Blog
27 Aug When Life Imitates Digital – Blockchain Insights
Sometimes the parallels between your day-to-day life and your workaday career are eerily curious. Take my recent day in Banff and the way blockchain technology is evolving.
20 Aug How to Review a Digital Strategy
Recently a company asked me to carry out an independent review of their digital strategy and to suggest possible improvements. Here’s how I approached it.
13 Aug A Unifying Framework for Digital in Business
Is there a unifying model to help decision makers sift their way through the digital echo chamber? Here’s my version.
30 Jul Build Your Start up with Creative Destruction Lab
This past year I’ve had exposure to various technology incubators and ˙accelerators. One of the most impactful has been the Creative Destruction Lab. Here’s why.
23 Jul Your Next CoWorker Could Be a Bot
Are you wondering what a bot is and whether the bots are gunning for your job? Read on.
25 Jun The Three Ways AI Will Impact Oil and Gas
A journalist contacted me this week to ask my perspectives on how artificial intelligence would impact oil and gas. Here’s broadly what I sent back.
18 Jun Oil and Gas Trade Show Leaves Me Wanting
I went to the Global Petroleum Show with high digital hopes, and came away pretty disappointed. The vast majority of suppliers to the industry are just not in the game.
11 Jun Agile – How Digital Gets Done
One word that does not describe the oil and gas world is “agile”. Why is being agile suddenly something that the industry aspires to?
28 May The Promises and the Problems of the Internet of Things
One of the oldest ideas in industrial automation is to hook up some device to a computer system to keep an eye on it remotely. What happens when we scale this idea up?
14 May The Power Industry’s Killer App – Blockchain
Block chain could be a new killer app for the power utility sector. It will either kill the industry, or will be used by the industry to kill.
07 May Setting Business Goals in the Digital Era
Boards in oil and gas must now take into account the wave of digital change that is impacting the sector, and help shape appropriate goals for management.
30 Apr Managing the Risks of a Digital Transformation
Embarking on a digital transformation journey in oil and gas is not an easy matter. There are many risks to be managed. Here's a few of the biggest.
23 Apr Cyber Security Starts at the Edge
Cyber attacks are clearly a concern for consumer-oriented businesses, but what is the risk to oil and gas? Should we be concerned? Hell, yes.
16 Apr Improving the on-line art transaction experience
Is there a way to apply digital innovation to make buying and selling art a much more pleasurable experience? Yes, and I'm part of a start up with that goal in mind.
09 Apr How to Successfully Introduce AI Into Oil and Gas
As the oil and gas industry slowly explores artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, it will have to confront critical management issues that hinder faster and more impactful adoption.
26 Mar The Impact of Digital on Oil and Gas Work
We all have an uneasy sense that jobs are changing rapidly, thanks to digital, but what will be the future of oil and gas work in an increasingly digital world?
19 Mar What cars on blockchain will do to fuel retailing
A German automaker has wrapped up some trials integrating blockchain technology with its sports car line. What lessons does this offer the oil and gas industry?