Mining Practice — Pillar 2

Mining Operations Excellence

Field-tested operational advisory to lift productivity, control cost, and strengthen safety and reliability across mining operations — turning strategy into results that hold on the ground.

Who It's For

Built for Teams Accountable for Operating Performance


Target Profiles

  • Mining companies operating mines and projects in Côte d'Ivoire and West Africa
  • Investors and asset owners seeking an independent read on operating performance
  • Institutions and industry associations focused on operational and safety standards

Typical buyers: general managers, COOs, operations directors, and project development teams.

Priority Challenges We Address

  • Productivity and cost performance that lags plan or peers, without a clear diagnosis of why
  • Equipment, fleet, and asset utilisation below what the operation should sustain
  • Safety and operational risk that need a structured, independent review
  • Improvement initiatives that stall after the diagnostic phase, without implementation support
Value Proposition

Turn Diagnosis Into Results That Hold

StratBIC combines structured operational diagnostics with hands-on implementation support, so improvement plans for productivity, cost, and safety are not just recommended — they are executed and sustained.

What We Deliver

Four Clusters of Operational Services


01

Operational Diagnostics & Performance Management

  • Operational diagnostics to establish a clear, evidence-based view of current performance.
  • Mine planning and performance management to align operating rhythms with the plan.
  • KPI dashboards to track the indicators that matter to your operation.
02

Productivity, Cost & Asset Optimisation

  • Productivity and cost optimisation across the operation.
  • Equipment, fleet, and asset utilisation review to close the gap to sustainable capacity.
  • Maintenance and reliability improvement to reduce avoidable downtime.
03

Process, Safety & Contractor Performance

  • Process improvement across core operating workflows.
  • Structured safety and operational risk review.
  • Contractor performance review and supply-chain efficiency improvement.
04

Digital Enablement & Capability Building

  • Digitally enabled performance tracking to support day-to-day decision-making.
  • Implementation support to carry improvement plans through execution.
  • Continuous-improvement capability building within your own teams.
Engagement Formats

Illustrative Ways to Start


Operational Diagnostic

A focused diagnostic of a specific operating area — productivity, cost, safety, or asset utilisation — to establish an evidence-based baseline and improvement priorities.

Implementation Support Engagement

Hands-on support to implement an agreed improvement plan and build the internal capability to sustain it after StratBIC's engagement ends.

These are illustrative formats. [CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm standard engagement formats and indicative durations for a mining operations excellence engagement.] Actual scope and duration are agreed with each client during scoping.

How We Deliver

The StratBIC Method, Applied to Operations


01

Diagnose

Operational diagnostics establish a fact-based baseline — productivity, cost, utilisation, safety — before any recommendation is made.

02

Analyse & Model

Root-cause analysis and performance benchmarking turn the diagnostic into a prioritised set of improvement levers.

03

Decide

Improvement priorities and resourcing are worked through with your team and resolved into a committed action plan.

04

Execute & Sustain

Implementation support and KPI tracking carry the plan through execution and build the capability to sustain it internally.

This is the operations-specific expression of the seven principles behind the StratBIC method, detailed on our Our Approach page.

What We Need From You

Inputs to Get Started

  • Access to relevant operational and performance data
  • Site access and availability of operational teams for observation and interviews
  • Sponsorship from leadership to support implementation once a plan is agreed
Key Deliverables

What You Receive

  • An operational diagnostic report with a prioritised improvement plan
  • KPI dashboards for ongoing performance tracking
  • Implementation support and capability-building for your teams
Expected Outcomes

Performance Gains That Are Owned by Your Team

Qualitative outcomes StratBIC's operations work is designed to produce — not quantified guarantees.


Evidence-Based Priorities

Improvement effort focused on the levers the diagnostic shows matter most, rather than the ones that are easiest to discuss.

Plans That Get Executed

Implementation support designed to close the common gap between a good diagnostic and a plan that is actually carried out.

Capability That Stays

Continuous-improvement skills built within your own teams, so gains are sustained after the engagement ends.

Example KPIs a client might track (illustrative only)

Trend in equipment and fleet utilisation · trend in unplanned downtime · adherence to mine plan · trend in safety-relevant incidents · trend in cost per unit of output.

These examples illustrate the kind of value tracked in an operations engagement; StratBIC agrees specific targets with each client during scoping. Unverified performance figures are never presented as commitments.

Coming Soon

Case Study


[CONTENT REQUIRED: case study — Mining Operations Excellence engagement, pending client agreement to publish]
Frequently Asked Questions

What to Know Before We Talk


Do you work with mines already in production, or also projects under development?

Both. Operational diagnostics and performance management apply to producing mines, while planning and readiness reviews can support projects still under development. The right scope is set during the initial conversation.

What's the typical starting point for an operations excellence engagement?

Usually a focused operational diagnostic on the area of greatest concern — productivity, cost, utilisation, or safety — which then informs whether a broader improvement programme is warranted.

Do you provide technology or software as part of this service?

No. StratBIC is independent of any technology vendor, one of the seven principles behind our method. Digital enablement is addressed at the level of performance-tracking practice and capability, not through a proprietary platform or software brand.

How do you measure success on an operations engagement?

Against the KPIs and improvement priorities agreed with your team during scoping, tracked through the dashboards set up as part of the engagement — see the illustrative KPI examples above.

Can this run alongside a Mining Intelligence engagement?

Yes. The two pillars are designed to connect: market and risk intelligence often shapes where an operational engagement should focus, and operational data in turn sharpens ongoing monitoring. See Strategic Mining Industry Intelligence.

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Related Pages


Strategic Mining Industry Intelligence

The intelligence-focused counterpart to this pillar.

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AI for Business Transformation

How artificial intelligence strengthens operational decision-making, including in mining.

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Why StratBIC

The founder's credentials and experience behind this practice.

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Where AI Can Selectively Add Value

AI-Enabled Value — Operational & Maintenance Monitoring

One principle-level illustration of where an AI lens could sharpen operational monitoring under this pillar — not a named platform or vendor. See StratBIC's AI for Business Transformation practice for the full picture, including when AI is not the right tool.


AI-Enabled Value
Business Problem
Equipment and fleet utilisation is often reviewed only at periodic intervals, which can miss early signs of a developing issue between formal review cycles.
Proposed Use Case
AI-assisted pattern review of existing operational and maintenance data to flag anomalies worth an engineer's attention between review cycles — a principle-level capability, not a named platform.
Users & Accountable Owner
Client's maintenance/reliability lead, supported by the StratBIC operations advisor.
Data & Technology Prerequisites
Existing operational and maintenance data already collected by the client; no new sensors or platform implied.
Integration Needs
Feeds into the client's existing KPI dashboard and maintenance-review cadence.
Human Oversight
Flagged anomalies are reviewed by the client's engineering team before any maintenance action is taken; AI output is advisory only.
Privacy, Security & Responsible-AI Safeguards
Operates on the client's own operational data under the same confidentiality principle as the rest of the engagement; no vendor lock-in, consistent with StratBIC's independence principle.
Expected Value (Qualitative)
Earlier visibility of developing issues between formal review cycles.
Baseline & KPI
Illustrative examples, not commitments: time between an anomaly's first appearance in the data and its identification; trend in unplanned downtime.
Implementation Effort
Dedicated workstream — scope depends on the state of the client's existing operational data.
Limitations & Dependencies
Requires operational data of sufficient quality and history; does not replace scheduled maintenance or engineering judgment.
Non-AI Alternative
The standard periodic operational-diagnostic review remains fully available and is the default approach.

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