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 →
Last year, Allan Trench presented some ideas of ours, about the nature of collaborative, inter-disciplinary applied research to the Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC). The DET CRC is coming to the end of its excellent run of research (primarily in low-cost drilling technologies) helping mineral explorers in Australia tackle deep, under cover exploration, one of the critical… Read this post →
Catching up on April's Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net, we get to the 18th of the month, when we responded to a fairly solid piece on junior exploration investment in the 'West Australian' newspaper, at least within the constraints of what can be done in a sub-2 minute video: 1) check the money is going into the ground; 2) check… 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 →
