Wan-chul Suh has served in maritime and offshore/onshore plant industries from 1975 after graduating ‘Seoul National University’ in Korea. His major is naval architecture and marine engineering.
He has built up outstanding competence for business transformation and development through a unique career path during more than 40 years; design engineer, production planner, project manager, director of the company-wide transformation program, executive managing director of corporate planning div. and CEO of Daewoo-owned shipyard in Europe.
‘Daewoo Rebirth Program(1988-1995)’ – Daewoo company-wide transformation program – is the highlight of his experience as a program director. The story starts with the situation considered as ‘total disaster’ from 1987 when DSME was on the brink of bankruptcy and ends in a legendary history, making it a successful case studies published in Harvard Business School 1994(by Prof. David Upton). Proper innovation is to understand the foundation that a real change is only viable from a transformative shift in thinking, attitude, behavior, system, and culture. The case study of the story specifically gave the high praise to achievement in an extraordinarily short period of time. It is called ‘meteoric improvement’.
Courtesy of the Photo album of 15th Anniversary of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering ‘The world within us’
From the end of 1996 to 1999, he ran, as CEO, ‘Restructuring of Daewoo-Mangalia shipyard’, which had been successfully carried out under the challenging circumstances in connection to language barriers and cultural differences. This project still stands as an excellent achievement and outstanding performance in corporate transformation history.
From 2000, he has taught courses on ‘Shipbuilding science’ and ‘Shipyard management’ in national universities in Korea, as an adjunct professor. In parallel with teaching, he, as a chief advisor, ran transformation projects in several shipbuilding companies in Korea and Europe until 2012.
Since 2013, he has been sharing his unique experience and technology for shipyards in Malaysia. He believes that Malaysian Maritime industry has a great potential through its geopolitical and cultural advantages that no other countries have.
Major consulting experiences
[Nov. 2013-Dec. 2017] Shipyard Transformation in Malaysia
[2005-2007] Shipyard Innovation in Europe
[2000-2013] Medium-sized Shipyards in Korea and others
[1996-1999] Restructuring ‘Romanian Shipyard’
[1988-1995] Rebirth of Daewoo Shipyard
For more information on the major consulting experiences, please go to Major consulting experiences
Teaching experiences
[2009-2010] Lecturer, ‘Changwon’ National University, Korea
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- On ‘Shipyard Management‘
- Acted as ‘Director of Academic-industrial cooperation center’
[2008-2009] Lecturer, ‘Chungnam’ National University, Korea
- On ‘Shipbuilding Science‘
[2002-2004] Professor(adjunct), ‘Gyeongsang’ National University, Korea
- On ‘Technology & Management‘
Recent projects and participation in Malaysian Maritime industry
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Consultancy on Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn. Bhd. [2013-2017]
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- Shipyard Transformation
- Successful Recovery of RMN Project
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Participation in Symposium in the Malaysia Maritime Industry
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- Keynote speaker, ‘Sharing Experience on Transformation of Shipbuilder’ at 3rd National Maritime Industries Forum by AMIM, MIGHT, MIMA on 18, Nov. 2014
Presentation document: please click the link below.
SHIPBUILDING IN MALAYSIA-Enjoy PROBLEMS (final)
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- Keynote speaker, ‘Paradigm Change in Shipbuilding concept and Continuous Improvement’ at International Technology & Innovation Symposium, MIMET & University Kuala Lumpur on 15, May. 2018
Synopsis
‘CHANGE‘ is constant. However, it is not easy to take action in a proactive and effective manner. According to my observation, there is great potential in the Malaysian Maritime Industry. They have a solid platform supported by the national shipbuilding program. They have a good human resource which is “confident young generation” for the better future. During my job life for 5 years, I enjoyed working with a younger generation who has hidden potential and ‘CAN-DO’ spirit within them. The content of this presentation is based on my experiences as a transformation leader in the field of manufacturing industries, maritime and oil & gas field for 44 years. For the purpose of this symposium, I will focus on my unique experience as the “program director of transformation” in Daewoo Shipyard. The story starts from 1987 when Daewoo was on the brink of bankruptcy and ends as the success case published in Harvard Business School 1994 by Professor David Upton. Proper innovation is to understand that real change comes from the different way of thinking, attitude, behavior, system, and culture. I believe that “paradigm change” is what is called for, in disclosing a true potential of the Malaysian shipbuilding industry. For this matter, I will lay out two new concepts that will reshape shipbuilding and its business process and two distinctive approaches that can remodel the spirits of people.
Presentation document: please click the link below.
Paradigm change in Shipbuilding concept and Continuous Improvement
- Plenary speaker, ‘How the South Korean made it?’_Beyond Innovation, Part 2 of Daewoo Rebirth story 1988-1993. The secret of success behind the most efficient shipbuilder in the world.’, National Symposium on Marine Technology 2018, co-organized by University Kuala Lumpur and Technology Depository Agency on 22, Oct. 2018.
Presentation document: please click the link below.
Part1, Miraculous recovery, Daewoo rebirth story(1)-for NSMT2018
Part2, beyond Innovation, Daewoo rebirth story(2)-for NSMT2018
Proper Mediation 