Considerations in improving AFE quality and time to approvals

It is easy to reduce AFE turnaround time. Just make ball park estimates, use some data from a previous project, some quick calls to equipment providers, some high level assumptions and bang out an AFE. Right? Whilst the above scenario is exaggerated, there is pressure on upstream O&G...

Low hanging fruit is not enough

I repeatedly hear the expression ‘start with the low hanging fruit’, assess the easy wins and start there. I think there are benefits in this approach. For example, if something is new within a business, maybe this allows people to ‘get it’, see something play out...

Recent Survey Shows that Document Management is the Most Important Asp...

by Craig Panigiris I have recently worked on an Intranet Seminar hosted by Professional Advantage for over 200 Information Management Professionals.  Much of the examples discussed at the event were centred on Microsoft SharePoint.   At the end of the event we conducted a survey, where...

A process map is not enough

Now this is not a post supporting lengthy, ’must document the business’ navel gazing exercises. This is more an observation on the typical type of information an organisation will gather to support a process improvement project. As a vendor I am not sure how many times I...

The king is dead, long live the king

Which king? The annual budget king, of course.  Even before the GFC the writing was on the wall.  Businesses should not live by the annual budget alone.  I am going to widen that to include any annual planning review. Even if this might incoporate a fresh look at other planning...