Navigating Organisation in Times of VUCA: Implications for the HR and OD Profession

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Vasudevan Alasingachar
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Real Time ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Learning

This article addresses two vectors of VUCA interwoven in the narratives, a summary of personal theories about VUCA. Such theories are anchored and arise from experiential learning in my practice as HR/L&D and OD consultants over the past four decades. The implication for HR and OD profession is to consider their relevance when organisations navigate VUCA. Next is the culling out of the specific learning about HR and OD interphases that has worked in my experience, supported by examples and metaphors. The premise I put forward as conclusion are: In order to be at the centre stage of partnering with business, HR and OD have to complement and innovate new-age VUCA strategies. VUCA competencies with appropriate metrics are in the formative stage. The competencies are emerging from the real-time stories of consultants, companies and academia (TATA 26/11 and DuPont safety mandate). Only when HR and OD integrate and work together can the future of leadership or start-up entrepreneurs learn from their insights to ‘thrive in VUCA’.

scholarly journals A palace fit for the future: Desirability in temporal work

2021 ◽  
pp. 147612702110120
Author(s):  
Siavash Alimadadi ◽  
Andrew Davies ◽  
Fredrik Tell
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
Renewal Program ◽  
The Future ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Future Outcomes ◽  
Pluralistic Contexts

Research on the strategic organization of time often assumes that collective efforts are motivated by and oriented toward achieving desirable, although not necessarily well-defined, future states. In situations surrounded by uncertainty where work has to proceed urgently to avoid an impending disaster, however, temporal work is guided by engaging with both desirable and undesirable future outcomes. Drawing on a real-time, in-depth study of the inception of the Restoration and Renewal program of the Palace of Westminster, we investigate how organizational actors develop a strategy for an uncertain and highly contested future while safeguarding ongoing operations in the present and preserving the heritage of the past. Anticipation of undesirable future events played a crucial role in mobilizing collective efforts to move forward. We develop a model of future desirability in temporal work to identify how actors construct, link, and navigate interpretations of desirable and undesirable futures in their attempts to create a viable path of action. By conceptualizing temporal work based on the phenomenological quality of the future, we advance understanding of the strategic organization of time in pluralistic contexts characterized by uncertainty and urgency.

Traffic Congestion Reduction and Accident Circumvention System via Incorporation of CAV and VANET

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Mohsin Khan ◽  
Bhavna Arora
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Ad Hoc Network ◽  
Discrete System ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Real ◽  
Automated Vehicle ◽  
The Core

Connected automated vehicle (CAV) technology is the core for the new age vehicles in research phase to communicate with one another and assimilation of vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) for the transference of data between vehicles at a quantified place and time. This manuscript is an enactment of the algorithms associated to the maintenance of secure distance amongst vehicles, lane shifting, and overtaking, which will diminish the occurrence of collisions and congestions especially phantom jams. Those implementations are centered over CAV and VANET technology for the interconnection of the vehicles and the data transmission. The data is associated to the aspects of a vehicle such as speed, position, acceleration, and acknowledgements, which acts as the fundamentals for the computation of variables. In accordance with the environment of a particular vehicle (i.e., its surrounding vehicles), real-time decisions are taken based on the real-time computation of the variables in a discrete system.

An Advanced Ultra-Deep Resistivity Mapping Sensor Reduced Reservoir Uncertainty and Eliminated the Need for a Pilot Hole for the First Time; A Case Study from Offshore Abu Dhabi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wael Fares ◽  
Islam Moustafa ◽  
Ali Al Felasi ◽  
Hocine Khemissa ◽  
Omar Al Mutwali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Water Saturation ◽  
Firing Frequency ◽  
Target Zones ◽  
The Real ◽  
Pilot Hole ◽  
Low Resistivity ◽  
Milling Operations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identify Formation

Abstract The high reservoir uncertainty, due to the lateral distribution of fluids, results in variable water saturation, which is very challenging in drilling horizontal wells. In order to reduce uncertainty, the plan was to drill a pilot hole to evaluate the target zones and plan horizontal sections based on the information gained. To investigate the possibility of avoiding pilot holes in the future, an advanced ultra-deep resistivity mapping sensor was deployed to map the mature reservoirs, to identify formation and fluid boundaries early before penetrating them, avoiding the need for pilot holes. Prewell inversion modeling was conducted to optimize the spacing and firing frequency selection and to facilitate an early real-time geostopping decision. The plan was to run the ultra-deep resistivity mapping sensor in conjunction with shallow propagation resistivity, density, and neutron porosity tools while drilling the 8 ½-in. landing section. The real-time ultra-deep resistivity mapping inversion was run using a depth of inversion up to 120 ft., to be able to detect the reservoir early and evaluate the predicted reservoir resistivity. This would allow optimization of any geostopping decision. The ultra-deep resistivity mapping sensor delivered accurate mapping of low resistivity zones up to 85 ft. TVD away from the wellbore in a challenging low resistivity environment. The real-time ultra-deep resistivity mapping inversion enabled the prediction of resistivity values in target zones prior to entering the reservoir; values which were later crosschecked against open-hole logs for validation. The results enabled identification of the optimal geostopping point in the 8 ½-in. section, enabling up to seven rig days to be saved in the future by eliminating a pilot hole. In addition this would eliminate the risk of setting a whipstock at high inclination with the subsequent impact on milling operations. In specific cases, this minimizes drilling risks in unknown/high reservoir pressure zones by improving early detection of formation tops. Plans were modified for a nearby future well and the pilot-hole phase was eliminated because of the confidence provided by these results. Deployment of the ultra-deep resistivity mapping sensor in these mature carbonate reservoirs may reduce the uncertainty associated with fluid migration. In addition, use of the tool can facilitate precise geosteering to maintain distance from fluid boundaries in thick reservoirs. Furthermore, due to the depths of investigation possible with these tools, it will help enable the mapping of nearby reservoirs for future development. Further multi-disciplinary studies remain desirable using existing standard log data to validate the effectiveness of this concept for different fields and reservoirs.

