Dec 17, 2025
Have you ever given thought to the possibility that the suppliers of your core business technology, brands like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, might simply turn you off with no warning?
It sounds fanciful, absurd, a black swan event so far beyond any reasonable risk matrix as to be unworthy of consideration.
Yet it...
Dec 10, 2025
Most large enterprises rely on a handful of expansive technology platform solutions to run their business, and the most prominent and widely deployed in oil and gas is SAP. As I’ve outlined in my books, enterprise solutions such as SAP are also migrating to digital technologies, which triggers a major question: what...
Dec 3, 2025
Motors are the quiet workhorses of industry. They drive pumps, fans, compressors, and heaters, and they consume more than sixty percent of the power in most industrial operations. When operators need to control motor speed, they historically relied on mechanical adjustments or trial-and-error testing to keep processes...
Nov 26, 2025
Canada’s energy sector has long struggled with low productivity on the front line, as indeed the entire Canadian economy. Despite heroic efforts by tradespeople, their effectiveness is hamstrung by badly dated processes, old disconnected systems, and paper-based workflows.
The problem isn’t the workers. It’s that...
Nov 19, 2025
Oil and gas companies are finally confronting
the huge communications and
stakeholder challenge they face with their asset
owners and stakeholders.
Production assets such as oil and gas wells almost
always have many part owners (land owners, JV
partners, interest-holders, trusts, first nations tribes). Managing
these...