21ST CENTURY INNOVATION REQUIRES A NEW APPROACH Leading digital transformations by embracing a wide range of partnerships. The world has never been more prosperous or connected. We nonetheless live in challenging times, facing a huge range of societal challenges that demand solutions. And most of these challenges have answers in engineering and science. In the oil and gas industry we have been talking about the power of digital for a long time, particularly under the rubric of what we call the Digital Oil Field. This concept is rooted in the geology and engineering of production, with an understanding that more data and better analytics can powerfully improve productivity and deliver tangible results. Perhaps ten years ago, when we began discussing the possibilities, we shared a vision of the future, but our reach exceeded our grasp. It is only in recent years, with the growing influence of the industrial internet and the availability of more powerful processing and analytics, that digitalization across the oil and gas value chain became a true reality. 43