In the winter edition of WA Director, the members' magazine of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Allan Trench and I were privileged to be able to submit a piece on our book: "Strictly (Mining) Boardroom - Volume II: A Practitioner's Guide for Next Generation Directors". The article took the format of an interview,… Read this post →
Earlier in the year I was privileged to be asked by the University of Western Australia Business School to present to a group of visiting MBA students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. The talk had similar content to one given earlier in the year to students from the University of Alberta, however, with a bit more of… Read this post →
Earlier this year I was honoured to present a guest lecture to a group of MBA students from the University of Alberta visiting the University of Western Australia. Both states have major resource industries - oil sands for Alberta and mining and gas for Western Australia - so there was substantial interest in comparing the strategic approaches of both industriues.… Read this post →
The mining problem The period high commodity prices in the early 21st century has encouraged exploration for more mineral resources and attempts to develop new mines for most commodities. However, despite an apparent abundance of mineral resources in many commodities, the arrival of this new supply has often stalled. Increasingly mine projects are facing complex combinations of economic, environmental and… Read this post →
I'm really pleased to tell you that a team of University of Western Australia (UWA) MBA students has won a prestigious international competition about applying sustainable development principles to the mining industry - the Schulich International Case Competition, this year with finals in Canada, associated with the PDAC conference. The team consisted of Matthew Horgan, Jessica Harman, Jessica Volich and… Read this post →
