Performance
Technology & Innovation
The Technology & Innovation (T&I) group consists of a central team of technology professionals and a number of technology centres that develop leading practice and promote improved practice in mining and processing, asset management, strategic production planning, and project development, execution and evaluation. Emphasis is given to common and visible measures of operational effectiveness, the improvement of analytical tools and development of staff capability and effectiveness.
Most work is dedicated to current technologies and operations but a separate Innovation Centre focuses on step change innovation to confer competitive advantage in development of orebodies likely to be available to the Group in the future.
The total number of employees in T&I at year end was 351, compared with 378 at year end 2007.
Grant Thorne Group executive T&I, is based in Brisbane, Australia.
