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Key performance indicators – an exercise in futility?

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Management, Media, Publications

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This week's Strictly Boardroom on MiningNewsPremium.net is on key performance indicators and the lessons we can learn from Communist booksellers. Intrigued? The article is available to subscribers online here. For keen followers of the Strictly Boardroom column, our new book “Strictly (Mining) Boardroom Volume II: A Practitioners Guide for Next Generation Directors” is out now and available as a hard…
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Beyond Fubar forecasts (MiningNewsPremium.net)

- By: John P Sykes
Posted in: Blog, Commodities, Mineral Economics, Mining, Publications, Recommended, Strategy

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To begin the new year, Allan Trench and I have published an article in his Strictly Boardroom column entitled "Beyond Fubar forecasts" resolving to  improve mining industry forecasting techniques. The article looks at some common flaws with forecasts using Donald Rumsfeld's admittedly hackneyed 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns' metaphor, before detailing six New Years resolutions to improve industry forecasting: 1)…
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