13 Mar Digital blockers, barriers and solutions
The IEA recently asked me about what I saw as the key blocker and barriers to the digitalization of the oil and gas industry. Here’s my response.
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06 Mar Oil and gas: From Kobe Beef to Ground Chuck
The last several meetings that I’ve had with oil and gas industry executives have ended with a variation of the same question: now that we have reduced our costs to match commodity prices, how do we keep them from rising again?
27 Feb Digital strategies for field service companies
What should the digital strategy be for today’s oil and gas services companies, exposed and buffeted by unbounded cost and productivity pressures? Not your dad's gameplan, that's for certain.
21 Feb Four key trade offs in landing your digital strategy
As your oil and gas organization sets out its digital roadmap, you will have to make some trade offs around your focus of time, resources and areas of investment. Here’s a few of the key trade offs that have been the subject of my recent conversations with industry leaders.
13 Feb Canada’s LNG projects: Another year, another delay
When might Canada’s LNG projects get sanctioned? Potentially sooner than conditions suggest, with a good overhaul. Here’s why.
06 Feb Extract value from your #oil and #gas data assets
Is your oil and gas company sitting on a mountain of little-used data? What are 5 clever ways to leverage your digitized data assets?
30 Jan Board Conversations in #oil and #gas get interesting
With all that’s changing in global energy, board conversations around the top table at oil and gas companies should be pretty interesting. What are they discussing?
23 Jan Overcoming data challenges in #oil and #gas
Digital solutions aimed at oil and gas will struggle against deep-seated data challenges that plague the industry. What can be done about them?
16 Jan Collaborating for systemic change in #oil and #gas
What new disruptive business models will emerge that will drive powerful and systemic change in the oil and gas industry? What can oil and gas learn from other industries where collaboration is thriving?
09 Jan ERP’s future in a digital oil and gas world
Oil and gas companies have invested hugely in their enterprise resource planning (or ERP) technologies, but what is the future for these big backbone core systems in an increasingly digital world? This is the first in a multi-part series that will get under the covers of ERP systems and how they will evolve.