Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

In this episode I talk to Aiden O'Dwyer, Head of Operations Ireland & UK with DPS Engineering based in Cork, Ireland. DPS is a global consulting, engineering and construction management firm serving hihg-tech industries around the world.

Aiden has a long track record working internationally in the engineering services space in the energy and manufacturing sectors with firms such as Jones Engineering and the iconic Clonmel, Co. Tipperary firm Kentz Engineering. Aiden's current role focuses on manufacturing clients in the life sciences sector in Ireland and UK.

In this conversation we chat about Aiden's career progression and international experience over the last four decades. We explore how the concepts of "Lean" and "Last Planner" find application in the world of engineering services and discuss how COVID has been affecting the business over the last year and a half and accelerating changes in ways of working. We also discuss how climate change and the decarbonization of the economy is now becoming an ever-present agenda item in large engineering projects.

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In this episode I look forward to the changed world that is emerging from the pandemic and the many opportunities and challenges faced by companies that will require innovation and new ways of operating and competing.

I highlight 5 interrelated areas where most companies are facing change and pose some questions for you to consider regarding these areas in your own business or place of work.

The five areas are:

1. Technology and Digitization
2. Sustainability
3. Inbound Supply
4. Transport, Warehousing and Logistics
5. Governance of the Supply Chain

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Recent years have thrown up a series of events that have caused inbound supply disruptions for developed economies that are highly dependent on smooth operation of international supply chains.

Some of these disruptions have been bigger while others have been smaller, some have been regional and others global, but all have had significant impacts around the world.

Over last 10 years alone, among other events, we have had:

• The Fukushima earthquake and tsunami
• The Icelandic volcano and ash cloud
• US-China trade wars
• Brexit and ensuing import and export disruptions between the UK and its European trading partners
• The COVID pandemic causing global disruption impacting different regions at different times throughout 2020 and 2021
• Suez Canal blockage and resulting delays and supply shortages

The disruptions resulting from the more recent of these are still ongoing through 2021 and are having undesired adverse effects on supply chains all around the world affecting manufacturing, distribution and retail.

In this podcast we get front-line perspectives on the causes and effects of these supply disruptions from Europe, America and Australia as I am joined in discussion in this episode by Evan Bulmer, principal at Evan Bulmer & Associates in Adelaide, Australia and Lisa Anderson, president of the LMA Consulting Group in the Los Angeles California.

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This episode of Interlinks is a little different in that there is no guest – just me. I will be talking about innovation and the opportunities for businesses that are arising from the volatility and unpredictability that we been continuing to experience in recent times.

As we now look forward to the changed world that is emerging in front of us there are many opportunities and challenges that will need to be faced by businesses that are going to require innovation and new ways of operating and competing.

I will be highlighting 5 interrelated areas where most companies, I believe, will face change and pose some questions for you to consider regarding these areas in your own business or place of work.

The five areas are:

1.     Technology and Digitization

2.     Sustainability

3.     Inbound Supply

4.     Transport, Warehousing and Logistics

5.     Governance of Supply Chains

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In this episode we talk to Hamish Mackenzie, the founder and principal consultant at Hamish Mackenzie Consulting, based in Munich Germant. Hamish specialises in B2B Positioning and Differentiation helping his clients to make their business stand out from the rest in a competitive marketplace.

This is the second time that Hamish has been on Interlinks with us and I have asked him back because he has produced a new e-book called Extraordinary Made Easy: How to Make Your Business Stand-Out with Minimum Effort and is launching a new workshop on May 12th 2021, called the Valuable Difference Workshop specifically designed for CEOs and senior executives who want to learn how to position and differentiate their businesses to best effect.

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In this episode we take a deeper dive into the world of the supply chain, with a couple of colleagues of mine from the Supply Chain Special Interest Group at the Society for the Advancement of Consulting who will be joining me from the West Coast of the US and from Queensland, Australia. My guests are:

• Diane Garcia, President of Lorraine Consulting in Portland, Oregon in the US.
• David Ogilvie, Principal at David Ogilvie Consulting in Queensland, Australia

We will be talking about innovation in manufacturing and the implications for supply chains specifically in relation to:

• How manufacturing companies have been coping with the volatility and disruption over recent years and how this is shaping their strategies for the future.
• How the industrial internet of things (IIOT) or Industry 4.0 is affecting where and how things are made in the world and what the future might hold.
• How the digitization of manufacturing means that there will be an increased blurring of the lines between products-based businesses and services-based businesses.

