Graham Kenny

Dr Graham Kenny heads Strategic Factors which specializes in strategic planning and performance measurement and is an acknowledged expert in these fields having written numerous articles and three books on these topics. As consultant he assists organisations to undertake strategic analysis, develop and implement strategic plans and measure their performance. He does this, in part, through a facilitation process designed to ensure that his clients retain ownership of whatever is produced.

For more than 20 years, Graham has also conducted public seminars on strategic planning and performance measurement.

Through his roles as consultant and presenter he has encountered a vast array of organisational situations and problems.

In the private sector he has consulted to clients in buying groups, medicine, hotels, shipping, transport, property management, legal services, building and construction, mineral processing, software development, electrical equipment, importing, battery production, mineral refining, food processing and packaging, banking, communications, dairy products, pharmaceuticals, information services, concrete, mining equipment, paper products, health services, manufacturing, civil-engineering consulting, property development and hospitality industries. 

In the public sector, again in strategic planning and performance measurement, Graham has assisted clients in hospitals and human services, sustainability, treasury and finance, local government, funds management, electricity transmission, sport promotion, cemeteries and crematoria, government infrastructure, energy and resources, port facilities, main roads and highways, information services, trustee services, lotteries, horse racing, tax, railways, higher education, the armed forces, government research, health, forensic medicine, technical repairs, rural finance, agriculture, electricity supply and water resources. 

In the not-for-profit sector, again in strategic planning and performance measurement, Graham has consulted to organisations in caring for the mentally disabled and autism and for university-college accommodation.

Graham’s executive experience has also been considerable. As CEO, he was responsible for turning a loss-making manufacturer of timber building products into a profitable operation. He has been Plant Manager in a concrete company, a Market Development Manager at an electricity generator and distributor, and a Design Engineer and Construction Supervisor in a city council.

Dr Kenny has written three books: Diversification Blueprint: Managing in a Diversified Organisation, published in 2008 by President Press and re-published in 2009 by Kogan Page as Diversification Strategy: How to Grow a Business by Diversifying Successfully - translated into Polish in 2010; Sure-Fire Steps to Small Business Success, published in 2007 by President Press; Strategic Factors:  Develop and Measure Winning Strategy, published in 2001 by President Press and re-published in 2005 by Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann as Strategic Planning and Performance Management. This was translated into Arabic in 2007.

He also writes extensively in publications aimed at on-the-job managers.  His articles have appeared in Company Director, Leadership Excellence, Management, Marketing, Commodities & Trade to Asia, HR Monthly, National Accountant, Business Performance Management, Management Today and Charter.

Dr Kenny has also published numerous articles in academic management journals throughout the world, some of which have been reproduced in U.S. management textbooks and translated into other languages. These journals have included Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Journal of General Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Evaluation Review, Journal of Management in Engineering, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, International Journal of Manpower, Management Decision and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Graham’s academic qualifications include: Doctor of Philosophy in Management from the University of New South Wales, Australia; Master’s Degree in Management from Durham University, United Kingdom; Bachelor of Engineering from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He has been a Professor of Management at San Diego State University, U.S.A., the University of Alberta and the University of New Brunswick, Canada; Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bradford Management Centre in the United Kingdom; Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida, U.S.A.; Adjunct Professor of Management at Bond University, Australia; and Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Graham is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and a Member of the U.S. Academy of Management.