Education & industry

Blog by Kenneth Wilkinson

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  • AI in Oil and Gas Supply Chains
    The already complex, highly technological, and innovative oil and gas industry faces several enduring challenges: around costs, logistics and geography, public scrutiny, and environmental concerns. In recent years, advanced information technologies are providing potential solutions to many of the industry’s most stubborn efficiency-reducers. According to a report by Accenture, powerful new computing capabilities  – foremost among them AI – could help the industry save up to $1.6 trillion by 2025 (Accenture, 2018). This article discusses how AI can enhance oil industry supply chain operations, and outlines the assumptions underlying these improvements. Predictive Analytics This capability constitutes a major affordance of AI. […]
  • Applying the Pareto Principle
    If you run a business, you must remember two things. 1. The Pareto principle: 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. (This means, most of your jobs will be low profiting. Two out […]
  • AI in Oil and Gas Supply Chains
    The already complex, highly technological, and innovative oil and gas industry faces several enduring challenges: around costs, logistics and geography, public scrutiny, and environmental concerns. In recent years, advanced information technologies are providing potential solutions to many […]
  • AI in Oil and Gas Supply Chains
    The already complex, highly technological, and innovative oil and gas industry faces several enduring challenges: around costs, logistics and geography, public scrutiny, and environmental concerns. In recent years, advanced information technologies are providing potential solutions to many […]

EDUCATION

  • Flex – Creativity for Learning
    Kenneth Wilkinson (55104450) Flex Portfolio Contents Flex 1. Delivering Practical Sessions (word count: 970) This portfolio item is based on a workshop designed to encourage use of practical methods in teaching. In this entry, I combine the […]
  • ICTs, Global Citizenship, and Education for Sustainable Development
    Peterson and Warwick (2015) argue that global technologies represent a major form (and, by implication, force) of globalisation, so are indispensable to global learning. Because constructivist, student-centred notions of learning dominate global citizenship education, the learning […]
  • ICTs, Global Citizenship, and Education for Sustainable Development
    Peterson and Warwick (2015) argue that global technologies represent a major form (and, by implication, force) of globalisation, so are indispensable to global learning. Because constructivist, student-centred notions of learning dominate global citizenship education, the learning […]

Philosophy

Translation

  • Translating Film Scripts
    It was probably in my third of four years of full-time Chinese study that I started reading real Chinese. Modern novels and film scripts were my favourite. I still love […]

Chinese

  • No Shortcuts
    Maybe I was a slow learner. Maybe I was overconscientious. Maybe I simply didn’t trust my own abilities. Maybe Chinese was just too difficult for me. I don’t know. But […]

Japanese

  • AI in Oil and Gas Supply Chains
    The already complex, highly technological, and innovative oil and gas industry faces several enduring challenges: around costs, logistics and geography, public scrutiny, and environmental concerns. In recent years, advanced information technologies […]

About me

Life with EB Simplex

  • The Sensation of Skin Loss
    What is unpleasant to bear is seldom offset by the ease of its description. Dermal detachment is a case in point. The sensation of near-spontaneous dermal detachment makes the experience […]

Musings

  • Applying the Pareto Principle
    If you run a business, you must remember two things. 1. The Pareto principle: 80% of your profit comes from 20% of your customers. (This means, most of your jobs […]