In Strictly Boardroom, this week, on MiningNewsPremium.net, Allan Trench and myself tackle the thorny subject of management excellence and determine, with the help of Disney-Pixar, that it is the ability to manage paradox and multiple aims that is the key to going from good to excellent (and beyond...). The article is available to subscribers on the MiningNewsPremium.net website. For keen… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I was privileged to be asked by the University of Western Australia Business School to present to a group of visiting MBA students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. The talk had similar content to one given earlier in the year to students from the University of Alberta, however, with a bit more of… Read this post →
This week's Strictly Boardroom article on MiningNewsPremium.net with Allan Trench considers what is geoscience excellence in a mining a company? How can geoscience generate value for a mining company across the value chain and through the project cycle? And more importantly how can it be measured? The article is available to subscribers on the MiningNewsPremium.net website. For keen followers of… Read this post →
Earlier this year I was honoured to present a guest lecture to a group of MBA students from the University of Alberta visiting the University of Western Australia. Both states have major resource industries - oil sands for Alberta and mining and gas for Western Australia - so there was substantial interest in comparing the strategic approaches of both industriues.… Read this post →
A report released today by Ian Satchwell (University of Western Australia), Jim Redden (University of Adelaide) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (University of Western Australia and Curtin University) advocates for a greater role by the Australian government in economic diplomacy in relation to the international resources sector. Australia, as well as hosting a strong domestic mining industry, is also… Read this post →
