Management of Change

Research Theme: Change Management

The Management of Change project is a collaborative research project with MIT and BP.

Motivation

Change management is a critical area in the success of complex oil and gas projects at BP. By better understanding the likely impact of changes, BP will be better able to control cost, scheduling and other factors associated with implementing changes.

Objectives

  • The Cambridge team will be seeking to: Benchmark existing Management of Change processes at BP and provide recommendations for improvement
  • Develop CPM models of oil and gas facilities to support change prediction analysis
  • Utilise statistical data derived from change databases by the MIT team to populate the CPM Models
  • Enable designers to explore the architecture of the product
  • Collaborate with MIT to investigate social/organisational aspects of change management
  • Collaborate with MIT to investigate how change propagation to third parties affects the management of change

Method

This work is being undertaken in close partnership with our contacts at BP and our colleagues at MIT.

Findings

None yet publicly available.

Acknowledgements

Support for this project is provided by BP.