Lats week, I was invited to speak on "The current investment landscape for mining, exploration and mineral sands" at the 19th Australian Mineral Sands Conference here in Perth. The presentation explored three broad, global trends and their high-level impact on mining and exploration, with some further specific thoughts on mineral sands, in line with the conference theme. The three trends… Read this post →
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 →
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 year one of the article's we published in the Strictly Boardroom column was on 'social licence to operate'. It was based on some personal observations made at Perth Airport. The serious point underlying the article though was that with the social licence involving community connection it may be better approached from the bottom up rather than the top down… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I presented a paper at the AusIMM International Mining Geology Conference looking at the role of globalisation and sustianable development in the long term future of mining and exploration. In recent years, political opinion across the world has swayed back from globalisation towards protectionism and localism, whilst a focus on sustainable development seems to have switched… Read this post →
