Interview > Lara Bruhns, Newmont Australia
Targeted innovations are the name of the game for Lara Bruhns, General Manager of Operations Services for Newmont Australia. It’s about being sensible in your approach and not going high-tech simply for the sake of it.
Austmine sat down with Ms Bruhns ahead of her presentation at the Austmine 2017: Mining’s Innovation Imperative conference and talked about Newmont’s philosophy for harnessing technological innovation in a sensible and measured way.
Highlights include:
- Why change management is going to be a valuable skill to tomorrow’s miners
- What are these ‘targeted innovations’ that Newmont talks about?
- How has the mining sector changed over the past 20 years