Step 3 of 10 Operating model · Operations · Gold Fields

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Capabilities Block 3 of 10

The distinctive abilities your Operations team uses to deliver its services. These become the spine of every process, role, and KPI that follows.

Method 8 drafted 6 capabilities from your mandate, mining-operations industry baseline, and 3 reference docs. 4 approved, 2 still in review, 1 new proposed.
3.2 Core capability 87% confident In review

Operational performance management

Daily and weekly tracking of safety, throughput, quality and cost against targets — with closed-loop response when variance exceeds tolerance.

Owner Priya Iyer
Target maturity 5 Optimising
Current 2 · Reactive
AI suggestion · needs your call
Potential overlap with 3.4 Daily operating discipline
Both capabilities mention closed-loop response to variance. Consider either merging them or making 3.4 a sub-capability of this one.
Sub-capabilities 3 defined · 1 AI-suggested
Daily performance review Variance investigation Closed-loop response Short-term re-planning (AI suggests)
Comments 2 unresolved · show resolved
Marcus Chen · 2 days ago
Should we split daily performance review from the weekly plan-of-the-week? They're owned by different leaders today.
Priya Iyer · yesterday
@Adetola agree with Marcus — and I think we need an explicit short-term re-planning capability for grade variability.
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