Troy Fazakerley

Troy Fazakerley is the founder of Business Alchemy Australia and the originating author of Pattern Science™, the management discipline that treats business chaos as a structural phenomenon, governed by five interdependent patterns operating in a constraint hierarchy.
His diagnostic methodology, the Pattern Disruption Index™, has been deployed across founder-led businesses in construction, utilities, engineering, transport, solar and professional services over two decades of advisory work.
Troy's argument - that most business interventions fail not because they are wrong, but because they address symptoms rather than the structural patterns generating them, tested in the field through Covid, the 2022 inflation surge, and the current fuel crisis

Latest from Troy Fazakerley

Cost cutting is the wrong answer to fuel prices: Here’s what structural businesses are doing instead

By Troy Fazakerley | 1 April 2026

  Every founder in Australia is getting the same advice right now. Review your supplier contracts. Reduce discretionary spend. Defer the investment you had planned. Cut the overhead you can’t justify under pressure. Watch your margins. It’s not bad advice. It’s just incomplete. And for most businesses, it will produce exactly what it has always…