Next step in change: The ``learning organization``
- Arthur D. Little Inc., Houston, TX (United States)
Although the cost reductions over the past 15 years were painful, they forced the petroleum industry to put resources to work more efficiently, and now they`re doing many of the right things in the right ways. Foremost, they`ve been finding and developing new oil resources from a wide variety of sources at low costs, even while in many areas the quality of the resource base has continued to deteriorate. They`ve also made great progress in stripping costs out of the entire supply chain, remediating environmental problems, reformulating fuels, and managing risk. In a low price environment, performance improvement is the name of the game, and over time a number of tools have been created to help meet this challenge. Because these tools have been developed successively, each building upon the accomplishments of its predecessors, the author sees them as the ``building blocks`` of organizational transformation. The latest building block -- and one that a lot of thought is being put into at Arthur D. Little -- is the ``learning organization.`` This and the other building blocks are discussed (decentralization, total quality management, business process redesign, high performance business, and virtualization).
- OSTI ID:
- 395400
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 94, Issue 46; Other Information: PBD: 11 Nov 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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