Blog
07 Jan Disrupting the Alberta Business Model Through Digital
How susceptible is the Alberta business model to disruption from digital innovation? Pretty susceptible, it turns out.
24 Dec Season’s Greetings – Merry Christmas – Joyeux Noel
I wish all my readers a very Happy Holidays and the best for 2019!...
17 Dec Data Wars – The New Digital Battleground in Oil and Gas
Data is emerging as the new unspoken battleground for oil and gas supremacy. Why is this happening and should it be a concern?
10 Dec Survey Your Organization for Digital Readiness
How do you know if your organization is ready to embark on changes enabled by digital innovation? Why not collect some data?
03 Dec Bits, Bytes, and Barrels—The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas
The oil and gas industry has moved decisively beyond peak oil, resource scarcity and rising prices, to a new era of abundance and price pressure. With my co-author, Rachael Goydan, I have written a new book,“Bits, Bytes, and Barrels”, about leveraging digital innovation to cope with these fundamental shifts in business models.
26 Nov Why AI Won’t Fly in Oil and Gas and How To Give It Wings
Algorithms, a kind of artificial intelligence, are going to struggle to get off the ground in oil and gas. Here’s why, and what management can do to give AI wings.
19 Nov Digital and the Geopolitics of Oil
Oil is used by some nations to project influence and power, and is a national security concern for most others. How does digital innovation alter the oil-infused geopolitical landscape?
05 Nov Visual Analytics Comes of Age
What if a sensor could not only record purely visual activity in the real world, but could also interpret and then take action based on what it sees? Could this capability be exploited in oil and gas?
29 Oct Digital Oil and Gas Still in Early Innings
The oil and gas industry is clearly into digital innovation, but if this was like a baseball game, what inning are we in?
22 Oct Digital Innovation on a Shoestring Budget
What can small and medium-sized upstream oil and gas companies do to take advantage of a more digital world, if anything?
15 Oct Throw These Oil and Gas Orthodoxies Into The Bin
Digital innovations are upending some of the most deeply held and long standing orthodoxies of our modern life. Many of the orthodoxies in oil and gas are ready to tumble.
24 Sep Why Are We Still Training Humans to Operate Dirt Machines
I was watching some training videos this week featuring augmented and virtual reality, and concluded that the initiative and the technology were no longer on the right track.
17 Sep Revamping Your Career for Digital Oil and Gas
Once a week (it seems), someone asks me how they can transition their oil and gas career into digital. As a public service, here’s my thinking on this problem.
10 Sep Pipe Dream – Digital Innovation in the Pipeline Sector
Pipeline companies lag other network asset operators in adopting the digital innovations that lead to greater autonomous operations. That could change.
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.