414 About the Contributors Tom Rosendahl is Associate Professor in Market Communication at BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour. He holds a PhD degree from the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Gothenburg University, Sweden. His professional in- terests include marketing communication, cross-cultural communication, project communication, change management, and understanding the development in Integrated Operations. He has published widely and is the author/editor of 14 books. His latest books are entitled “Marketing in a Cross Disciplinary Perspective” (2008) and “Project Communication” (2010). Vidar Hepsø holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from NTNU and is currently Principal Researcher/ Project Manager at Statoil R&D in Trondheim Norway. He is also Adjunct Professor at the NTNU Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry. His main interests are related to new types of col- laboration enabled by new information and communication technology (ICT) in general and in particular ICT-infrastructure development, capability platforms and collaboration technologies. The main work area the last 8-10 years has been within ‘Integrated Operations’ (IO) .Within this field of activities he is involved in both planning, execution, and evaluation of IO activities in Statoil in addition to being project manager and a resource for branch specific research and development of IO in both Norway and internationally. * * * Eirik Albrechtsen is a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society, department of safety research. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Safety Management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), department of industrial economics and technology management. He has a PhD in Safety Management from the same department. He has written several scientific publications on the implications from new technology and new organizational forms on risk and risk handling. He has been the project manager for the safety initiatives at the Center for Integrated Operations in the petroleum industry. Andreas Al-Kinani holds a MSc. Degree in Petroleum Engineering of the Mining University in Leoben, Austria. He acts as a Managing Partner and Technical Director of myr:conn solutions. An- dreas has been involved in numerous projects covering the whole petroleum system from the reservoir through the well head to the facilities and sales points. In his projects Andreas integrates data mining and artificial intelligence approaches with analytical and numerical petroleum engineering techniques. About the Contributors He has implemented multiple reservoir and production performance surveillance systems for oil and gas companies worldwide and has developed several knowledge capturing solutions for production and reservoir engineering challenges. As an industry wide recognized expert for data mining in petroleum engineering and production workflow automation Andreas is holding related trainings and advising work in data mining and workflow automation for petroleum assets. Theresa Baumgartner holds a Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering, a Master in Drilling Engineering and a Master in Petroleum Economics, all from the University of Leoben in Austria. During her studies she spent 6 months each at the UNSW in Sydney and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. For her Master’s thesis in corporation with myr:conn solutions, she formulated ideas on Bayesian networks for advisory systems, knowledge technology, and network system supporting knowledge sharing and col- laboration. After internships with major oil companies in Austria, Germany, Norway, and Oman, she currently works at Booz & Company, a management consulting firm. Alf Ove Braseth received the M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1992 at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). From 92 – 97 he worked as a Process Engineer in Norwegian oil company Norsk Hydro. From 97-00 he worked as a process engineer in the Norwegian oil company Saga Petroleum. From 00 to present he has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the OECD Halden Reactor Project in the department of Operation Centres. He is one of the three inventors of the Information Rich Design concept for process control; and is currently developing large screen installations using the Information Rich Design both for offshore oil processes and now recently for the nuclear industry in Sweden and Finland. Bernt A. Bremdal shares his time between academia and business. He is a Professor at Narvik University College in Norway and a Scientific Advisor within energy, media and technology. Dr. Bremdal’s main research interest is related to smart systems and smart organizations. This includes artificial intelligence, decision support, knowledge management, and organizational learning. Over a span of 25 years he has worked with a number of businesses within oil, gas, electricity, manufacturing, metals, automotive, media, and defense. He headed the first team in GeoKnowledge that invented the GeoX explorationist tool which is used worldwide. He was also co-responsible for the development of ASAP which is used for analyzing safety of various offshore installations. He co-founded CognIT A.S. and MIRIAM A.S. The first company has had success with its web based process modeling and QA suite called Best Practice. This is now supplemented with the data-to-knowledge system called CognIT Knowledge Hub, also created by Dr. Bremdal. MIRIAM A.S is a rising star and offers tools for analyz- ing regularity of gas and oil flows. Nihal Cakir holds a MSc. Degree in Business Administration of the University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria and she is studying Petroleum Engineering at the Mining University in Leoben, Austria. In her former studies she specialized in Change Management and Management Development. At myr:conn solutions, she is working as a Project Engineer. 415 About the Contributors Jan Ove Dagestad has Wide O&G industry experience, starting 20 years ago as field engineers moving into project and operations management for pumping, completion, and fluids services. For the last 12 years Jan Ove Dagestad has worked in business development and marketing and sales cover- ing drilling and evaluation, later corporate marketing, as sales and business development director for BEACON, the Baker Hughes platform for Integrated Operations globally. Jan Eivind Danielsen consults in the area Enterprise Architecture at the Scandinavian IT Consultancy company Bouvet ASA. His experience in the Oil and Gas Business and the field of Integrated Operations goes back to around year 2000. The main focus of his work is integrating ICT systems with the company management system to bring together information, roles, organizational entities, processes and compli- ance with rules, legislations and emerging best practices. As a former research fellow at NTNU in the field of applied creativity, the principles of innovation and knowledge creation have become integrated in the enterprise architecture approach. Lars Kristian Due-Sørensen holds a Master of Science in Leadership & Organizational Psychology from BI Norwegian Business School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Administration & Leadership from Oslo University College. Academic fields of interest include change management, training & development, employee motivation, and generally the psychological interplay within large organizations. Currently works as an HR Representative at GE Oil & Gas, and resides in the Oslo area, Norway. Martin Eike holds a M.A. in Administration and Organization Theory from the University of Ber- gen and is Senior Consultant in Kongsberg Oil and Gas Technologies’ business consulting unit. He has diverse experience from operational improvement projects and Integrated Operations initiatives in the E&P-industry, primarily working within the D&W-domain. Asbjørn Egir is a Senior Advisor in the Upstream Oil & Gas Industry at Astra North, Stavanger Norway. His main areas of expertise are business process management (analysis, design, and imple- mentation), change management, and organizational development. He also has experience as a project manager/team leader and facilitator. His most recent project was a pre-study of integrated planning and management system revitalization through business process analysis and redesign. Currently, he serves as the subject matter expert responsible for the multidisciplinary work method, Concurrent Design, in Astra North AS. Concurrent Design is real time interaction and collaboration between engineers, con- tractors, specialists, and customers enabled by process analysis, an integrated work environment and a prepared multi-disciplinary team. Cathrine Filstad is Professor in Organizational Behaviour and Leadership at BI Norwegian School of Business. She holds a PhD in Organizational Learning and Knowledge Creation from Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. Her research focus is on learning and knowledge capabilities at work, including learning across boundaries and knowledge sharing in virtual teams. She has been included in research on communication technology and integrated operations in the Petroleums Industry where she has several scientific publications. She has substantial scientific publications within leadership, learning at work, newcomers learning processes, and strategic knowledge creation for innovative work and change. She has written five books and several book chapters on these topics. She also works closely with Norwe- 416 About the Contributors