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 October, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on the 'future of work' (currently a hot topic) in Australia. Australia is often referred to as the 'Lucky Country' after Donald Horne's 1964 book.* Many books and articles on Australia thus play on the theme of luck. One of these was "When the Luck Runs Out – The Future for Australians… Read this post →
The final presentation I made in 2017 was at Mines and Money in London, and the first on behalf of Richard Schodde and MinEx Consulting. Many of the companies and analysts at the conference were focused on the battery metals industry. In line with this, I was invited to give an overview of the graphite industry, its role in the… 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 →
In November last year I presented an overview of my PhD research and 'journey' at the school postgraduate symposium. The unofficial title was "My PhD Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mining". The more formal title for my PhD research is "Using scenario planning to improve the integration of geological, technical, economic, environmental, geopolitical, and socio-political factors… Read this post →
