Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2020

User Community Developments, Part XXXIII

The one upside that our user community and service providers will be able to count on when they commit to People, Ideas & Objects is that we’ve eliminated all of the business risk associated with their move from oil and gas to this new industry configuration. We need people to be involved in this initiative and we need large numbers of people in order to ensure that we complete the task from all areas of administration and accounting in the industry. The only way this can be done is to secure the budget for People, Ideas & Objects in advance of any work being started. And that is exactly what we’re doing. The time spent fooling around by bureaucrats has taken us into a situation where the industry and service industry, as well as the general economy, have been put in dire need of help. Much as we would like to trust our alleged customers we know they hold the attention span of mosquitoes. We would just be getting started and they would see an entire weeks uptick, that’s five consecutive days, in the oil price and cancel these software developments as they would deem them to be unnecessary. As a result effectively killing this initiative permanently. We documented the treatment of ERP software developers over the past three decades by oil and gas producers. This is listed on page 18 of our White Paper “Profitable, North American Energy Independence -- Through the Commercialization of Shale.” And lastly with the scope and scale of this project we are unable to fund the project ourselves, however need to since the majority of the producers are on a greater than 18 month accounts payable schedules. Therefore once we have our full budget in hand the user community member will be able to transition with reduced business risk and can then provide their full commitment to the project.

We have seen the extent of our good friends the bureaucrats' apparent need to destroy everything that’s in front of them. We have also seen their inability to deal with People, Ideas & Objects since 2003. They’re not interested in building profitable businesses as we are. They would conspire to derail our initiative in the many ways that they’re familiar with value destruction. Just as they’ve derailed and devastated the landscape in oil and gas. We can not afford to risk the user community to this well documented bureaucratic tendency in a naive or trusting manner. They will not be the ones who are forwarding the funds to People, Ideas & Objects. People have ceased to believe, care or take the time to listen or understand those that are and have been in power in the oil and gas industry. It may now seem that all the doors that were once open to producers at one point in time have been slammed shut. The reality is that their opportunities have been closing down since the decline in natural gas prices, as a result of shale, over a decade ago. Investors, bankers and others have seen enough on the natural gas side over this past decade, they didn’t need to know more. It just takes a while for the bureaucrats to run around and test each door for any lingering opportunities. Last week when Occidental turned to investors to step in and help them with the debt they’ve committed to, I thought that this was the height of hypocrisy, boldness and obtuseness. And maybe the end.

Producers will need to become used to this form of transaction very quickly. It won’t be just ourselves that demand cash upfront before any work gets done. After destroying the industry, and the service industry in an even more comprehensive manner, no one will be coming to their financial rescue either. The key difference is that none of their decline was anything to do with their management. To conduct any field operations or get anything done the producers will need to be paying in advance until they can reestablish their trust and good governance with those that they conduct business with. Give it a decade or so before you even try I would suggest. The abuse and destruction of the service industry is the legacy of the existing producers and they will need to deal with this very soon. $18 / barrel of oil should help out tremendously here.

Switching topics now from our budget funding dynamics to communications throughout the user community. We find during this time of self isolation, advantages to the methods of organization that People, Ideas & Objects our user community and their service provider organizations are building. There will be a diverse and dynamic community represented in our user community and service providers. Each bringing their own understanding and knowledge of how their corner of the oil and gas industry operates. Collectively the full scope and scale of the industry's knowledge will be captured. Application of this knowledge in a focused direction, toward building the most profitable means of oil and gas operations, will be achieved through the communication facilities we’re bringing to our users. We are using Google Docs with the variety of tools that are available for the purpose of enhanced communication. If you’ve not had the opportunity to use these I would suggest you give them a try as the more familiar you are with them the more valuable they become.

The nature of remote work will be a feature of the developments of the Preliminary Specification and not as a result of any virus, or bug. Access by the authorized user using the appropriate device reviewing the data and information that they require is what we’ve set out to develop within our Security & Access Control module. Augmenting these features and capabilities will be Oracle’s security applications that are comprehensive and state of the art in the Information Technology and business communities. This will apply to not only our user community but also their service provider operations and extend further to almost everyone in oil and gas that needs access to financial information.

