Delivering fractional executive, interim and consultancy services around Technology, Transformation and Leadership. Ensuring you work on and improve the root cause of issues and not just the symptom by providing expert independent support.Recent engagements:Delivery of major CAPEX project for a world leading durable goods manufacture.Established strategic project plans for a number of organisations including creating a strategic PMO.Fractional Executive roles for a number of clients covering strategy, operations, QHSE and business improvement.Facilitation of Strategic Business Planning event delivering a clear action plan to deliver growth.Development of a supply chain led Subsea Cable System forum for a major membership organisation.Conference organiser for Subsea Power Cables and Subsea Insurance

Chair and Trustee for the Wardie Family Forum, parent led charitable organisation supporting the school to deliver enhanced education opportunities through free access to all initiative.

Member of the UK Leadership team with accountability for delivering Operational Excellence,includes functional leadership of Process Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, Continuousimprovement & the delivery of strategic projects.• Launched a major cultural change programme for entire site and secured a significant fundingintervention from Scottish Enterprise over 3 years to support deployment.• A proactive safety leader demonstrated through Active Visible Leadership initiative to influencebehavioural safety, STOP Audits, ensuring adherence to Life Saving Rules. Core process lead for Permit to work, Risk Assessments including PUWER, JSEAs, High Hazard Tasks and Pressure Vessels within HSE system.• Created a manufacturing capability & site roadmap aligned to business strategy to support CAPEX investments• Developed a CTQ Flowdown process to tie Voice of the Customer through to manufacturingcontrols and used to create an improvement roadmap through to Industry 4.0 for the factoryincluding SPC and Condition Based Monitoring.• Developed an in-house data collection system to provide real-time OEE, Project Progress andCOPQ tracking in the factory supporting the move to a digitised factory (Industry 4.0).• Enhanced the root cause and risk management processes using the CTQ Flowdown to linkdirectly to critical inputs and outputs within the manufacturing process.• Actively coach and mentor leadership, management and key talent across worldwide sites onOperational Excellence principles, tools and techniques.• Effectively manage the site Project Deck & Improvement roadmap, supporting growth, safety,quality, delivery and cost reduction targets• Delivered a 25% improvement in profitability in 2015 which established a new cost model.• Lead and/or facilitate key projects and activities including the development, delivery andspecification of training on Operational Excellence & Quality tools.

Improvement Architecture is a consultancy which seeks to "Maximise the ability of your talent to deliver value" Through the support of improvements in Operational Excellence, Supply Chain Improvements, Strategy Development and Implementation and Talent Development.We have been appointed 3rd Party Expert on major government programmes (Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service and Growth Accelerator - Innovation)I support the business through development of products and services and investigation into new streams including software, business modelling and mobile applications to support our client base.Recent Projects:Rolling out a lean deployment programme for a Global FMCG organisation across 42 plants globally, along with leadership coaching for the Director for Operations and Sustainability following a hugely successful programme at the UK operationsManaged and delivered a large consultancy, coaching and training project with a umbilical manufacturing subsidiary of a major Oil & Gas Tier 1 over the past 36 months covering manufacturing all major functions within the business.3rd Party Expert for Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service on Lean manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, Lean Supply Chain & Lean Six Sigma service streams.Developed and delivered a Lean Supply Chain diagnostic and action planning for process for Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service & Scottish Enterprise.Implemented a Lean programme at a Tier 1 automative supplier which enabled £4M of additional capacity to be realised with £150K investment.

At the Leadership Network®, Alex is focused on the practical application and leadership of Lean Six Sigma within organisations, blending his own practical experience as a leader implementing change with technical expertise gained across multiple sectors as a consultant. He is able to generate learning & change through an approach that encourages asking powerful questions to challenge current assumptions and to select appropriate improvement methodologies. (https://theleadershipnetwork.com/leader/alex-macphie) The Leadership Network is an executive education company. It is a trusted provider to Fortune Global 500 companies. The Leadership Network® has provided courses and in-house training to over 4000 Directors and Senior Managers from companies like Lego, Unilever, Coca Cola and Nike.Created by experts, the bespoke training shows senior professionals how to create powerful strategies, manage change and lead people to achieve excellence in any business.Why we do it?The Leadership Network® believes that the only sustainable competitive advantage is a company’s ability to translate learning into action faster than the competition, today’s businesses need to innovate and compete more than ever before.How we do it?By providing 3 day courses with private benchmarking tours at the factories and facilities of world leading companies such as Toyota, Tesla, Lego and Zara.Our courses refine years of industry expertise and practical knowledge into dynamic learning experiences where senior professionals can network, benchmark and learn how to continuously improve faster than the competition.Why should I attend a course?Learn from an expert with over 20 years’ experience Benchmark against world class factories and facilities Experience a business excellence culture in practice Take a proven and actionable framework back to work Gain a TLN certificate and TLN learning points If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask which one, just get on!

As a Director of Pragmatique I worked across its Process, Purpose and Performance Practices, specialising in Process & Business Performance Improvement.I managed the business from start-up winning major contracts in both the public sector with the Manufacturing Advisory Service and private sector with large multinational organisations.I developed key products across the process improvement & strategy practices which enabled us to engage effectively with senior teams in organisations such as Technip, Corus, Intel and 3M to develop clear roadmaps.I developed experience & expertise in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Electronics, FMCG, Engineering, Tourism, Financial Services and Pharmaceuticals sectors. Personally delivering over 130 projects and managing project teams across many more.

Motorola Six Sigma Black Belt with annualised project savings > $50M and a member of Technical Ladder. Highly experienced 8D problem solving facilitator having worked on problems with local and international teams on a number of complex engineering and business issues.Responsible for the development of technical and production related projects to improve performance and the subsequent delivery of these as the lead or mentor within the project.Worked closely with procurement and supplier quality to develop supply chain relationships and manage effective commercial negotiations with our key partnersSelected for accelerated development on Motorola Global Leadership Training Programme achieving promotion 5 times in 9 years.Champion for Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA).Speaker at a number of major international conferences in Europe, USA and Japan with a number of published papers on advanced process control, DOE and plasma damage.

Responsible for the development of technical and production related projects to improve performance and the subsequent delivery of these.Responsible for Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) of toolset.

Selected as a member of the Development Team tasked with the development of in-house processes.Company representative in major European research projects with industrial and academic partners to develop next generation processes.Project lead for DTI funded project in collaboration with academia and government research