Adam has a Bachelor of Engineering with honours and a Bachelor of Science from The University of Melbourne, and has gained commercial experience leading technical, strategy and change projects with business, government, and industry.

 

His involvement in commercial, technical and advanced technology innovation projects and ongoing research in future trends gives him a practical vantage point from which to guide leadership teams towards adoption of a new directive and implementation of a cross-organisational transition process supported, as required, by multi-disciplinary teams. He works effectively across the interface of management, engineering and scientific research to increase collaborative design and delivery.  

 

Over 20 years studying and consulting Adam has become sensitive to the human, socio-cultural and economic dimension of new technology adoption. The major gap he has seen, in many enterprises, is an underlying lack of clear executive mandate and actionable directive towards the preferred adoption of or adaptation to advanced technology solutions. Adam views this gap, in the leadership of any enterprise, as a major risk area and large cause of lost enterprise value, especially with the current shifts occuring across the market today. He sees almost every project and key decision point as opportunities for the enterprise to integrate and adapt to advanced technology solutions. This can more easily occur if the enterprise, as a whole, understands what to adopt?, how to adapt?, why? and how to gain benefit?. But with every decision and project many opportunities are regularly lost becuase there is often a lack of strategic clarity and when all these lost opportunities for advancement are combined they multiply. Quite rapidly this can amount to significant lost enterprise value and reduced market positioning caused by a large compounding effect over time in terms of capability and adjustments to operational efficiency, marketing and sales success and the fundamental business model. At the core of this loss is often a central management issue in the enterprise, which is typically caused by a failure to set a guiding strategic frame and execute a structured approach to develop future competitive advantage using advanced technology. 

 

Over many years working with business, manufacturers, building and construction industry, local, state and federal government on projects valued collectively at over $10b dollars, Adam has developed valued insight to assist in:

• Understanding the competitive importance of advanced technology going forward and take action to shift their enterprise on to an advanced technology responsive track.

• Redefining existing products and production, create new options, develop, adopt or acquire advanced technology to grow the enterprise and achieve competitive advantage.