These requirements will place new demands on the skill requirements of those who are user community members and working within their service provider organizations. Information Technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and will continue to demand more from users. However, People, Ideas & Objects are expecting much more from our user community. First and foremost it is important to note that the priority that we are looking for is the knowledge and understanding of the oil and gas industry. That is paramount. However the need to be able to be active in a high technological environment during development, implementation and operations will demand that these skills be of a higher grade than what may be seen as adequate today. This will be what is required to operate in our environment but also, as we noted within the user community vision, the ability to communicate with our developers.
Secondly your ability to communicate with the People, Ideas & Objects developers in their primary skill set will be necessary to enhance the communications between yourself and our developers. It is easier for you to understand the elements of these concepts in relational theory and Java then it is for them to comprehend the full understanding of the oil and gas industry as represented in the entire user community. Therefore to enhance the communications between the developers and the user community it is by far the easiest for the user community to be able to speak generally the language of the developers. As there is no way in which the developers are ever going to fully understand the full scope and scale of the oil and gas industry that is contained within the entire user community. 
A reasonable approach to the task at hand I believe. The connection between these two otherwise disparate points, funding and communication, are important in that the job that is falling to the user community is becoming more critical each and every day. Our user communities leadership will be needed to provide the industry with the future and profitability that it needs. The means in which you will do that is through these enhanced communication with our developers who are well versed in the language and understanding of their own world. Our enhanced understanding of that world would facilitate better communications and in the long run a prosperous oil and gas industry. However, for our user community to be looking over their shoulders concerned about the business risks of this initiative, if the bureaucrats were going to regain control of the producers after a rally in oil and gas prices etc. etc. is unacceptable. We have to eliminate the business risk for our users in order for them to concentrate on this difficult task they have ahead of them. I don’t want to add any additional unnecessary stress or concern but after four decades of mismanagement by these bureaucrats, what other choice is there, or will there be, for industry to choose in the foreseeable future?

The Preliminary Specification, our user community and service providers provide for a dynamic, innovative, accountable and profitable oil and gas industry with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. Setting the foundation for profitable North American energy independence. People, Ideas & Objects have published a white paper “Profitable, North American Energy Independence -- Through the Commercialization of Shale.” that captures the vision of the Preliminary Specification and our actions. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Our Communications Network

Wikipedia states that Metcalfes law relates to telecommunication networks and states that its “value is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).” Now that was how the law was written at the time that Robert Metcalfe wrote it in the early 1970’s. As the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com Robert Metcalfe was focused on telecommunications at the time. If you follow his writings and thinking at this time, his definition of a network would include anything that involves people connected through the Internet. Therefore the value of the People, Ideas & Objects user community will be more valuable the more members of the user community join our network. First we need a network.

What our network will need to do will be for people to join in and participate in the conversations that are taking place here at People, Ideas & Objects. A place where people can communicate with one another with direct messages and find one another. A place where people can keep up with what is going on in the community around People, Ideas & Objects. FaceBook is used by everyone for their personal social networks. To add this community to FaceBook would be adding a component that is inconsistent with the makeup of what the users use FaceBook for. Twitter on the other hand is something that is used more by business related networks and less as social networks. In most cases people within our community will have not used Twitter before and therefore will have an expressed purpose to use it that will not interfere with anything else that they are doing. So we have chosen Twitter to be the network that we use to enable the communications and development of the user community of People, Ideas & Objects.

People wishing to join the network need to follow me @piobiz its that simple. From there you can see who else follows @piobiz and who we follow. You will also see the tweets that are sent out from myself and any of those that are sent out from people within the network who include @piobiz within the text of the tweet itself. You can put some information in your profile including an url to a website of yours for further information. There is a mechanism for which you can send private messages between members of the community. Other advantages of using Twitter include that it is deployable immediately and its cost is nothing. It will be here that we can begin to build the community that generates the momentum to move the industry.

As we start off the numbers may be small but we need to start somewhere. We will build this brick by brick, and stick by stick over the term of the remaining time in our ten year plan. That is how we will see this become real. That is how the opportunities for everyone will materialize. Our goal for 2014 is to get the word out. And that is how we can change the oil and gas industry into the dynamic, innovative, proactive and profitable industry that we need it to be.

