Myself and Allan Trench think a lot about assessing the quality of strategies in the mineral sector. In part, this is because it is comensurate with our role as lecturers on the MBA course at UWA, where we teach strategy courses for general business and specifically for the resources sector. However, MBAs are not an 'academic' qualification and as such,… Read this post →
Last November, to assist with the MBA course at UWA we were teaching on 'Strategic Analysis and Consulting' we prepared an A to Z of 'must-know' subjects in the area of strategy and management in the minerals sector. How many do you know? Analysis, Alliances and Adhocracy; Behavioural economics, Biases and heuristics, the Boston Box (or the growth-share matrix), Big… 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 →
