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NDB works to ensure the successful implementation of IT projects within the upstream oil and gas industry. We believe that a significant minority of these projects are so poorly implemented that they can only be classed as a failure. By providing the necessary project management resource together with a full understanding of how upstream professionals work, we believe that the risk of project failure or delay is minimised.

This is how we achieve reduced risk:

• We believe that IT and IM projects have to be built with the drive from both management and the staff. NDB acts early to minimise the risk that projects are set up for failure.
• Projects without an approved budget from a compelling business case will not be able to prove value.
• Project deliverables can change as people really engage with their needs. Inevitably this is half way through the project. We use a simple stakeholder engagement process to minimise misunderstandings.
• Good technical people are not always good project managers.
• Outsourcing of non-core services are not always the answer, again we look to see proven benefits from well run pilots.

Technical applications and data are essential elements in successful exploration and production activity. They are critical to the decision process, and providing the environment in which subsurface interpretations and models exist. Individual and team productivity are dependent on the quality of the delivery of technical applications and data, and of the support provided. The importance of the technical applications environment is recognised, but how many users are still experiencing:

• Data of unknown origin and quality?
• IT Support which appears to focus on turn-around times for forgotten passwords?
• Gaps in tools and data sets for evolving business practices?
• Unwillingness or inability to 'own' the problem and find a solution?
• Application knowledge gaps that add time to business processes?

The solution to the productivity problem does not lie in spending more money or increasing the number of support consultants but in focusing on business objectives and gaining access to the most experienced resources.

New Digital Business (NDB) can work with you to deliver higher and sustainable levels of productivity. With this aim, we can:

• Supply active, flexible onsite support to the team.
• Build technical workflows to streamline business processes.
• Develop and maintain trust in the data asset.
• Provide a project management interface with generic providers to implement change initiatives.

Working with Paras Consulting, NDB can provide complementary services needed to implement the recommended changes and to ensure that recommendations have the desired,sustainable, beneficial and tangible effects on the business.

NDB's approach to service delivery is based on proven methods, the highest quality resources available on an individual by individual basis, and flexible, cost effective deployment. Proposal and deployment are based on a thorough analysis of the business need and a continuous improvement approach using the Managed Service Delivery (MSD)process. *

What NDB Can Offer You

• Make your asset team and each individual more productive! NDB will provide the person who becomes the applications and data expert within the asset team and who makes everyone else on the team more productive by anticipating their needs and by focusing on the business processes.
• Reduce the risks of projects and the cost operations! NDB will provide experts who can, in turn, provide the E&P operational knowledge along with project management experience, using structured methods, which means that the client can select from cost effective generic providers for operations and implementations. Operational support models can be built and managed as a service independent of the support service providers.
• Reduce the time taken on business tasks! NDB can define this role within the compass of a senior onsite consultant so that there are defined end products delivered through the life of the assignment and so that support is focused on the business needs.
• Build and maintain trust in the data asset! NDB can implement and maintain data definitions and data processes. We can manage and measure the effectiveness of third party data management suppliers. This will reduce the time taken to produce required data and increase the end-users' confidence in the data.

Industry acknowledged experienced onsite consultants from NDB are offered with a history of achievement and recognition with the major software suppliers. They are available to take your applications and data service to the next level of active support, define business-led workflows, and finally build a maintainable data model.These consultants are available for flexible deployment at rates, which are significantly lower than you might expect.

* MSD - Managed Service Delivery MSD, quality and review process developed and established by NDB.