CANADA the ways of thinking and due diligence ” says Liezl van Wyk , Director Operational Excellence with SSR . “ It ’ s about creating different angles on problem solving and bringing in a new wave of discussion . It ’ s about our commitment to safety while leveraging and empowering our workforce .”
Van Wyk is no stranger to Operational Excellence , having spent the best part of her career looking at mining operations and creating ways in which businesses can enhance strategy and transform operating models through people , change management and technology to unlock greater value . Technology , as it is in most modern industries , continues to be one of the biggest drivers of change and SSR is no different . Van Wyk is a firm believer of using data and the accessibility of that data to quantify Operational Excellence . “ One of the very first projects that I oversaw was centred around becoming more disciplined on data and starting to increase the connectivity of our existing systems more ,” she says . “ Across the industry , businesses are becoming cloud based because it ’ s a very centralised platform in which you can access information from anywhere and make data available to whoever needs to consume it .”
“ We ’ re an asset-centric business , so all our decisions need to be around maximizing , optimizing and independently coordinating the flow of assets and how it hands over from one to the next .”
To this end , SSR built the necessary internal infrastructure that would allow the business to shift to this cloud-based platform where it makes sense . As a small , mid-tier company , SSR couldn ’ t
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