innovation Tag
06 Jul Are Gasoline Stations Doomed?
Have you ever wondered about the impact of digital technologies on gas stations? What’s to become of the thousands and thousands of gas stations in the low carbon future?
24 Jun How To Escape The Digital Pilot Project Doldrums
Many digital companies seem trapped in a never-ending cycle of pilot projects and trials with oil and gas companies that never progress beyond the pilot stage to full deployment. And that’s a shame for both.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
29 Jan Licking My Amazon-Wounded Pride of Place
Calgary didn't make it into the top 20 most attractive cities for the second HQ of the digital Goliath. What does this tell us about Calgary's brand and how it may need to change for a more digital future?
15 Jan Building and Testing Your Digital Innovation
Many of the digital innovations I've reviewed struggle to get to a customer trial. Why is that and what can be done about it?
20 Nov Digitalisation of Oil and Gas: Four Plausible Scenarios
Many in the oil and gas industry are wrestling with how their sector will shape up over the long term. How can scenario planning provide some insight for Boards and management?
31 Jul The Future of Work in Oil and Gas
It's not just robots applying for your jobs, writes Dominika Warchol Hann, in this week's post.A shrinking share of blue collar jobs and the increasing reliance on foreign outsourcing are driving political debate and making blue-collar-dependent companies take note. As you’ll soon find out, the prognosis is for these trends to not only increase, but to accelerate due to the rise new ways of working. These new ways of working include the increasing prevalence of automation, crowdsourcing, onshore outsourcing and offshore outsourcing.
12 Jun Turning Virtual Reality into Real Cash
Unless you’ve recently been hiding out in a sealed cardboard box (and not a Google Cardboard box at that), you’ll likely have heard of augmented reality and virtual reality; especially in their application as toys. But these virtual reality “toys” are being used to deliver real-world savings in the operations of oil and gas companies.
This special post was written by Dominika Warchol Hann.
15 May How cloud computing will transform oil and gas
I was asked recently about the likely impacts of cloud computing on the oil and gas industry. They’ll be rather transformative. Here’s why.
01 May Are gasoline stations doomed?
Have you ever wondered about the impact of digital technologies on gas stations? What’s to become of the thousands and thousands of gas stations in the low carbon future?
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?