Future-Labs in the Classroom: The Experience of -skopìa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-302
Author(s):  
Chiara Emanuelli ◽  
Rocco Scolozzi ◽  
Francesco Brunori ◽  
Roberto Poli
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Training ◽  
Training Course ◽  
The Past ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University

During the past three years, -skopìa[EDUCATION], the educational branch of the recently established start-up of the University of Trento, -skopìa, has conducted an extensive series of future laboratories in the classroom, working in particular with students aged twelve years old (second year of “medie inferiori”) and fifteen years old (second year of “medie superiori”). Future labs follow an explicit protocol (initial and final tests, three major steps, respectively, focused on the past, the future and the present). Teachers wanting to conduct a lab in their classroom must attend a preliminary training course. Furthermore, all the labs are monitored by -skopìa.

Real-Time Water Injection Monitoring with Distributed Fiber Optics Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teymur Sadigov ◽  
Cagri Cerrahoglu ◽  
James Ramsay ◽  
Laurence Burchell ◽  
Sean Cavalero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Fiber Optics ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
The Real ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Naturally Fractured ◽  
Monitoring Application ◽  
Time Injection

Abstract This paper introduces a novel technique that allows real-time injection monitoring with distributed fiber optics using physics-informed machine learning methods and presents results from Clair Ridge asset where a cloud-based, real-time application is deployed. Clair Ridge is a structural high comprising of naturally fractured Devonian to Carboniferous continental sandstones, with a significantly naturally fractured ridge area. The fractured nature of the reservoir lends itself to permanent deployment of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) to enable real-time injection monitoring to maximise recovery from the field. In addition to their default limitations, such as providing a snapshot measurement and disturbing the natural well flow with up and down flowing passes, wireline-conveyed production logs (PL) are also unable to provide a high-resolution profile of the water injection along the reservoir due to the completion type. DFOS offers unique surveillance capability when permanently installed along the reservoir interface and continuously providing injection profiles with full visibility along the reservoir section without the need for an intervention. The real-time injection monitoring application uses both distributed acoustic and temperature sensing (DAS & DTS) and is based on physics-informed machine learning models. It is now running and available to all asset users on the cloud. So far, the application has generated high-resolution injection profiles over a dozen multi-rate injection periods automatically and the results are cross-checked against the profiles from the warmback analyses that were also generated automatically as part of the same application. The real-time monitoring insights have been effectively applied to provide significant business value using the capability for start-up optimization to manage and improve injection conformance, monitor fractured formations and caprock monitoring.

Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Alexander Kluge
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Real Phenomenon ◽  
Alexander Kluge

This chapter explores the dialogue between Piero Salabè and Alexander Kluge wherein they talked about Kluge's book Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben (Next Door to Another Life, 2006). Kluge claims that there are always two aspects to sadness: it isolates, but it can also bring people in contact with one another. Sadness and crying are capable of dissolving hardened relations. When asked whether he believes in progress, Kluge answered that he does not believe in linear progress because for him “the past is always coming at us from the future.” Instead, he believes in circular movement like those in whirlpools. The concept of enlightenment must begin with the real phenomenon that time does not actually pass. Kluge says that “we must continue to tell stories about problems in the world, and with storytelling we must also push back against these problems that people fail to respect.” Storytelling means dissolving in the literal sense of “analyzing.” Kluge believes that this is the great, unfinished project of enlightenment. Salabè and Kluge also discusses the individual's capacity for differentiation.

scholarly journals The Net Generation’s Stories: A Typology

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-183
Author(s):  
Christina Schachtner
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Future

Abstract In this chapter, the empirical data are presented as a typology of narratives in which experiences and activities in virtual space and the real world are interwoven, along with ideas and wishes for the future, what has happened in the past, and what is happening in the present. They run like a subterranean web through the narrators’ lives, initiating patterns of thinking and doing which revolve around a specific focus. The following types of narrations were identified: stories about interconnectedness, self-staging, supplying and selling, managing boundaries, and transformation, as well as setting out and breaking away.

Probing the past and imagining the future

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (66) ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Frances Pine
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Moral Questions

The socialist states of the Soviet Bloc fell, some gently and some far more abruptly and even violently, between 1989 and 1991. In the two decades that have followed, there have been continual attempts by politicians, social scientists, and other academics, as well as by the citizens of these “former socialist countries” themselves, to come to terms with competing memories of what socialism meant, was, and might have been. Simultaneously, efforts to weigh up and assess a range of very different pasts are matched by forecasts of imagined futures that somehow continue to be driven by and predicated on this complex and kaleidoscopic remembered history. The present, the here and now, can, however, be even more complicated; in some ways it neither escapes entirely from the past nor really sets the stage for the future, but rather is a continual state of “becoming”. Just as “memory” is never a “true” reflection of a time or an event, but rather a multiple layering of recollections that change each time they are evoked, none of these complex and rather messy temporalities actually matches the “real” past, present, or future—all carry complex moral judgments, reflect moral questions, and embody the tension between what might have been, what is, and what should be.

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