Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

Edward Sweeney BA, BAI, MPhil, PhD, PGCert, FCILT, FCMI, FInstLM, FLS, FRSA is Professor of Logistics and Systems, and Director of the Aston Logistics & Systems Institute at Aston University. In this capacity he leads a multidisciplinary group of academics with interests in logistics systems, transport, supply chain and allied fields. From early 2014 to late 2017 he was Head of Aston’s Engineering Systems and Management (ESM) group.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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Today we are off to Denmark – one of our small-country peers in the European Union and a country that is often held up by some politicians and commentators as a country that we should aim to emulate in terms of equality, social services and environmental protection.

We will be talking with Sten Vesterli. Sten is a man with a long professional track record in the IT industry and one of Europe’s leading experts on software development and is one of only about 20 Oracle Ace Directors worldwide and is the author of 3 books on software development.

Sten runs an independent consultancy business and conducts business internationally from his base in Denmark and his stated mission is to make “IT Live up to its Promise” and today we will be finding out how he does that.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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On this show we have Stefan Bungart, Head of Digital Strategy, Marketing and Incubation at Siemens

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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Kevin McHugh has over twenty four years Board level international experience in governance, compliance and risk management and has over fifteen year experience as a Company Director. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments. In 2018 he founded Priory GRC Consulting Limited, a boutique consultancy company which provides a full range of services in governance, compliance and risk management.

Kevin has spoken at conferences in Ireland, the UK, Brussels and Amsterdam and has presented webinars to international audiences.

Kevin is a member of the Fund Raising Committee of Aidlink, a charity which exists to improve the lives of those in poverty in Africa, particularly in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana.

Kevin is an international chess player and Chairman of the Gonzaga College Parents Council. 

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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Liam Cassidy MD at LCL Consult Ltd.

With over 30 years of experience managing Manufacturing Plants, improving Supply Chains, and Developing Suppliers. Liam work, especially in the turnaround of poor performing factories has been particularly successful, and this has been acknowledged by major international institutes and journals. He was the leading Plant Manager of Lean Practices throughout my career with Gillette and Proctor & Gamble, creating benchmark sites in Ireland, Czech Republic, USA, India and China.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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In this episode we are heading back across the Atlantic to the United States of America and the city of Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie in the state of Ohio. We will be talking to Rebecca “Becky” Morgan, President of Fulcrum ConsultingWorks Inc. based in the city of Cleveland and focused on providing operations strategy consultancy to manufacturing companies.

The state of Ohio is one that is right in the crosshairs of globalization. On the one hand it is home to new and upcoming sectors focused on the digital and green economies taking advantage of global opportunities and yet it is part of what is some refer to as the “Rust Belt” where older, more traditional manufacturing has lost out to technology and offshoring.

Becky founded Fulcrum Consulting Works in 1990 and brings her expertise to a wide range of manufacturing clients having previously spent many years in positions of responsibility as an executive in manufacturing industry.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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"Interlinks with Patrick Daly" On today's show Patrick is joined in studio by Miguel Malfavon the Ambassdor of Mexico to Ireland.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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The show will deal with globalisation and its effect on business and the importance of links in business, culture and personal experience in an international context.

"Interlinks with Patrick Daly" Patrick's first guest will be Antonio Zrilic, from Zagreb in Croatia who runs a consultancy practice there and who has done business in Ireland. They will talk a little about Croatia itself, as well as the former Yugoslavia that it was part of - a little bit of historical context, current economic and political situation and any relevant connections between there and here.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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Michael Kelly, is a man with many years of experience doing business at home and abroad. As Ireland developed into an exporting powerhouse through the 1990s and 2000s it also opened to inbound trade as Irish companies and multinational companies based in Ireland demanded access to quality materials and products from overseas.

In those years Michael grew a specialized import and distribution business in the water and fire protection markets. During that time he built up strong business relationships with suppliers of pipes, valves and fittings in many countries around the world including Spain, Israel, China and South Korea.

Michael is here to talk to us about his experiences and reflections on doing business internationally as well as touching on some of his more social, sporting and altruistic activities. 

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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John Teeling is widely regarded as the father of the Irish whiskey renaissance. As a doctoral student at Harvard in 1970 he examined the collapse of Irish whiskey from having about 60% of world sales in 1850 and hundreds of distilleries, to becoming a monopoly in 1973 with less than 2% of Scotch sales. He made the decision to set up a new distillery.

It took 16 years to get the resources to do so. In the meantime he lectured in Business Administration at University College Dublin and developed a series of mining and oil exploration companies. In 1986 he set up Cooley Distillery followed 19 years later with the re-opening the long closed Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan. The key element in Cooley was to have both column stills and pot stills. This enabled Cooley to distil and supply a full range of whiskies from heavily peated to single grain. Over the years a range of Irish whiskies appeared on shelves around the world.

The venture took 11 years to make a profit and 15 years to payback but changing tastes in the early 2000s favoured Irish whiskey and sales boomed. Cooley was bought by Beam/Suntory in early 2012.

In 2013 John re-entered the business by acquiring the Harp brewery in Dundalk and setting up the Great Northern Distillery. Two large distilleries came on stream in 2015, pot stills and column stills. Once again, The Great Northern is now supplying a wide range of new make malt, pot still and grain whiskey to small distillers, Private Label and Retail Own Label customers.

John is married for 45 years to Deirdre with 3 children. Jack and Stephen have built the Teeling Whiskey Distillery in Dublin, the only operating distillery in the capital. Emma is a Professor of Science.

John holds degrees from University College Dublin (B Comm., M Econ. Sc.), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and a doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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