About the Author Dutch Holland, PhD & Jim Crompton, MS ENG are highly regarded as "thought leaders" and as consultants who will tell it like it is. The authors' collaboration combines management consulting experience in upstream with oil & gas domain expertise into important insights about creation of business value from digital technology. Jim and Dutch are both convinced that the Digital Engineer concept must be made a reality or the Big Crew Change will likely result in both "outdated roles" and replacements that may "fit the roles but not the digital future of the upstream business"
F**R
Super interesting
Super interesting
P**X
read the first few chapters...
I found this book very interesting, particularly in the earlier chapters when the authors described Digital Engineering and its challenges and opportunities. Using a theater analogue was interesting and helped convey many of the concepts. Towards the later chapters I felt the book had strayed into a pure change management descriptor and there are many other examples of change management literature out there that cover a similar topic. That said, looking at change through a digital engineering perspective is helpful and there is so much more work to be done to realize the value from this discipline. A good effort. I do recommend the first half-dozen chapters...
M**K
Four Stars
excellent resource for oil & gas engineers. Writing style somewhat amateurish at times however.
E**Y
The Future Belongs to the Digital Engineer is a must read for anyone trying to better understand next generation engineering!!
Excellent book! Jim Crompton is extremely knowledgable about all things associated with the digital oilfield. This book provides a ton of insight from years of research on how things work out in the field in upstream oil and gas. The helpful checklists at the back of the book are great accelerators for getting started!
K**Y
why digital engineers could have the most exciting role in the future oil and gas industry
"The future belongs to the digital engineer", a new book by Houston oil and gas change management consultant Dutch Holland and former Chevron IT advisor Jim Crompton, explains why the most exciting role in the future oil and gas industry might be the digital engineer - or the people who get digital technology working properly in oil and gas companies.A digital engineer could come from either an IT, engineering or operations background, but the critical thing is that they understand how to implement digital technology - a major challenge in itself, which also requires an understanding of how the organisation works, what digital technology can do, and where digital technology can add value.Mr Holland and Mr Crompton argue that the future oil and gas industry will be far less reliant on highly expert superstars than it has been in the past.Projects will become so varied and complex that expertise on one project will not be particularly useful on another. This will probably mean that if people have gathered a large amount of expertise, they might find that much of it cannot be applied to the next problem they work on.Instead, the industry will be reliant for more on collective knowledge and collaborative working - and the supporting data management tools - to get the work done.But you shouldn't underestimate the challenge of implementing new technology, they say, and in particular, data management is much harder than you think.As well as explaining the digital engineer's role and why it is important, the book serves as a comprehensive reference manual for how to be one, including step by step advice on tasks such as communicating the vision of digital engineering, how to change work processes and procedures, how to change your facilities and equipment, how to change performance management, and how to lead projects.It should prove worthwhile reading for anyone considering working in the oil and gas industry on the digital side - or developing their current role to take more of a digital engineering slant to it.There are not many people (if any) with the job title "digital engineer" in the oil and gas industry, but a fast growing number of individuals who fulfil this role, involved in implementing digital technology.Dutch Holland, based in Houston, is a specialist in change management and organisational project management.Jim Crompton, based now on Colorado, is a former senior advisor for upstream IT, i-field adviser and manager of organisational capability at Chevron, and a 37 year Chevron veteran.In their book, Mr Holland and Mr Crompton describe 5 levels of maturity for digital technology implementations at oil and gas companies.If you implement digital technology by finding some exciting technology then looking for someone in the oil company who agrees to let you try it, you're at level 1.If the process starts with the operations department saying they need some technology, and technology department providing what they think they want, then you're at level 2.If the operations department starts by making a specific request for technology - and the technology department deliver what is specifically asked for, then you try to get everyone to use it, you're at level 3.If you are at any of these 3 levels, you're actually losing money, Mr Holland and Mr Crompton believe. That is to say, your project will not deliver enough benefits to cover its costs.You might make a small return on your project if you start with a specific request from technology from the operations department, and the operations department designs new work processes to go with it, and gets the organisation prepared to use it. This is level 4.But to make the real returns, you probably need digital engineers as an intermediary between the operations and technology departments - who have a comprehensive understanding of the business processes, and can work out if the proposed digital technology can add value to them. The digital engineers can make sure the technology implementation works - by getting it properly configured (working with the technology department) and getting the organisation fully prepared for it.The book is available in Amazon.com for $15.25 (paperback) and $11.25 (Kindle edition).
W**I
Developing the Digital Engineer and the O&G organization to deliver business value.
“The Future Belongs to the Digital Engineer – Transforming the Industry” by Dutch Holland and Jim Crompton offers some very clear ideas on how the new engineers entering the workforce, with their very high digital literacy, along with their traditional discipline knowledge can be developed in to Digital Engineers that consistently deliver business value.This book sets out the context and importance of the emerging Digital Engineer, and a comprehensive roadmap on how to develop them and the organization to support their work within the organization.The book makes clear that developing a Digital Engineer is much more than a good Petroleum Engineer using the available Information Technology. It is the integration of the four disciplines: Engineering, Science, Information Technology and Business Process Improvement that creates the value.Fully developed, a Digital Engineer is, as the book states, “an energy professional who is adept using petroleum engineering, information technology and process improvement to create business value.”One of the compelling themes of the book is the critical role that the Digital Engineer will play in meeting the challenges of the big crew change which is now upon us, and will dominate workforce challenges over the next decade.The enduring challenge for companies is connecting the best technology to the organizations work processes in order to produce business value; creating a rewarding environment for their staff and superior results. This book by Dutch Holland and Jim Crompton provides some big ideas and a roadmap of how to meet that challenge.
A**R
Five Stars
Insightful and helpful as we transform to a data driven organization
T**Y
Has noting to do with oil
Has noting to do with oil
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