Showing posts with label Conflict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conflict. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Engaging the Bureaucracy

Our appeal to the individuals who know there is a better way in the oil and gas industry continues. This includes the user community, our service providers and the investors who are all of like mind with respect to the Preliminary Specification. We have drawn distinct lines around the bureaucracy in the oil and gas industry and are at, no better way to describe it, war with them. They don’t like us and have chosen to not deal with us in every aspect of their organizations. We don't blame them, as the biggest side effect of the Preliminary Specification is that the bureaucracy is eliminated from the landscape. Kaput, Nada, out of here. So their response is more of a self preservation styled response of a self interested group. And we hurt them badly. Offering a solution that provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations makes the bureaucracy look really bad. Especially when they're kneeling at Church praying for successive cold winters as a solution to what ails the business.

But we are not alone in our difficulties with the bureaucracy. Other industries are in various stages of similar disintermediation. And some industries have seen the bureaucracy destroyed. So our friends know what’s in store for them. There is also the flack that they are getting from above in terms of the investment communities disappointment in the manner that the industry is run and the investors ability to influence how it is run. Lashing out at us is an understandable strategy for a groups of self interested bureaucrats who are being challenged in their franchise. The problem is its getting serious. I've been at this process of writing and developing these ideas around the Joint Operating Committee for over a decade now. And trust me I know how to be pesky, which I have. I have noted the times in which the bureaucracy have attempted to establish their own Intellectual Property that violates our copyright, and each time they have been knocked down. They are unwilling to accept that Intellectual Property means something much more substantial in the 21st century than it did in the 20th century.

So now we stand here with the Preliminary Specification gaining steam in the marketplace. Our primary focus is to build on the Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications, and the vision of the Preliminary Specification by focusing on the development of the user community. And the bureaucracy has been exposed as having no clothes. What are the prospects of the bureaucracy to establish “something” to offset our momentum. Clearly this next year is the time in which they need to do something if they are going to succeed, scratch that, survive for the next decade. Survival is all that they need to achieve for survival assumes they continue to control the cash. They need to do something that is either brilliant in terms of how it solves the issues in the industry. Or is ruthless in terms of its attack on People, Ideas & Objects, its user community and service providers.

Brilliant solutions from the bureaucracy will be forthcoming from the committee that is being formed and will have its first meeting February 1, 2015. So that leaves us with an attack on us collectively. And we have been the focus of this in the past. But I think this can be classified as something more substantial. I am wise to their ways of keeping their enemies close. But I think that they will keep us at arms length and employ other more radical means to attempt to ruin us in the “mind share” game we have chosen to operate in. We would love the attention to say the least. So lets keep a look out for what our friends are up to this next year. I for one am looking for a good knock out brawl. I haven't been in the ring, so to speak, for a couple of decades. All this jabbing and prodding around the edges only gets you hungry to take your opponents on in the ring. The only thing that I demand is that they put some clothes on.

The Preliminary Specification provides the oil and gas producer with the most profitable means of oil and gas operations. People, Ideas & Objects Revenue Model specifies the means in which investors can participate in these user defined software developments. Users are welcome to join me here. Together we can begin to meet the future demands for energy. And don't forget to join our network on Twitter @piobiz anyone can contact me at 403-200-2302 or email here