The tailings management system and the geotechnical management system are siblings that too often operate in functional silos. Data Riders aligned both under a single governance logic: clearer roles, integrated systems and risk-oriented organization.
Objectives
- Align the tailings and geotechnical management systems to available best practices.
- Ensure effective governance and capacity to respond to emerging challenges.
- Reduce interface gaps between sibling systems.
- Connect functional design to corporate values and operational guidelines.
Applied approach
RASCI
Role and responsibility clarity across structures, with formal decision rules.
Systems integration
Connection across essential management systems that previously operated in functional silos.
Risk-oriented organization
Functional structure reorganized around critical controls and adverse scenarios.
Verified, source-backed facts
- The source deck explicitly frames the objective of optimizing the functional structures of TDMS (Tailings and Dams Management System) and GCMS (Ground Control Management System).
- Alignment targets include best available practices and the operator's own production system, values and goals, to ensure effective governance and strengthen response capacity to emerging challenges.
- Broader Data Riders governance material confirms the methodological ingredients: RASCI design, integration of essential management systems, and organizational changes oriented to risk.
Sources: v4 OS1 Data Riders.pptx; Data Riders website case material; data-riders.pdf governance process visuals.
Documented value
More robust governance and broader responsiveness to emerging operational pressures, with the tailings and geotechnical management systems recognized as complementary and orchestrated by a single management logic.
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Editorial note. Source material for this case is explicit on objectives and framing but does not include quantified outcomes. Specific performance metrics and post-implementation results will be added after client validation.