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Plugging into mining CEOs

“WE NEED a change in the relationships and recognition of shared values between companies and contracting suppliers.” This is one of the key views espoused in a special report into innovation in mining.

Noel Dyson
Plugging into mining CEOs

The quote comes from South32 CEO Graham Kerr, one of the 15 key players in the mining industry sharing their insights with the Energy &Minerals Institute at The University of Western Australia and corporate strategist VCI. 

Those insights form the backbone of the CEO Insights – Mining 2016 report, which is available for purchase through MiningMonthly.com.

Beside Kerr, other mining leaders interviewed were Rio Tinto Iron Ore CEO Andrew Harding; MMG CEO Andrew Michelmore; Roy Hill CEO Barry Fitzgerald; Antofagasta Minerals CEO Diego Hernandez; former Hismelt Corp managing director Duncan Price; former Toro Energy chair Erica Smyth; Newmont Mining Corp CEO Gary Goldberg; Peabody Energy CEO Glenn Kellow; former BHP Iron Ore president Jimmy Wilson; former Ok Tedi Mining managing director Keith Faulkner; Rio Tinto director Megan Clark; Consolidated Minerals managing director Paul Muller; Dundee Precious Metals CEO Rick Howes; and International Council of Mining and Metals CEO Tom Butler.

There are only 200 individually-numbered copies of the report. A preview of it can be found here.

It touches on a raft of topics including the role of the CEO in making innovation flourish; the challenges of managing top down and bottom up innovation in large and small companies; how to manage innovation across different business cycles; and how mining companies and their suppliers have to work together to grow value rather than just focus on squeezing costs.

The report is a product of the Innovation:State of Play platform.

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