APS management lacks common sense

Comments on Phillip Thomson "Tony Shepherd's recommendations on management structure hits Australian public service", 16/07/2015

It is interesting to observe that this needs to be mandated by the APS Commissioner - that itself reflects how bureaucratic the APS, or its top management is!

It is commonsense and best left to the management of each area to decide, given that it is not an one size-fits-all, as stated.

PS: Although the Canberratimes emailed me that my comments were published, I tried to look at it and could not see it. See the email from Canberratimes below:

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It is interesting to observe that this needs to be mandated by the APS Commissioner - that itself refelcts how bureaucratic the APS, or its top management is! It is commonsense and best left to the management of each area to decide, given that it is not an one size fitt all, as stated.

Go back to read what others are saying :

Tony Shepherd's recommendations on management structure hits Australian public service

Modern business management - Telstra needs to be more strategic

Comments on Paul Budde “COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN - Telstra's home phone hopes”, 15/04/2010, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/article/will-t-hub-be-able-to-make-a-difference-pd20100414-4h8hd?opendocument&src=blb&is=non-industry&blog=communication%20breakdown

While it is important for Telstra to be innovative in its products and overall strategy for communications in Australia, it should be more strategic than that.

It should consider going beyond communication and take the advantage of its stable revenue to invest in other sectors. An option is to partner with an investment advisor or bank to seek and optimise capital return opportunities.

It has obviously lost opportunities last year when the financial market was highly depressed. For example, it could invest in Rio when the latter desperately needed capital injections. It could have avoided the unnecessary Rio Chinalco drama last year.

Instead of just negotiating with the federal government on communications and the NBN issue, it could look at other opportunities, so leave the NBN exposed to its bone.

It is a pity that some corporate Australia are so rigid and not flexible and strategic enough.

If I were a part of a corporate Australia, I would try to eliminate the existing sector “silos” to seek and maximise any strategic cross sector synergies.

Modern business management should have this mindset.

Logistic management and distribution

Comments on Robert Gottliebsen “Woolworths' weapons of war”, 1/04/2010, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Woolworths-Wesfarmers-Bunnings-Harvey-Norman-WOW-W-pd20100331-438EP?OpenDocument&src=sph

Arguably, a better system for logistic management and distribution would be a combination of a central point and flexible delivery system.

In such a system, orders can be automatically made centrally and the delivery can be a combination of direct and central distribution to minimise delivery and story costs.