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Today’s BP

BP is one of the world's largest energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items

Today’s Bp

Turnover $284 billion Replacement cost profit $17.3 billion Number of employees 97,600 Number of shareholders 1.2 million Proved reserves 17.8 billion barrels of oil and

gas equivalent Service stations 24,100 Exploration Active in 29 countries

Refineries Interest in 17

Facts and figures:

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Today’s BP BP management framework: The management framework’s

aim is that every time authority is delegated, the delegator and delegate will agree several key factors: its purpose; the relevant targets; the resources allocated to it; its limitations; and the processes for monitoring performance.

BP’S Peer Group Group Technology in BP consists of about 30

people working as staff within a corporately supported unit. Their mission is to provide central coordination and guidance to the technology activities of BP business units

A distinctive aspect of BP’s organization is the organization of business units into peer groups

This peer group structure affects culture and behavior throughout the corporation

Delivery

Global business center

(stream business executive committees and group function)

TechnologyLegalHRITAuditProjects

Generating and Sharing Knowledge

BP’s framework for sharing knowledge starts with the business objective and ends with business results

BP portrays learning as a cyclical process that takes place around the execution of business plans, with generally separate activities to be taken up before, during and after a project

LearnDuring

Learn afterLearn

before

Leveraging Using knowledge

Goals Results

Access and apply

Continuous Learning

Validate and Renew

Business Practice and Context with performance histories

BP Knowledge Assets

Networks (communities of practice)

Business Units

Generating and Sharing Knowledge BP takes the position that network members

have a dual citizenship

----Network members are part of the business units but also have a role in supporting the federal welfare by participating in the network

--- Rather than relying on a corporate functional department, the network becomes the means for sharing know-how among business.

Business Unit1

Business Unit2

Business Unit3

Network

Dual Citizenship

Connecting People and Forming Networks

BP uses a voluntary corporate Yellow Pages system as the platform for making networks

BP’s connect system includes the web-based personal profiles of more than 18000 knowledge workers and more than 250 networks.

BP’s Connect System Open to employees and contractors Includes engineers, scientists,

technicians, commercial and administrative support

Permit individuals to build web pages for themselves

Knowledge workers use Connect to select networks they wish to join, to locate individuals with needed skills

Delivery networks have budges and responsibilities for delivering a product or result at the end of the year

VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGYHIVE (Highly Immersive Visualization

Environment) : floor to ceiling 25 foot-wide multiple projectors use to examine physical system from any angle .

Allows opportunities to “fly-in” for closer examination

Better relative appreciation of physical challenge in developing an offshore oil field, building a refinery, or laying out an office

Problem encountered: how to drill to some perspective depth and locationHive solution: Reduced workload and estimating time to

make decision.It was used to estimate the quality and extent

of potential oil and gas reservoir prospectMore expression about the topography of the

seafloorReduced operating risk and reduced saving

in development cost

Conclusion on Hive Solution

HIVE facilitated better teamwork through the sharing of perspective and know-how, resulting in demonstrable reduction in investment and cycle time

GENERAL CONCLUSIONRecent focus of BP in the area of

knowledge management are:-on applied visualization Technologies and

promotion common work process.-Promotion of teamwork, innovation and

creativity by the computer-supported visualization environments

- The common work processes form the basic shared culture and experience as a platform

GENERAL CONCLUSION (CONTINUED)

-Helping individual units improve performance in their target area.

- Pilot programs are key factors to achieve a fixed gain goal productivity of 4% increase every year.

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