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28 Nov Specific Actions Managers Take To Drive Digital Adoption
Leaders lead by example, but what does that mean for the manager or supervisor of an oil and gas asset tasked with embracing digital?
31 Oct Turning Tricks Into Treats – All Hallows’ Digital Oil and Gas
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, when demons come assailing your door. In oil and gas demons can visit anytime. Turn those digital tricksters into digital treats....
24 Oct Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas Becomes Urgent
Digital transformation has been sweeping across society for over a decade now, and has finally arrived in oil and gas. Our sluggish response so far needs a boost of urgency.
15 Aug Train Your Front Line Worker On Digital To Boost Your Success
The front line worker in oil and gas has been overlooked in the drive to bring digital innovation to the industry. We need to fix that.
01 Aug 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?
17 Jan Defuse These Digital Oil and Gas Time Bombs
Digital innovations are setting up a number of time bombs that will eventually go off. Now is the time to defuse them before it’s too late.
03 Jan Digital Oil and Gas Trends for 2022
Here are five trends in the use of digital technologies in oil and gas that will continue unabated in 2022. Number four is my favorite.
13 Dec Holiday Wish List for Oil and Gas Executives
It’s that time of the year when oil industry executives pin their stockings by the gas fireplace and drift off to sleep dreaming of Santa. Here’s their secret holiday wish list.
01 Nov Turning Tricks Into Treats – All Hallows’ Digital Oil and Gas
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, that time of the year when demons come assailing your door. In oil and gas demons can visit anytime. Here’s how oil and gas can turn their digital tricksters into digital treats.
23 Aug Tips on How to Do Digital Transformation
If you’re involved in leading a digital drive at your company, you may be interested in these handy tips for successfully driving change.
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.- 1
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