talent Tag
19 Jul When Enrollments Collapse — The Talent Pipeline Dries Up
Enrollments at U Calgary’s school of engineering petroleum studies have collapsed. What does a future engineering talent shortage mean for Canada’s largest export industry?
12 Jul An Interview with Analise Thompson of Datagration
How do you build complex solutions for oil and gas that are so easy to use that training is almost unnecessary? That’s the question I posed to the Knowledge Manager at Datagration.
18 Jan Getting Help For Your Digital Transformation
Your digital transformation likely requires people with specific skills that are unlikely to be in your company. So what skills do you need and where do you find them?
30 Nov Virtual Training Comes To Digital Oil and Gas
With group gatherings out of the question, but with urgent business needs still calling out for attention, how do you deliver high quality training virtually? Here’s my formula.
16 Nov In Conversation with Bertrand Groulx
How can digital technologies transform the work of the front line oil field worker, who is overworked, underserved and under equipped to cope with the increased workload? Hear from Bertrand Groulx, a tech entrepreneur, financier and educator, about upgrading the job of the front-line worker.
31 Aug In Conversation with Brandon Ambrose, CEO of EZ Ops
I recently interviewed Brandon Ambrose, CEO of EZ Ops, a technology company, about the state of innovation in oil and gas for the front-line worker. This is an edited transcript of the interview.
24 Aug Stop Buying Digital. Start Being Digital
There is a difference between buying digital (the default position in oil and gas) and being digital (the default position of young people). Oil and gas must be digital to have any hope of attracting top talent in the future.
04 May What Digital Feels Like to an Oil and Gas Professional
Oil, gas and services companies intent on adopting digital (and that means all of you), should be helping their employees deal with some uncomfortable truths and deeply unsettling feelings.
02 Mar Tips on How to Do Digital Transformation
IBM held its annual ReInvention event in Calgary and asked me to provide the opening remarks, as scene-setting for the panel discussion that followed. In case you weren’t able to attend, here’s what I said.
03 Feb Interview with Cameron Barrett CEO of Field Safe Solutions
This is a transcript from a podcast I recorded with Cameron Barrett, CEO of Field Safe Solutions, on the power of digital innovations in helping with the safety of remote workers.
23 Dec Seasons Greetings from Digital Oil and Gas
As the thin Canadian winter sunlight lengthens the shadows of the north, it’s a fine time to settle down with a Dalwhinnie 15 year old single malt, reflect on the year just passed, and contemplate the year to come. For me and Digital Oil and Gas, 2019 has been a major year of product development.
03 Jun Debating the Merits of Digital at the Global Petroleum Show
I’m on a panel discussion at the Calgary Global Petroleum Show about the role of digital innovation in oil and gas. Here’s a snapshot of the kinds of questions I think the panel will address.
13 May Is It Game Over for Digital in Oil and Gas?
Is digital transformation all over in Alberta’s oil and gas industry? That seems to be the feedback some Alberta companies are giving to conference organizers. It couldn't be further from the truth.
11 Mar The Questions Students Have About Careers in Oil and Gas
What are today’s students asking about the future of work in oil and gas, and how should they prepare for a job world that will be very different?
11 Feb Learning to Trust Machines (A How-To Guide)
We don’t trust machines…and we will need to change that.
21 Jan Why We Don’t Trust Machines (And Why We Should)
The world of work is evolving, whether we like it or not, and we need to rethink our trust equation with our machines.