Hendrik Lourens

Sydney, NSW Australia

Director ▶ Consultant ▶ Author ▶ Speaker | Improving Productivity, Leadership Performance, Sustainability

Consulting / Advisory

WORLDWIDE MINING PRODUCTIVITY IS DOWN BY 29% OVER THE LAST DECADE, according to a 2015 McKinsey Report. Ernest and Young recently interviewed more than 60 mining executives and identified the difficulty managers face in managing holistically as the cause. We need to manage interdepartmental coordination, (team) learning and enable effective leadership to achieve this. HOW DO WE ADDRESS PRODUCTIVITY CONTRACTION before it strangles revenue and closes operations? According to Systems Thinker Russel Ackoff, if you optimize a system, you will sub-optimize one or more components. On the other hand, if you optimize all the elements of a system, YOU WILL SUB-OPTIMIZE THE SYSTEM. Most interventi