Journal of Petroleum Technology, Vol.46, No.6, 488-489, 1994
Brief - Information Technology as an Aid to Productivity in Petroleum-Exploration - Fact or Fiction
This paper considers the relationship between information technology investment, technical productivity, and business benefit. The effect of introducing IT to the industry and its impact on geoscience is described, along with a discussion of whether investment in IT has brought the expected benefits to other industries. The paper concludes with a consideration of the present business perceptions of IT and asks whether a company, by concentrating solely on such issues as technical productivity, will actually maximize the benefits of IT.