Discover the Future of Opportunities in Asia
Australia Asia Research and Innovation.
Discover the Future of Opportunities in Asia
Australia Asia Research and Innovation.
About Australia Asia Research and Innovation
Our Story
At Australia Asia Research and Innovation, we started with the goal of providing the best research, development and innovation to our customers. With over 40 years of experience in the industry, we have established ourselves as a trusted brand that delivers quality every time.
Roderick Glass
Rod has more than 40 years’ experience in education, agribusiness, food supply chains and program and strategic business development. Rod is passionate about helping partners and clients maximise efficiency and productivity and improving business performance with a focus on business and people development.
Affable and approachable, Rod has extensive experience running large scale transformation businesses across countries. His key strengths include: business strategy, business sustainability, systems leadership, workplace research and innovation and enhancing productivity.
His appointments
Rod is:
Managing Director - Australia Asia Research and Innovation
Chief Executive Officer - PTEAPAC
Board Member and Treasurer of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam
Research and Innovation Projects Completed
ABSENTEEISM- A LONGITUDINAL STUDY FOR AUSTRALIAN MEAT PROCESSING INDUSTRY A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Absenteeism is a complex issue in the meat processing industry with numerous associated causes, including illness, workplace injury, employee disengagement, partial shifts, family issues and burnout. The project will undertake a longitudinal study across 20 to 25 plants to understand the workforce problems associated with absenteeism. The project will review each of the plants over a three-year period so providing an initial understanding of the true cost of absenteeism based on their own data.
The essential to the project’s success is the interaction with the plants from the current retention study to develop a framework to assist in the reducing plant absenteeism. The project will create linkages between data from the plant and the quantitative research within this project to understand the cost of absenteeism.
UNDERSTANDING AN INNOVATION CULTURE AND ITS EFFECT IN AUSTRALIAN RED MEAT PROCESSING PLANTS: AN APPL
The project delivers an adoption framework for AMPC and the individual meat processing plants to take up and facilitate a wide range of research opportunities particularly through PIP development. Adoption can be problematic inside plants; key to project success is the development and engagement of staff.
Stage 1 was highly successful providing a baseline for the 9 plants, all plants expressed a desire to be involved in Stage 2. A further 9 plants expressed interest in the first stage but were not selected. These plants will be added to Stage 2 and all plants will undertake the full program.
DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH-BASED EMPLOYEE RETENTION FRAMEWORK FOR THE MEAT PROCESSING INDUSTRY
If the meat processing industry is to improve retention, plants need to place the right people in the right roles conducting the right work and a clear understanding of the underlying reasons for retention.
The project will be undertaken in three distinct phases (research, development and extension and training) with a target of between 20 and 30 plants. The research phase will utilise methodologies from previous studies and seek to build a longitudinal data set and extend this research to support the development, extension and training phases.
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN AGRIBUSINESS
Leadership is a key outcome for the meat processing industry and there are a number of key variables impacting our industry. These variables include the rapid growth of the sector over the past 20 years from a profitability and productivity perspective, and the continued moves to the Asian economy.
The program will seek to develop 12 with a focus on leadership and international business. This post graduate course provides the participant with a holistic learning experience to underpin the participant’s future in the international food industry.
EFFECT OF INNOVATION IN AUSTRALIAN RED MEAT PROCESSING PLANTS: AN APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP
This project seeks to understand the cultural barriers to innovation and develop a systematic approach to drive innovation within the business while simultaneously working to overcome the existing barriers. The available innovation and a firm’s ability to innovate are key profitability and productivity drivers (O’Donnell 2014), so why is business innovation difficult for our value chains? The hard systems thinking approach, or the reductionist approach, to innovation can lead to significant difficulties where the individuals who create the innovation cannot understand why it is not adopted.
UNDERSTANDING AUSTRALIAN FARM BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Project co-developer and project manager, the project provided an integrated approach to increase foundation knowledge by understanding the characteristics of sample of farmers in the top 25% in their industry in Australia. Farmers have limited means of comparing their current management practices and farm performance with other similar enterprise. The lack the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of their management practices in order to inform changes that can improve performance.
The research provided key performance insights into the key farming systems surrounding animal industries both intensive and extensive, cropping industries including mixed animal and cropping, and horticulture. The objective of this research was to gain key insights into the interrelationships between management strategies, practices and characteristics of farmers and associated farm business performance for a cross section Australian agriculture.
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