Faculty staff profile

Dr Graeme Cocks has had a wide-ranging career in executive management. His particular areas of expertise include strategic planning and operations management, process analysis, project management, performance measurement, technology transfer, business integration and change management.

Graeme has worked for organisations such as Drake International in performance improvement, change management and outsourcing projects. His role as General Manager Operations with the Australian Quality Council during 1993 to 1998 involved national responsibility for the delivery all of the Council's products and services based on the Australian Business Excellence Framework. While CEO of the Technology Transfer Council, Graeme was part of the team that successfully pioneered the introduction of just-in-time systems and value-adding management concepts into more than 200 Australian organisations.

Graeme has also enjoyed a successful consulting career, with clients including ICI (UK), Telstra, Olin Corporation (USA) and Canada Westinghouse. He is cited consistently in publications such as Who's Who in Business in Australia, Who's Who in the World and Men of Achievement. He recently co-authored one of Australia's most popular management books The First X1: Winning Organisations in Australia, that identified the key success factors in 11 highly successful organisations in Australia. He has published over 50 articles in international scientific and management journals and presented more than 100 conference papers and lectures on research findings, management practices and process management.

Recent publications and working papers

• The Seesaw of Governance: Getting the Balance Right
• The Blender Approach to Governance Leadership
• The Credit Crunch, Investor Activists and Corporate Strategy: Will This Mean Shareholders In The Boardroom?
• Improving Effectiveness of Boards - Bridging The Gap Between Commitment and Competence - The Australian Experience
• Innovation and Performance Management
• An Emerging Framework For Organisational Excellence
• Building a High Performance Service Organisation
• Becoming a High Performance Organisation
• What It Takes to Be A Winning Business
• Building Better Business Performance
• The First X1: Winning Organisations in Australia
• Entrepreneurship and Leadership - Prerequisites for a Winning Organisation
• Strategy in Action
• Changing Times and the Organisational Life Cycle
• Inside Corporate Boards: What Makes Them Tick?
• The Board of Directors as the Corporate Conscience - The Mediating Role of the Board and Stakeholder Engagement
• Emerging Concepts for Implementing Strategy
• The First X1: Winning Organisations in Australia (Second Edition)
• The First X1: Winning Organisations in Australia (First Edition)
• Activist Boards - Not Activist Shareholders
• Emerging Concepts for Implementing Strategy
• The Financial Crisis, Investor Activists and Corporate Strategy: Will this Mean Shareholders in the Boardroom?
• Where Small Business Hits the Big Time: Good Governance is More Affordable Than Ever
• Exploring the Keys to Effective Execution
• High Performers Down Under: Lessons from Australia's Winning Companies
• The Seesaw of Governance - Getting the Balance Right
• View all Graeme 's working papers & publications