Morville's Classifications

Sharing Knowledge

Seeing the big picture and keeping up with the latest thinking is hard when you have real work to do. Custom workshops, internal seminars and training courses help ensure all your team are aware of the latest opportunities, without any sales pitch to promise the unattainable. Years of experience presenting the complex issues ensue that you will gain actionable knowledge.

As an example the "Three ways to classify" shown here is from Peter Morville's 2014 book "Intertwingled" that provides invaluable insight into the discipline of Information Architecture. We have run workshops, classroom courses and intimate seminars on a wide range of important topics:

The impact of data: surveying the range of different techniques that have been applied to measure the business value technical data delivers to oil companies and explaining how you can apply them to document your situation
Your information landscape: explaining how to map out and assess your existing data handling. The process of gathering opinions from your data users, analysing the range of views expressed and presenting the results
Data management maturity: a number of specialised techniques have been refined over the last 10 years to help place a company's data handling into context. The "Maturity" metric is one of the most important examples. When appropriately applied it provides invaluable insights to help plan a programme of improvement projects
Clarifying what you want: if the goal is not documented it is hardly surprising that most oil companies fail to get there. A framework within which data handling should operate is the first step. Let us use our experience to help you articulate your target
Data quality management: in order to improve quality you must document what good quality is. Quality cannot really be measured unless you understand the business role that each data set is meant to play, the expectations of the consumers and the assumptions of the producers
Overview of data management: looking at the big picture of how the flow of data fits into a typical exploration and production organisation and the range of skills and expertise that are needed to improve

We can help your staff understand these challenging topics and help you articulate the opportunities and benefits for improving data handling.