Mark Rehn
 |
|
Biography
Dr Mark Rehn (BE PhD MBA FAICD FIEAUST FIMCA CMC)
- Born and educated in South Australia as a civil engineer, Dr Rehn spent his first 10 years of professional life designing bridges in Germany and designing civil works for a water utility in Australia
- He then co-founded and developed one of Australia’s leading management consultancies (Aptech Australia) for 13 years – helping public and private sector clients understand and implement best practices for running their businesses
- After the consultancy firm was acquired by IBM in 1996, he held executive positions in Knowledge Management, Strategic Partnering and Business Transformation for Australia and New Zealand
- He left IBM in 2001 to practise as an independent management consultant, still focused on helping clients pursue and implement business excellence
- In total, throughout his 37-year consulting career, Dr Rehn has worked with approximately 1,000 client organisations in Australia and New Zealand across most industry sectors – mainly in the facilitation of strategic plan formulation and execution, process re-engineering projects, fast process improvement projects and development of performance monitoring systems consistent with the 5 business excellence prerequisites
- For 24 years was an Associate Program Director with the Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education (now part of the Melbourne Business School) on the topic of how best to pursue and implement excellence in business
- Dr Rehn was a principal architect and deliverer of the national Leadership 21 program for Owner / Managers of Australia’s SMEs. Dr Rehn facilitated the introduction of key ‘How To’ techniques for implementing business excellence in each participating SME
- Over the past 8 years he has authored and co-developed a website and associated on-line Portal and online consultant Toolbox to enable SMEs to help CEOs orchestrate and implement company-wide business excellence fast and at a fraction of the usual cost of hiring management consultants
- TEC Master Speaker (300+ TEC workshops)
Comments from TEC presentations
- "Deep knowledge of subject with relevant examples. Presentation style is interactive with the use of ‘live’ flip charts"
- “Importance of doing things in the right sequence, powerful framework and PDCA Wheel + Wedge”
- "Great framework to plan and manage our business. Process design and improvement will be of great help"
- "Framework for business excellence - a great model"
- “The importance of systems and logic in the development of Business Strategies and the role of the CEO.”
- “Key take out: simple explanation”
- “Wheel and Wedge is a great concept. Also, the notion of measuring how we are changing the business and operating the business as two things is powerful.”
- “A very simple but effective way to structure strategic and process improvement”
- “Simple roadmap and 1-page models for achieving excellence”
- “A very simple but effective way to structure strategic and process improvement”
- “Strategic planning and execution on a series of relatable 1-pagers”
- “Simple methodology of doing 1- page Strategic Planning and Process Improvement with measurable outcomes”
TEC awards
- Speaker of The Year: 2005 & 2009
- Chair Choice Award: 2009
- Outstanding Performance: 2007 & 2009
- Mick Robertson Award: 2011/2012
- 100% Club TEC10, TEC23, KEY 103, TEC41
|
| ||||
|
|
Presentations
Subject Matter: Implementing Strategy; Business Process Improvement / Lean; Agile Thinking
Suitable For: KEY; TEC; TECR;
Duration: 3 hours
Implementing Excellence and Agility in an SME
As a result of 50 years of international collaboration, there is now a remarkable worldwide consensus on what it takes to improve a business enterprise in the best possible way. In this session, with 37 years of implementation experience in a wide range of enterprises (including his own), Mark takes the members through a sequence of logical steps for practical implementation within any small to medium enterprise.
The workshop is interactive and hands-on, with each member working on his/her own business.
The workshop develops three themes considered to be prerequisites for implementation success:
- Simplification - the need for the CEO and Management Team to simplify the key messages of business excellence using a common language when communicating with their employees.
- Integration - the need for the CEO and Management Team to ensure that all initiatives undertaken are clearly linked to all other initiatives undertaken and planned - so that the employees can readily see and buy into the importance of each step in the journey.
- Sequence - the need for the CEO and the Management Team to implement the necessary steps in the right order - again to avoid confusing the workforce as much as to maximise the return on effort.
The members receive a comprehensive reference handout for these proven techniques which, if done well, will transform the performance of their enterprise. Following the session, each member will be emailed a free copy of the eBook “The 5 Master Steps for Sustainable Profitable Growth”.
Having now spent 37 years helping businesses reap the benefits of pursuing excellence, Mark believes it is time that many more SMEs in Australia took up the challenge. Less than about 1% of SMEs are actively implementing these techniques in an integrated manner. Reflecting hundreds of global Case Studies, the Business Case for doing so is compelling.
This is an investment that no enterprise of any size can afford to ignore - and the entire workforce (including the top team) has fun doing it.
