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Key performance indicators – an exercise in futility?

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

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This week's Strictly Boardroom on MiningNewsPremium.net is on key performance indicators and the lessons we can learn from Communist booksellers. Intrigued? The article is available to subscribers online here. 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 as a hard…
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Why technology is unlikely to displace your job anytime soon

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

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This week’s Strictly Boardroom article takes a counter-view as to why technological advancement may not take your job as soon as is predicted by considering the ways in which technology and bureaucracy interact. Technology is not the future, it is simply part of the future, and always has been. Those that work with technology thrive, those that work against it do…
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Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mining, Publications, Recommended

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Continuing the catch up on presentations made last year, below is one on "Non-technical risks and their impact on the mining industry" made at the AusIMM Monograph 30 (Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve Estimation) Roadshow. The presentation was based on a paper written with Allan Trench and Dan Packey for the AusIMM Monograph 30, which was released in early 2014.…
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