Rob Kelly (BP) chairs the newly founded IOGP Digital Transformation Committee (DTC) with help from vice chairs Keith Johnston (Chevron) and Milenija Stojkovic Helgesen (Equinor). According to the IOGP, emerging technologies are ‘creating new rules for businesses and transforming the entire energy industry at an unprecedented pace’. The DTC was founded to keep up with such advances deliver a roadmap for members ‘to navigate the numerous opportunities and challenges ahead’.
In what is billed as a ‘first’ for IOGP, an ‘agile’ approach will be used to speed delivery of its results. These are to include ‘insights and recommendations on key focus areas for digital transformation’, identifying the required digital skills (to be published as a ‘library of skills’) and selecting ‘relevant, high-impact digital personas on which to focus skills initiatives in the near term’.
To support the ambitious agenda, no less than four ‘expert groups’ will be formed. These are 1) an opportunities screening expert group (OSEG) to ‘groom the backlog’ of the IOGP’s digital opportunities, 2) a change management and strategic communications expert group (CMEG), 3) a digital skills expert group (DSEG) and 4) a digital platforms expert group (DPEG) to advise on infrastructure.
Comment: The ‘digital transformation’ trope continues to offer unlimited opportunities for ‘agile’ committee work. What it actually means has always been unclear. The IOGP already does a good job of publishing its plethoric reports via a ‘digital’ website in the form of ‘digital’ PDF documents. All of which can be searched ‘digitally’. ‘If it ain’t broke, done fix it’ comes to mind. An unrelated ‘digital transformation’ (of the EU’s CEN/CENELEC annual reports – which were previously PDFs) meant that the 2002 report is to be published as a dreadful (but ‘digital’) video! Please IOGP, don’t go there.
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