All post from: October 2016

The route to deep scenarios learning

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Book Reviews, Recommended, Strategy

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Book Review Strategic Reframing: The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach Rafael Ramirez & Angela Wilkinson Strategic Reframing, by Dr. Rafael Ramirez of Oxford Said Business School and Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Head of Strategic Foresight for the OECD, aims to provide the leading guide to scenario planning – with a particular focus on corporate strategy and public policy. Undoubtedly it is certain…
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Two tips for supercharging your career: communication and co-operation

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Exploration, Management, Media, Mining, Publications

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This week's Strictly Boardroom with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net looks to a couple of experts, one from inside and one from outside of the mining sector, for tips on how to supercharge your career. Roy Woodall, exploration icon and former head of exploration at Western Mining Corporation famously advised young geoscientists to improve their ability to upward communicate in organisations,…
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Generic strategies meets Fortescue Metals

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Media, Mining, Publications, Strategy

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This week's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net applies Michael Porter's 'generic strategies' to Fortescue Metals Group (FMG). So for subscribers interested in whether FMG follows a cost leadership, differentiated or focused strategy check out the article online. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our new book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II: A Practitioners Guide for…
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Starting a consultancy: baby steps to working for yourself

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Publications, Strategy

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Today's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net covers some hints and tips for getting a consultancy business started: "Starting a consultancy: baby steps to working for yourself". The article is available to subscribers. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our new book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II: A Practitioners Guide for Next Generation Directors” is out now and available…
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The Mining Boardroom: A Practitioner’s Guide for Next Generation Directors

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Book Reviews, Commodities, Exploration, Management, Mineral Economics, Mineral Policy, Mining, Publications, Recommended, Strategy

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In the winter edition of WA Director, the members' magazine of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Allan Trench and I were privileged to be able to submit a piece on our book: "Strictly (Mining) Boardroom - Volume II: A Practitioner's Guide for Next Generation Directors". The article took the format of an interview,…
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