Digital technologies offer opportunities for oil and gas companies like BP to meet changing consumer needs, develop new sustainable capabilities, and pursue alternative solutions to reduce costs of legacy systems and processes. However, scaling digital products faces challenges of legacy integration complexity, lack of standardization, and slow speed to market. Key success factors include focusing on people, behaviors, leadership direction, governance, commercial architecture, and vendor choices while keeping implementations simple with enabling technology platforms and a culture open to change, with ongoing feedback and reflection.

1. Digital against
Complex Legacy
Claire Dickson
CIODownstream, BP

2. DigitalInnovation offers opportunities to
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Meet changing needs of
consumers
Develop new capabilities in
support of sustainable
differentiation
… and pursue alternative
solutions to drive down cost of
heritage systems and
processes

3. DigitalProduct Development
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Ideation Rapid Prototyping Product Scaling
The Scaling Problem
• Legacy integration complexity
• Lack of Standardisation
• Speed to market

4. Success Factors
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People Behaviors Direction Governance
Commercial Architecture Vendors

5. KeepIt Simple
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Enabling
Technology
Platforms
Choices
Culture that
leans into
Change
Digital of today is legacy of tomorrow

6. Feedback and reflection
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