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 →
Catching up on April's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNews.net we get to a special guest piece, with Alex Atkins on the continuing lack of women in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) minerals sector boardroom. A quick tally suggests only 7.7% of boardroom positions are held by women, across the top 150 largest minerals companies on the ASX. This suggests a… 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 →
After visiting a familiarly gender-unbalanced Mines and Money Conference in London a couple of week's ago, this week's Strictly Boardroom column with Allan Trench on MiningNewsPremium.net looks at the issue of 'women in mining'. After surveying the sector and finding the problem is far wider than UK-based mining conferences, the article considers two common objections (put forward by male industry… 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 →
