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Phillip Slater

Consultant and Author

Phillip Slater provides a unique combination of skills and experience

   Phillip Slater

 

 Phillip Slater

   

 

With nearly 25 years of operational improvement experience Phillip Slater provides a broad combination of skills and experience.

 

At just 24 years of age Phillip started his first organizational turnaround, taking a maintenance department from a craftwork approach to scientific management based maintenance. At 27 Phillip moved to another state and repeated the program at another factory in the same group.

 

The success of that program led Phillip, at 29, to the role of State Operations Manager. After successfully ‘turning around’ that state’s operations, Phillip was, at 31, offered the role of National Operations Manager, the youngest person to be offered that role. For family reasons Phillip turned down that opportunity and subsequently joined a consulting group.

 

Starting as a consultant, Phillip was, after just 6 months, put in charge of a profit centre with a team of consultants offering Operations Improvement Services. This later expanded to overseeing groups in Australia and Asia and ultimately a role on the Executive, overseeing a large group providing operational, engineering and equipment development services. Phillip’s next challenge was as an Operations Management Principal for a global consulting firm employing 6,000 consultants worldwide. A desire to ‘do his own thing’ led Phillip to leave it all behind in 2001 to start his own company, Initiate Action. Over the years Phillip has helped many companies improve profits, increase reliability and reduce working capital in many different industries and at least a dozen different countries.

 

Now Phillip utilizes the expertise and experience built up over nearly 25 years to assist select clients in operations improvement and inventory optimization. Phillip is also a prolific writer of management books and articles for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Asia and North America. Through Initiate Action Phillip also licenses his intellectual property and processes to other companies for software development and service delivery.

 

Publishing Highlights

 

Books:

  • The Optimization Trap (2008)

  •  A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement (2007)

  • Smart Inventory Solutions (2007)

  • Contributor to: Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practice (2006)

 Articles published in:

  • The Asset Management and Maintenance Journal

  • Australian Financial Review

  • The Bangkok Post

  • Business Essentials 

  • CEO Online

  • Maintenance Journal

  • My Business Magazine

  • RAMS Asia

  • Reliability Magazine

  • Reliability Web

  • Supply Chain Magazine

  • Uptime Magazine

Tertiary Qualifications 

  • Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), UNSW

  • Grad Dip Maintenance Management, Monash University

Employment History 

  • Initiate Action (2001 - ): Principal Consultant and Director

  • Yooralla (2001 - ):Non Executive Director

  • A.T. Kearney (1999 – 2001)

  • Invetech (1994 – 1999)

  • Smorgon Plastics (1987 – 1994)

  • Colby Engineering (1986)

For further information on how Initiate Action can improve your business contact Phillip Today!

 

Initiate Action Pty Ltd

49 Vida Street, Aberfeldie Vic 3040 Australia

phone: +61 3 9331 3181 fax: +61 3 9331 3180

USA and Canada Free Call 800-581-7678

 

 

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