Last November, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on mineral sector excellence. It was based on a panel discussion held at 'Breakfast by the Bay' hosted by UWA Business School. The panel consisted of financier and director, Michael Anderson (Taurus Funds and Hot Chili), mining geologist, engineer and director, Alex Atkins (AusIMM and Alex Atkins & Associates), Vice-President of Geoscience… Read this post →
Last August, we published a pair of articles on Strictly Boardroom about business model innovation, in both mining and universities (with a fcous on applied resource sector research) inspired by the anniversary of The Beatles groundbreaking 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album. This album not only included a number of 'technical' innovations, but led to a business model innovation… Read this post →
I'm proud to be teaching on the Executive Education 'Strategic Planning and Practice' course run by the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School and the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia (AIM WA). The course is headed up by Allan Trench and runs over two days on 11-12 July, at the AIM WA in Perth. It costs A$2,420 for… Read this post →
This month I've published an article in the online magazine 'Resource Global Network'. The article is entitled "Is your company capable of surviving a commodities bust?" and can be viewed online for free here. The article looks at the different areas of excellence and innovation that resources companies will need to pursue to ride out the downturn, including operational, technological… 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 →
