Earlier in the year I presented a paper at the AusIMM International Mining Geology Conference looking at the role of globalisation and sustianable development in the long term future of mining and exploration. In recent years, political opinion across the world has swayed back from globalisation towards protectionism and localism, whilst a focus on sustainable development seems to have switched… Read this post →
Earlier in the year, we published a pair of Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net looking at the flaws of typical 'rationalist' strategic planning and then some alternatives to this way of doing strategy. Rationalist strategy is that developed by the likes of Frederick W. Taylor, Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, microeconomists, game theorists and the likes of McKinsey & Company and… Read this post →
Earlier this year, we were proud to help University of Western Australia MBA student, Laurent Barrere present his coursework on Fortescue Mining Group (FMG) and Western Australian (WA) iron ore, as a paper at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) Iron Ore Conference in Perth. Although locally focused the research is an excellent study on the challenges of… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I was invited to participate in the Oxford Futures Forum (at Oxford University). This unusual event aims to bring together an ecletic group of people to use scenario planning and related strategy techniques to generate new solutions to challenging problems. The theme this year was the "Oxford Scenario Planning Approach and the Climate Imaginaries of the… Read this post →
Continuing our catch up with this year's Strictly Boardroom columns on MiningNews.net. We now do a lot of work with the MBA students at the University of Western Australia. For these students, job interviews are never far from the mind, so in July we published an article with a few personal tips on job interviews, entitled "Candour in candidature: Top… Read this post →
