New technology, are you aware of the risks?
To many it seems as if the rate of change of technology is accelerating, and people are starting to claim that it is posing an increasing challenge to business[1]. […]
Do you know you have a wicked problem and do you know how to solve it?
Oil & gas projects are some of the most complex in the world; they are often a series of interrelated problems which are increasingly difficult to solve. Bringing value and […]
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From cartels to perfect competition
When it comes to the oil price, an economist’s forecast is only as good as the next person’s guess … here at io, we take a look at the macro […]
Are you unknowingly destroying value with your capital value process?
Introduction In 2011 78% of upstream oil and gas megaprojects faced either cost or schedule overruns according to an industry study by the Independent Project Analysis (IPA); in 2014, […]
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How are you approaching lack of funding for Field Development?
Part 1: Project Finance Funding gap in an uncertain world
In 2016 the Deloitte Centre for Energy Solutions published a report [1] that predicted an anticipated CAPEX funding gap […]
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Lessons from the history books … how looking back can help us moving forward
The need for change and transformation in the way the oil and gas industry does projects has been io’s call to arms since its inception; it is precisely the reason […]
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How you can make your project greater than the sum of its parts
Systems thinking and systems dynamics are two key components to systems theory and have been the mainstay of many industries since the middle of the twentieth century. Systems thinking is […]
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How good is your decision making? … and are you certain about that?
At the very heart of being human is the ability to have rational thought and ultimately make decisions, whether it be the smaller every day decisions we may make without […]
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