While other oil and gas companies are licensing best in class software as a service that utilize open standards, Chevron continues to dig their own technological grave with smoke and mirrors such as “Growth mindset”, and programs such as FWE that produce garbage that nobody wants to use or support.
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Haha, bunch of engineers or MBAs in here. Talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? Maybe you've been chrvronized too long and only now how to pick the opposite and most expensive choice.
Too bad strategic direction doesn't make it past middle management. Lots of folks are working hard to do the right thing, you boss or you just s— to much to appreciate it or share. Lol
@boud obviously you know a lot about the Amazon or Microsoft capabilities. I think they’re talking about AWS’s cloud computing services and you’re over here talking about package delivery.
@ bkrf, Amazon can’t accurately deliver many of their packages to the right house. Really?
Chevron should have signed with Amazon instead
I disagree. Petrel is the way to go. We need to phase out the manual interpretation nonsense.
For upstream exploration and AD Microsoft has cost the company untold $$ and still continues. This is old news but the switch from a Linux OS for earth science G&G to Windows-based Petrel is an example of a really bad decision. Sure local Unix/Linux support is more expensive but Windows sys local support takes 1 week to admit there is a problem, another week of trading calls between times zones or Houston to SADC. And then a week later, after you self-initiate a work-around that gets a map out with diminished value or completely redone, some well-meanind, exceedingly polite but entirely unhelpful IT-ite calls you to ask if you are still experiencing an issue. Now when you are paying some crackerjack interpreter $100/hr to find billion dollar assets and you waste a week of value-zone time on an enterprise-wide basis and all that inefficiency adds up incrementally at a time when we seek growth not treading water. The value-zone is not to be found with IT vendors. The value zone is in the minds of the the petrotechs in upstream at the top of the value chain where mistakes made can penalize CVX for years to come or generate major revenue streams. Oh and that part about compressing the time to find a DW prospect from a few years to a few months: complete bs. What we have now is a bloated corporate mid-section that is throwing it on their PMP, wall seeing what sticks and then spending most of their time at work asserting and protecting their personal power which creates no value for the company and is a big reason so many have left. CVX churns along shooting ourselves in the foot with inefficiency and following a ceo who’s only real strategy is capex reduction. That is not a growth strategy. We are greatly limited by our leadership who are driving initiatives that detract from value but pay out big bonuses. The result of all this is underperformance and continued divestment of assets not to high-grade the portfolio as is claimed but to keep our head above water. Layoffs are inevitable unless the attrition rate continues to escalate. So IT and Microsoft aren't the problem. They are a symptom of our current culture. This is not a good thing for an organization operating at our scale IMHO.
I'll take Microsoft over Mckinsey and Accenture anyday. Those consulting clowns are the worst!
Chevron needs to finally take a bold step by trashing everything Microsoft. All laptops and desktops need to be replaced with Apple Macs.
FWE s—s. b–tard child of UWT and DIA
Only Bozos think Microsoft can write software. DOS was reasonably compact in the beginning , but since then everything they have sold is blotted and inefficient. Windows is now total blot-ware c-ap, Office has not advanced in two decades and VBA is a joke, and the rest suffers from irrational system expectations.
Only bozos think Chevron is good at building software.
Only luddites think about buying software or SaaS. You will be automated.