Last October, we posted a Strictly Boardroom article on the subject of 'in-reach' i.e. the opposite of outreach. It just means bringing other stakeholders voices into the frame. This emerging, simple idea has great potential to both foster innovation and improve social licence in our industry. In the social licence arena, the problem with a corporate outreach approach (such as… Read this post →
Last October in the Strictly Boardroom column we considered the problem of why more Australian's don't do minerals industry PhDs, with a particular focus on geoscience in this case. Though initially this may seem a somewhat niche question, many key figures in the domestic exploration industry are PhDs (though you may not realise it). There is more to this than… 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 →
My PhD supervisor Allan Trench recently presented at the AMIRA Exploration Managers' Conference on "What are the elements of industry collaboration that have added value to exploration success?". The presentation covers the issue that whilst we know success in mineral exploration is the discovery of new high quality mineral deposits, and we have a bit of an idea about what best practice in… Read this post →
Last year I was pleased to accept a guest lecturing slot on Allan Trench's 'Strategic Management of Resources' Companies' course, which is part of the University of Western Australia's MBA programme. The presentation is available below and on my Slideshare and LinkedIn accounts. The presentation draws on an earlier presentation at Metal Pages Rare Earths conferences, with some new ideas… Read this post →
