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Generating value through digital transformation

Oil and gas firms must consider several factors when addressing digital maturity

The energy transition imposes two key imperatives on oil and gas (O&G) companies: reinventing their core businesses to strengthen financial resilience and innovating their business models towards a sustainable and carbon-free future. On both fronts, data and digital will play a key role. Fundamental transformation of the core requires executives to stick to a few principles to ensure a step change in performance. They must reinvent core workflows end-to-end; customise to the reality of their core assets (vs. standardisation); and be user-centric, addressing front-line issues. To make this transformation possible, executives must implement a few fundamental enablers addressing: Programme

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