Never ones to miss a passing bandwagon, earlier in the year we wrote a Strictly Boardroom column on digital currencies. As this was not an obvious area of our expertise we recruited some help from Dr Dick Baur - a finance expert focused on markets, who has written extensively on the machinations of the gold and bitcoin markets. Whilst recognising… Read this post →
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 →
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 November, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on 'corporate culture' as part of a wider self-lead study of a subject which keeps popping up in our business and academic lives. As a starting point, before jumping into the serious reading, we reflected on some of the organisational cultures we'd come across in the minerals industry and academia: Egocentric -… Read this post →
