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 →
Earlier this year, Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) presented some of our thoughts on culture and leadership in minerals exploration at the AMIRA Exploration Managers' Conference. The few comments from historically successful mineral explorers, such as Roy Woodall and David Lowell, that are recorded in the literature suggest the culture and leadership are important. However, there seems to… 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 →
