18 Mar 8 Killer Ways to Apply Analytics in Oil and Gas
Many industries today benefit from applying analytics to their more vexing problems. Oil and gas will follow suit. This post was first published on October 22, 2016. Curious if I was right.
Many industries today benefit from applying analytics to their more vexing problems. Oil and gas will follow suit. This post was first published on October 22, 2016. Curious if I was right.
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.
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?
Many industries today benefit from applying analytics to their more vexing problems. Examples include life insurance companies who try to predict customer acceptance of new insurance products, retailers who predict the sales of new outlets, cable companies who try out new cable bundles, and food companies who plan menu choices (such as an all you can eat shrimp dinner special) based on expected availability of key commodities (like shrimp).
We're all in a brave new world of digital. Banks are converting us into our own bankers by putting banking apps on smart phones and tablets, airlines are turning us into check in counters, our phones are turning into our wallets and our doctors, our cars are becoming mobile hot spots, we can log in virtually anywhere and anytime on any number of devices. Consumer digital is impacting IT departments everywhere and in every field, from banking, retail, transportation, and the public sector.