The Preliminary Specification provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don’t forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz

Friday, March 26, 2010

A new approach.

There is another way. That is to say, I have been focused on the motivation people need to make the changes to build this software application. Thinking that the decline of the bureaucracy, through economic atrophy was the only way, is myopic thinking. Certainly there are other ways, however, I have failed to consider them and have become unnecessarily pessimistic.

The fact of the matter is that change can be made through a variety of different ways. Lets take this time, post budget drive, to explore the possibilities and discover other ways in which we can constructively build the support for this project. If you have ideas or comments please use the comment feature on this blog or email me.

March 31, 2010 is the deadline for raising our 2010 operating budget. After which a variety of consequences, such as financial penalties and a loss of one years time will occur. Our appeal should be based on the 30 compelling reasons of how better the oil and gas industry and its operations could be handled. They may not be the right way to go, but we are committed to working with the various communities to discover and ensure the right ones are.

If your an enlightened producer, an oil and gas director, investor or shareholder, who would be interested in funding these software developments and communities, please follow our Funding Policies & Procedures, and our Hardware Policies & Procedures. If your a government that collects royalties from oil and gas producers, and are concerned about the accuracy of your royalty income, please review our Royalty Policies & Procedures and email me. And if your a potential user of this software, and possibly as a member of the Community of Independent Service Providers, please join us here.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Change at Conoco

The Houston Chronicle reports today that ConocoPhillips have revised their corporate strategy.

ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva signaled a dramatic shift in course for the nation's third-largest oil company Wednesday, saying that after years of bulking up through acquisitions, it is now focused on being a smaller, leaner business that takes better care of its shareholders.
Everything that People, Ideas & Objects is about is represented in that statement. Going back to the Preliminary Research Report, the changing nature of the energy industry has been evident for a long time. Nothing has been done about this during the past 10 years. Why would anything be done when the high energy prices made managements look effective. Now that the writing is on the wall, expect to see many CEO's become enlightened. I am surprised though at the comment that ConocoPhillips would take better care of its shareholders. It is the shareholders of these producer firms that I expect will direct the financial support towards People, Ideas & Objects and the User community. Providing them better control over their oil and gas assets.

A point about communication. If you or someone you know works at ConocoPhillips, or any other producer. Please introduce them to the Draft Specification and encourage them to get involved here. For me to establish a direct communication with ConocoPhillips, or for that matter any producer, is counter productive in terms of the Community of Independent Service Providers. It is the Users who are the critical contact with the firms. They are the ones that will use the People, Ideas & Objects application modules and their services to make the producer the most profitable that it can. It is the User community that will direct the developers in the development of the applications they need. For me to communicate directly with the producers is counter to the interests of this user community.
But the change is necessary in light of the global recession and the difficulty of accessing new oil and gas reserves around the globe, coupled with the massive costs of extracting them, he said.
An honest assessment of the change to the oil and gas business. The position of the producer firm needs to be able to focus and support the innovative earth science and engineering talent in their firm. To do that requires the Joint Operating Committee to be the key organizational construct of the innovative oil and gas producer. It is one thing for ConocoPhillips to begin the process of becoming more focused on the sciences. In today's market the ability to change direction needs to have the changes recognized in the software first. SAP and an innovative science oriented Joint Operating Committee will not work. Bringing the CEO Mulva's comments into question as to their validity.
Mulva's comments underscore challenges facing major oil and gas companies and may even call into question the bigger-is-better, integrated business model that has prevailed in the oil industry for decades.
Asking these giants to make the change from the SAP induced bureaucratic firm to something more nimble is difficult for me to see without a change in the ERP systems they use.
Now, ConocoPhillips appears to be embracing a business model more akin to smaller, independent oil companies, which many investors prefer because they are more nimble and likely to deliver better returns, said Fadel Gheit, oil analyst with Oppenheimer & Co.
Who knows maybe they will be successful. Or the properties they sell off will continue to fuel new and more innovative firms.
When asked if he believes other oil companies will follow its downsizing lead, Mulva said not necessarily. But, he said, “I think longer term — I can't speak for the other companies — it's really changed from prior decades. It's going to take a somewhat different approach.”
That different approach is members of the User community joining me here.

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