If you're interested in learning about Strategic Planning & Practice and are in or can get to Perth next week, I am proud to be helping Allan Trench teach a short course for professionals on the subject. It is run through the Australian Institute of Management (Western Australia) and The University of Western Australia Business School. Dates: 19-20 March or 30-31… Read this post →
Last December we published a piece in the Strictly Boardroom column on how minerals exploration actually works. The piece came from discussions over whether minerals exploration strategy is planned or emergent (i.e. kind of opportunistic, evolutionary, and naturally forming). Exploration strategy is often portrayed as highly planned, i.e. you target a region and commodity, acquire the mineral titles, identify targets,… Read this post →
Myself and Allan Trench think a lot about assessing the quality of strategies in the mineral sector. In part, this is because it is comensurate with our role as lecturers on the MBA course at UWA, where we teach strategy courses for general business and specifically for the resources sector. However, MBAs are not an 'academic' qualification and as such,… 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 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 →
