web.



To actually determine the extent of skill, and suitability, for your assignment you may wish to examine the Mosaic Portal web network designed by Kevin. Within its parametrs you will find among other things a prescient ability to predict events, outcomes and anticipate. This is not futurology, or palm readings and crystal ball gazing, but a highly developed set of cognitive and analytical abilities. There are a number of highly paid executive and advisers within large enterprises, and Ministers, political advisers and senior public servants governments, here in Australia and internationally, that under estimated the tactical capabilities of PMA. The cost of their inability to assess the situation, tactics and strategies, exceeds $A2,000,000,000. On the other hand there are a blancing group of satisfied clients and employers.

Kevin Beck develops complex multifaceted external competitive strategies as well as internal change, repositioning and performance improvment plans for clients. Kevin Beck then implements them from within the client organisations.

Elements of strategy, and planning, may be traditional in nature, such as marketing, communication and business development though they may not be the primary deliverable. The primary deliverable may be the neutralisation of competition or the marginalising of competitors and opposing interests using lateral, complex and detailed exercises. The client decides. There are also business development and change management examples within the Beck portfolio of experience.

In addition Kevin Beck implements campiagns and strategies beyond the client base into a number of public interest arenas interacting regularly with parliaments and public service enterprise across Australia. He is building a human network linked to a technological foundation which can be used as part of an overall strategy.


What Beck and PMA do

  1. Thorough research of the marketplace and competitors or the individual project dimension


  2. Researching competitor networks of associates, funding sources, bankers and other key influences and foundations


  3. Developing targeted (on opposition entities) economic evaluations and presenting in decision maming forums, financing and investment environments. Extensive Australian and international experience. Objectives may be to gain funding for clienmt project. It may also be to diminish their success ratio or create barriers to competitors funding plans. Slowing down competitors to enable catch up or overtaking.


  4. Determining the extent of influence of the market leading enterprises with governments, business and wider society


  5. Extent of opposing interests' own networks, the capacity and influence of individual owners, Board members and executives, multiple positions and power bases


  6. Assessment of opposing/barrier interests weaknesses, exposures, possibilities to infiltrate


  7. Identifying internal and external decision makers and influences, players and interests hidden from view or over the horizon


  8. Strategy development and amendments


  9. Change management designs and implementation


  10. Tenders and large scale repositioning of business


  11. Deep business analysis with multiskilled associates


  12. Communications, marketing, surveys and focus group research with assocaites


How we do it

  • Get approval for plans and implement, communicate processes and progress to client


  • Different methodologies: may include leveraging and developing networks, arranging access


  • May include Competitive marketing and positioning as well as project and change management.


  • May include alliances and joint venture developments, new business opportunities
  • May include counter strategies and counter attacks



    • Among the methodologies we will use media, business and government processes, we will use networks, commercial and creative arguments and presentations, along with a complex mix of approaches.

    In counter assignments, as a part of the approved implementation we may seek to create hurdles, and barriers, against opposing vested interests slwoing them or causing them to expend resources and time, diverting their attention and effort. We may seek to attach their interest to that of our client. This implementation programme can involve presenting scenarios to the enterprises that fund opposing interests' activities, either from within Australia or internationally. For example we may communicate with parliaments, bureaucracies, politicians, corporate interests, social and community interest groups, financiers, other interests, investors, potential investors, shareholders, regulatory authorities, international governments and other vested interests. We will usually seek the development of harmonious relationships, alliances and/or coexistence where we can rather than move to head on confrontation which is the last resort.






    CUTTING EDGE ORGANISATIONAL THEORY IN PRACTICE
    MOTIVATING - COMING OUT OF LEFT FIELD - BLINDSIDING - VERY HIGH SECTOR IMPACT


    Where Beck has done things: Assignment Examples


    Since the late nineteen seventies Kevin R Beck has created, and implemented, complex strategies working within enterprises (public and private corporations and government owned enterprises and agencies) with teams to manage and grow businesses, reorganise and reposition. Many of these activities have been reported in the media and in professional journals and have been the subject of discussion in some boardrooms here in Australia and internationally.

    This work includes winning contracts and impacting outcomes totalling $AUD3,200,000,000 over the past twenty years, not including themultiplier effects into commerce and industry and the wider community. Beck has worked, with multidisplinary teams, to manage existing, or to create new, businesses, 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.

    1. Retail business development (Myer Western Stores and Norman Ross Discounts, 1974 - 1975).


    2. Member of the implementation team at Medicare Regional centre Orange NSW (1975)


    3. Alexander Mackie School of Art, Aleaxnder mackie CAE, Sydney, change management and organisational performance, 1978


    4. Designing and implementing the business and technology strategy for the growth of law firm Freehill Hollingdale and Page, (now known as Freehills) (1979).


    5. Business development Financial management reserach Centre at the University of New England, NSW (1980)


    6. Production division management and participation in the design of business models, reform processes, performance review and ultimate 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)frm within the State Electricity Commission Production Group and the Australian Services Union Energy Barnch Victoria Australia


    7. Performance management in hospitals and clinics - International Diabetes Institute and Australian Hospital Care Group (Qld, Vic, Tas, 1989 - 1990)


    8. Transformation of the Australian Services Union Energy Branch Victoria into a commercial business, and development of valued member services(1991 - 1994)


    9. Competition policy implementation, business and commercial development and internationlisation of the William Angliss Institute of Tafe.(1994 - 1998)


    10. Beating the name players in their own field - Beck was contracted as a strategist for Silcar in their tender bid for maintenance of the Telstra telepower networks, 35,000 exchange sites across Australia.(1999). Silcar won.


    11. Levelling the playing field:

      What do you do when big business dminates your parch and you are pushed into the background?

      Example: On behalf o aclient dwarfed by competing interests, PMA 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 multiplepapers on competing technologies. Economic analysis, critiques and assessments of the risks, and merits, of the Australian government metals and magnesium strategy. Beck wrote to state, and federal governments and the media highlighting the inherent risks in governments       "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. PMA's client withdrew from magnesium, and light metals, investment in Australia and internationally, well before before the collapse of the Australian government 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 government - Australian Magnesium. The LMAA as it ws known was quietly passed to CSIRO, lodged within their flagship programme.


    12. Change management consultancy at the Department of Education Science and Training (Australian government, Canberra (assignment through Chandler McLeod 2005)


    13. 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.       Predictive analysis.


      Political election campaigns (various) and strategic interventions, from 1984 - 2007

      Public policy analysis, commentary, submissions and white papers. Representations and appearances before parliamentary committees.



    Add our networks and relationships to your own and the result is a huge network, across Australia and internationally. We utilise the six degrees of separation, and common interests, strategies constantly.



    INITIAL REQUIREMENTS


    For our first meeting you will have to cover the costs of our travel, out of pocket expenses and a fee, to meet with you, anywhere in the world. When you contact us and tell us where, and when, we will give you the all inclusive cost. After that meeting we will tell you the cost of the submission (strategy plan) preparation and also the full strategy implementation costs for each element of the plan to you.

    To arrange a meeting Email Tom Lefkovic

    Professional Managers and Associates Pty.Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, telephone 61 3 9529 3133 (facsimile 61 3 9529 3199). Detailed assignments and resumes will be provided on request.


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