Module 1 – What is Digital?

• Digital definitions, terminology and illustrations
• Key drivers of digital innovation
• A framework for structuring digital innovations in context
• The leading digital technologies and their emerging oil and gas use cases
• Case examples of specific combinatorial digital innovations and impacts
   

Module 2 – The Impacts of Digital on industry segments

• Key orthodoxies of the industry that digital transforms
• Reviews of the impacts of digital innovation on segments of the industry

Module 3 – Management Challenges

• Organizing a team to tackle digital transformation
• Digital risks to be managed
• Talent management and skills required
• Addressing the challenges of change management
   

Module 4 – Moving Forward 

• The business case for digital innovation
• Strategic planning methods for approaching digital innovations

Digital Definitions

• International Energy Agency, Cisco, IBM
• The growth of data
• Power of analytics
• Expanding telecommunications
• Moore’s law
• Metcalfe’s law
• Market capitalization of digital companies
• Framework for digital innovation
   

Data

• Importance of data to digital 
• Data types
• Oil and gas issues with data
   

Internet of Things

• Use cases
• Architectures
• SCADA and IoT
• Developments
   

Artificial Intelligence

• Definitions – AI, ML, deep learning
• Role of AI in the future
• Use cases in oil and gas – maintenance, field operations, optimization
   

Automation

• Robots in the field and office
• 3D printing and impacts on oil and gas
• Use cases – submersible, inspections, surveillance, data collection
   

Cloud Computing

• Types of clouds – private, hybrid
• Role of cloud computing
• Impacts of cloud computing on oil and gas business models

Blockchain

• Definitions, examples
• ATOMIC – asset, trust, ownership, money, identity, contract
• Role of blockchain in oil and gas
• Use cases – VAKT, tracking, carbon
   

Business issues and digital solutions in the oil and gas value chain

• The Oil and Gas Industry Process Model
• Upstream – conventional, unconventional, on-shore, off-shore
• Midstream – processing, pipelines, transportation
• Downstream – refining, wholesaling, retail
• Capital projects – planning, execution
• Turnarounds and shutdowns 
• Functions (HR, supply chain, finance)
• Services – field services and support 
   

Management issues in digital

• IT, OT and digital team design
• Risks to be managed – cyber, security, data, policy, technology
• The Risk Matrix for Digital
• Management of change process and implementing digital change
• Agile versus waterfall methods
• Importance of user experience and design
   

Talent issues in digital

• Availability of talent
• Creating trust in digital
• Leadership of human change
• Talent attributes of the future
   

Digital strategy

• Setting a north star heading for digital innovation
• Confronting industry norms and practices that digital can impact
• The Strategy Cascade by Roger Martin
• Examples of digitally driven strategy – Rio Tinto
• Determining the business case for digital