STRATFLOW ARTICLES
Building the capability to consistently meet and exceed targets while increasing employee engagement and safety
1) Turning Mining Performance Around: Moving from Efficiency to Effectiveness- written with Professor John Blakemore and published in Australian Mining. The article deals with the hidden capacity that can be unlocked when switching focus from the efficiency of the parts to the effectiveness of the system. Read article.
2) Radical Innovation in Mining Management-written with Gary Wong and published in Austmine. This article generated over 20000 views and deals with the advent of the ecology age and the impact of Industrial Age management practices on financial outcomes and employee engagement. Read article.
3) Social Licence and Digitisation requires new thinking- AusIMM article that highlights the need for sorting out the mine system characteristics before trying digitisation. It highlights that digitisation on its own will not solve the problems inherent to the system. Read article.
4) A dual management operating system to enhance digitisation and automation in mining- published with Austmine. It highlights the need in mining for agility on top of stability. It is argued that the Stratflow productivity platform and flow room, using TOC improves on stability and adds agility. Read article.
5) How mining leaders can take charge to improve safety, productivity and reduce stress.- AusIMM article written with Paul Moynagh. It explains how buffers and protective capacity reduce production variability, increase output and lead to "Superflow in a spirit of calmness", and argues that this shifts the safety/productivity boundary outwards. Also see "enabling breakthrough safety, productivity and engagement in mining" on this page. Read article.
6) Taking the lead in the future of the workforce and digitisation- published in Australian Resources and Investment with Gary Wong. It highlights the need to revisit the Industrial Age foundations of current management practice to bring all in line with the ecological age. Read article.
7) Working smarter not harder- published in West Australian Chronicle. Highlights the benefits of focussing management activity on leverage points and enabling workers to work to their potential. Read article.
8) Enabling breakthrough safety, productivity and engagement in mining- draws on Rasmussen and Safety Differently to argue that a mine running in "superflow in a spirit of calmness" gives crews better conditions to work safely, and proposes the productivity platform as a way to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements while increasing productivity. Read article.
9) Dealing with the worldwide decline in mining productivity: A focus on the underlying paradigm and the ERP budgeting systems maintaining the decline. Read article.