Major elements include articulating the vision, managing process interfaces, jointly mapping solutions, disciplined execution of plans and providing agile potential solutions to threats. It also includes the alignment of stakeholder plans and external agencies, operational management of real-time information and the escalation of performance data gap-closing initiatives, improvement studies, monthly plan threats, KPI alignment and reconciled forecasts. It is a vital step to harness the digital agenda in mining, because it:

• limits the effect of variability
• provides a rapid decision-making process to align business objectives within ever-changing constraints
• can seize value opportunities with certainty
• creates stable and predictable organizations