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In this episode we talk to Alexander Nowroth, partner at the Dusseldorf based Management Consulting company LEBENSWERK CONSULTING GROUP.

This is the second time that Alex joins us on the show this year and I have asked him back because one of his specialist areas of expertise is Ocean Freight having worked with international logistics companies such as Dachser, Schenker, WorldNet, CTC and Maersk over the years.

Consequently, I wanted to get his views on the impact of the recent blockage of the Suez Canal by the 200,000-tonne container ship Ever Given with nearly 20,000 containers on board and the resulting disruption to global trade and supply chains.

The ship was stuck in the canal for 6 days from 23rd March and during that time a backlog of some 450 ships of all types and sizes with billions of dollars of freight on board was held up.

Indeed, the last of these delayed vessels only managed o pass through the canal over this past weekend nearly two weeks after the initial blockage.

In this conversation, Alex and I discuss the background to this incident, its implications and what we are likely to see occurring in the future for this crucial sector that binds our global supply chains together.

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In this episode we talk to Bruno Pesec, engineer, innovator and businessman. Bruno is president of Pesec Global, a business consultancy specializing in helping business leaders increase the returns on their investments in innovation, based in Oslo, Norway.

This is the second time that Bruno has been on Interlinks with us and I have asked him back on this occasion because he has just produced a new e-book called the 9 Big Don’ts of Corporate Innovation: How to Spot and Avoid Costly Innovation Mistakes that I think is timely given where we are in the world at this moment in time having lived through over a year of COVID-19.

During this time, many of us have been compelled to innovate to cope with the restrictions imposed on us by the pandemic, whether in our personal, social or professional lives .

Perhaps unexpectedly, some of us, I think, are realizing, that much of this innovation, although forced by emergency circumstances, will be very positive and stay with us for the long term. Many of us have also realized that we are quite resilient and have a capacity to absorb innovation and change that we did not suspect.

Consequently, we are asking ourselves – what other opportunities for innovation are there that we can initiate now without the need to be forced, and how can we do this in the most effective way?

That is what we explore with Bruno in this interview.

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In this episode of interlinks we are going to be taking a deeper dive into the world of the supply chain, with a group of international experts, all colleagues of mine from the Supply Chain Special Interest Group at the Society for the Advancement of Consulting joining me here in Europe from, Australia, and both the East and West coasts of the US.

My guests are:

• Evan Bulmer, President of Evan Bulmer and Associates near Adelaide in South Australia.
• Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting Group in the metro area of Los Angeles, California.
• Art Koch, President of Arthur Koch Management Consulting in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area of Florida.

We will be finding out what the current big issues are in supply chain in each of our regions in infrastructure, supply bottlenecks, trade barriers and so on.

We will also be talking about what kinds of challenges and opportunities our clients are facing this year, as well as exploring how we are engaging with them on strategy work at a time like this when things are changing so quickly.

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In this episode we will be talking to Colin Keogh, PhD, who is an innovation, technology, and engineering consultant among many other things. Colin is from Bray in Co. Wicklow, Ireland and continues to live there which makes me and him neighbours. We actually teed up this interview on Bray seafront.

While Colin is still close to his roots he has packed so much into the last 10 years that it is difficult to keep track of what he is up to at any given time.

Colin studied Mechanical Engineering at UCD at undergraduate level and then went on to do his Masters there in Energy Systems, followed by a PhD in Engineering working at the on-campus SMARTlab and the Inclusive Design Centre.

He then and worked at the university later as a Research and Development Engineer and later set up his own independent consultancy business.

As well as his work as an independent consultant over the last number of years some of the initiatives that Colin has been involved with include the Printastic Project. the Open Source Ventilator initiative, Forbes Lister Europe and the Rapid Foundation

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