If you're interested in learning about Strategic Planning & Practice and are in or can get to Perth next week, I am proud to be helping Allan Trench teach a short course for professionals on the subject. It is run through the Australian Institute of Management (Western Australia) and The University of Western Australia Business School. Dates: 19-20 March or 30-31… 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 →
The F-word is focus. Rounding up the last of the Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net published in May we come to a plea for focus in mining industry management advisory. I quick browse of the consulting and advisory literature very quickly accumulates into a list of incoherent, jargon-inflected pieces of advice. Our view is to keep it simple. Focus on… 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 →
Tomorrow (6th August) I have invited Prof. Jim Everett of the University of Western Australia to speak about his paper in Applied Earth Science last year: "Paradigm Lost: Lessons learned from consulting for the mining industry and other industries". The seminar is free to attend and starts at 4pm in the Woolnough Lecture Theatre at the University of Western Australia,… Read this post →
