In a recent survey by AIIM, the Global Community of Information Professionals, 46% of respondents indicated that the single biggest productivity improvement for most of their business processes is to remove paper. So…Why do business processes still require so much paper in the oil & gas service industry?
The problems with paper are numerous, obvious, and costly. Paper is not smart—it does not know that a new price was supposed to go into effect today. Paper needs to be transported, gets lost, gets dirty and is often mangled in the oilfield. Paper needs to be keyed in—basically documenting the same transaction twice. Those five part paper forms are expensive to produce, and just because the customer changes the white copy does not mean that change will wind up on the pink copy already in payroll.
Implementing an efficiency tool like Cleargistix, which can that help remove inefficient paper from the oil & gas service cycle, results in real, tangible benefits. But when times are good (who isn’t wishing for $100 oil?) it seems that companies are too busy to implement efficiency tools and when times are bad (mid $40s oil…ugh) the excuse is that there is no money to pay for the efficiency tools. However, current market conditions are requiring companies to be hyper efficient and implement tools with demonstrable ROIs like Cleargistix.
We spent last week at LAGCOE in Lafayette, being chosen as one of ten “Energy Innovators” for the 1st “Energy Innovators Pitch Challenge”. During our time speaking with potential customers, partners, investors and other market participants, I was greatly encouraged to see the receptivity of our message…the time is now to implement efficiency solutions with real ROIs; eliminating paper has become mission critical.
The time is now.
Take “The Cure for the Common Paper” and join the Digital Oilfield with Cleargistix.
