Professor Graeme Sheather
Professor Graeme Sheather, Principal, Manufacturing Management and Data Analytics
Professor Sheather has been collaborating with Rodin Genoff on a professional and academic basis since 1996. This includes through the University of Adelaide jointly undertaking an Australian Research Centre project to research best practice innovation and business performance audits, and ecosystem and cluster mapping projects.
Graeme has been a Principal with Rodin Genoff & Associates since 2007. Together with Rodin they have formulated cutting edge business auditing and cluster and ecosystem mapping tools. Their mapping projects include, for example, with the South Australian Department of Employment and Training and Playford City Council, the Midjutland Regional Government in Denmark, Hub North Wind Energy Cluster in Denmark and Triple Steelix Industrial Region, Sweden. He is currently collaborating with Rodin to deliver an ecosystem and cluster mapping project for regional authorities in Melbourne, Australia and Mid North Sweden.
Graeme has also written 2 books with Rodin.
Rodin Genoff and Professor Graeme Sheather, Innovation and Knowledge Economy, Industrial Regeneration in Northern Adelaide, (A City of Playford publication for the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Training).
Rodin Genoff and Professor Graeme Sheather, Engineering the Future, (Region Midjutland, Denmark).
Professor Sheather was a fully licensed National Industry Extension Service TQM Consultant, a member of a number of professional institutions, and has played a major role in academic development and review committees both at University Technology Sydney (UTS) and as guest expert at other Universities. Previously he was an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a past Council member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, UTS’s foundation representative on the Advanced Manufacturing Council at the Australian Technology Park, and was a foundation member on the former NSW Government’s Manufacturing Industries Advisory Council.
Meantime he was former Director of the highly acclaimed Bachelor of Manufacturing Management Degree that enjoyed a national and international reputation, won major awards, and drew financial support from industry, Australian Business Limited, and the NSW and Federal Governments. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, he was the Course Director of the Innovation Degrees Program incorporating Bachelors in Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Engineering Science, and Information Technology Innovation.
Professor Sheather has some 40 publications across academic and professional journals, papers in referred conference proceedings, and technical inquiries and reports. He is joint author of three books and has chapters in a number of others.
His recent research and consulting has been in the areas of world’s best practice, corporate strategy, technology management, supply chain management, immersive technologies, and ‘kick Start’ programs to SMEs.