Example By: Mohamed S. Alaydaroos Student ID: 01-02-1037 I shall be using the company that I work for (i.e. National Drilling Company) as an example of a local organization that experienced a successful e-transformation journey. National Drilling Company (NDC) basically is the largest drilling contractors in the Middle East, providing its customers with quality drilling, work-over and well maintenance services, while maintaining the highest safety, integrity and environment standards and implementing
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knowledge later that night when an emergency announcement was issued over the rig’s PA system. Williams was the chief electronics technician for Transocean, a U.S.-owned, Switzerland-based oil industry support company that specialized in deep water drilling equipment. The company’s $560 million Deepwater Horizon rig was in the Gulf of Mexico working on the Macondo well. British Petroleum (BP) held the rights to explore the well and had leased the rig, along with its crew, from Transocean. Of the 126
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Offshore Drilling Does anything out weigh the importance of our planet’s health? You would be surprised by the number of people who look the other way when it comes to keeping the planet clean. Offshore drilling is just one of the major environmental issues that has existed for many years and still continues to be a problem. The topic of offshore drilling not only touches on environmental issues but also political, economic, and ethical issues. All of these tie into the huge debate over offshore
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estimated that 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over a span of 87 days. This catastrophic environmental disaster is known as the Gulf Oil Spill occurred on April 20, 2010 about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana. An oil drilling rig (Deepwater Horizon) leased by British Petroleum (BP) ignited and exploded spewing 42,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf. Two days later the rig sank increasing the spill rate to 210,000 gallons of oil a day. Analysis – Government intervention
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owner of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon) to provide the vessel and drilling crew to implement BP’s operations of the Maconda well. 1 Investigations established that bad management on the Deepwater Horizon resulted in poor safety on the rig. The US chemical safety board concludes that a last-ditch safety device on the underwater well had multiple failures and wasn't tested properly. It found that the cause of the initial explosion involved multiple screw-ups with cement, drilling mud, fluid
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. The incident also affect 1100 miles of coastline in Alaska. And within six hours of the spill, 10.6 billions of gallons of crude oil have been spilled into the ocean. The specific damage of these pollutants to animals in the ocean is mentioned in the article “Who is responsible for marine debris? The international politics of cleaning our oceans”. Plastic debris and trash caused malnutritions in sea animals, since the consumption of waste in the ocean make them feels like they are full and no longer
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Case study An analysis of 3M, the innovation company Introduction Any review of the literature on new product development and innovation management will uncover numerous references to 3M. The organisation is synonymous with innovation and has been described as ‘a smooth running innovation machine’ (Mitchell, 1989). Year after year 3M is celebrated in the Fortune 500 rankings as the ‘most respected company’ and the ‘most innovative company’. Management gurus from Peter Drucker to Tom Peters continually
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Running head: INNOVATION LEADERSHIP Innovation Leadership Russell L. Dykes Bellevue University Abstract Innovation leadership is all about facilitating and empowering others in order to help their creativity thrive. In order to be a leader of innovation, the manager must facilitate the innovation of others by providing the space, equipment, networks, partnerships, and environment that allows their creativity to flourish. The innovation leader must toward establishing
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currently has technology centers located in Belgium, Canada, Singapore, United States, and the United Kingdom. According to (2011), “Halliburton recently opened a new technology center in April 2011, at the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro. Innovation is what sets Halliburton apart from its competitors”. This center will provide solutions that they can implement to accelerate deepwater field development and continue enhancing production from the mature oil fields. Management has also paved
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whether being of their own citizens or for exports the pursuit for those opportunities in a cost efficient way leads to profit for the individual and growth for the company. In this essay I will be describing the relationship between Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economical development. Well, in my view the relationship between these terms can only be explained thru a virtue circle.
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