About Us
Partners for Improvement
Fulcrum Partners is a specialist management advisory business focussed on asset intensive industries and specialising in supporting businesses to maximise the performance of their physical assets.
We partner with businesses to identify opportunities and address performance gaps by developing solutions utilising a holistic approach to operations management and business improvement. We help build business capability to drive implementation and deliver sustainable transformational results.
Our Competitive Edge
The founders have over 60 years of resource industry experience and specialise in the building and delivering of transformative improvement programs across mining and mineral processing value chains
We bring a toolkit of systems and processes that can be adapted for commodity and operating context
Our experience working inside large and small organisations means we understand the requirements and complexities required to make and sustain step change improvements
The team bring global and multi commodity experience. We understand challenges associated with operating in remote locations in diverse geographic settings
Our Services
Business Transformation
Structured approach to rapid business and operations improvement
Operational Readiness
Disciplined approach to ensure projects safely deliver the necessary organisational and asset capabilities for long term success
Asset Management
A suite of solutions that optimise whole of life cost and asset performance.
Risk Management
Processes that allow businesses to effectively manage asset related material risks to their business.
Business Transformation
A structured approach to rapid business and operations improvement that enables transformation by improving the speed and sustainability of value delivery. The process allows an organisation to prioritise the deployment of its scarce resources on the most valuable opportunities to improve its performance. To be successful, a transformation process must be owned and led by the business.
The Fulcrum Partners approach is designed to ensure that internal organisational expertise and capabilities are used to identify and generate business improvement initiatives which allow the organisation to meet its strategic business plan. Fulcrum Partners provides on the ground coaching and support to business leaders to design and deploy the appropriate processes and upskill the organisation with the necessary capabilities to deliver rapid improvement in a manner appropriate to the business context.
Operational Readiness
A tested approach to the preparatory activities required to safely deliver effective systems of work, competent people and reliable assets to maximise the business value from green and brown field projects.
Fulcrum Partners provides support and guidance in the design, development and implementation of the necessary systems, processes, organisational design and capability building required for successful project start up and transition to operations. The result is the successful transition of new assets from the project to operation including the delivery of sustainable organisational capability to operate and maintain the assets in line with the project objectives and overall business case.
Asset Management
In asset intensive industries the systematic management of an organisations assets to deliver its objectives requires the coordinated implementation of technical systems, integrated business processes, capable people, role clarity and the right leadership behaviors. Fulcrum Partners has extensive experience optimizing equipment performance, cost and risk with proven methodologies.
Our extensive suite of solutions extends from operating strategy development and zero-based budget models through to equipment strategy development, targeted reliability improvement and work management solutions using our Maintenance Productivity Program™️. These solutions combine to deliver improved maintenance outcomes that ultimately boost output and reduce costs.
Risk Management
Fulcrum Partners delivers a range of risk management tools and processes that allows organisations in asset intensive industries to manage hazards associated with health, safety, environment and asset integrity. Our asset integrity program allows organisations to manage asset related material risks to their business. Together with our sustaining capex optimisation program, Fulcrum Partners can help trade-off risk, production and all in sustaining costs associated with operating complex processing facilities.
Who We Work With
Leadership Team
Ian Cameron
Director
An executive level leader with over 25 years experience in mining and mineral processing operations. Specialising in asset management strategy development and delivery.
Gerard Flanagan
Director
An executive level senior business leader with over 30 years of experience in operational and functional leadership roles across multiple commodities. Specialises in operational excellence and business transformation.
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Fulcrum Partners is a specialist management advisory business focussed on asset intensive industries and specialising in supporting businesses to maximise the performance of their physical assets.