With the COVID-19 crisis, the global mining industry faces significant challenges and opportunities. What interventions can return the South African mining industry to its previous competitiveness and growth?
Business leaders should rely on constraint-based thinking--framing issues as optimization problems--to successfully navigate the current global crisis and future unexpected events.
Building resilience—through profitable growth, productivity, and a commitment to full-cycle planning—is the only reliable way to achieve long-term value creation.
Radical technologies are upending the mining value chain. What actions can companies take today to secure a place in a fast-moving industry with an unclear future?
Think coal is history? Think again. Coal demand is likely to hold steady in the years ahead. The implications—for companies, for investors, and for climate change—are huge.
Steel producers don't increase their profitability by adding value to their products. But if they abandoned the practice, they'd risk their very existence.
Manufacturers can implement win-win actions in their production and logistics operations that benefit the environment and create financial value.
To make sustainable gains in efficiency, asset-intensive producers of metals need to promote flexibility throughout the organization.
The sustainability imperative could erode demand for metals and mining companies’ offerings. To survive in the long run, companies must master three strategies.
Mining and metal companies need to find ways to adapt to calls for greater sustainability.
How will the sustainability agenda affect the mining and metal industry? Steel can be used as a proxy to explain likely developments.
