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, triggered by attendance at a UWA Business School event on the subject, Allan and I published some musings on shared values - the alignment between personal and corporate values. We're not formal experts on this subject, but as people active in business, and a business school, and predominatly in an industry (mining) were all sorts of discussions about… Read this post →
In late September we published one of my favourite articles of the year in the Strictly Boardroom column - a personal musing on the purpose of goals. In a journey through Eli Goldratt, Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Henry Mintzberg, Kees van der Heijden, Niccolo Machiavelli and some amateur psychology, we come to the conclusion that perhaps goals don't matter that… Read this post →
Today Allan Trench and I published an article on "The purpose of exploration and mining company boards" in his Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net. The article was based on an exercise run in one of our courses on 'Resource Sector Management' sourcing the opinions of Curtin University mineral economics masters and MBA students on what the key roles of mining… Read this post →
