E-business, mining and strategy.

One of the impacts of electronic business is that information-based processes can be separated from the physical processes they support or augment. To look at the mining industry from an electronic business perspective requires examining the mining and metals value chain to distinguish which information can be exploited to competitive advantage; such information may be geological, logistical or to do with costs or material technologies. All supporting businesses and organisations should also be identified. Electronic business will allow the mining industry to eliminate limitations based on geographical or organisational distance, to pool resources or requirements, to co-ordinate supply chains and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of communications.
One of the impacts of electronic business is that information-based processes can be separated from the physical processes they support or augment. To look at the mining industry from an electronic business perspective requires examining the mining and metals value chain to distinguish which information can be exploited to competitive advantage; such information may be geological, logistical or to do with costs or material technologies. All supporting businesses and organisations should also be identified. Electronic business will allow the mining industry to eliminate limitations based on geographical or organisational distance, to pool resources or requirements, to co-ordinate supply chains and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of communications.