At oil and gas giant, Woodside, early investment in tech would prove to be “a lifesaver” when COVID-19 hit according to Sky News Business Editor Ticky Fullerton.
Ms Fullerton said at Woodside, the “internet of things” was well embedded as every employee already had their own laptop.
“We’d kinda been practising with this, but it was within the confines of the office,” Woodside CEO Peter Coleman told Sky News.
“Now if you think about then, our communications system that we used, our virtual meeting space and so forth, went from less than 200 meetings per day on that, and that’s probably being generous, to more than two and a half thousand meeting per day, in a period of five days.
“So, the system ramped up really, really quickly.”
“Woodside’s early embrace of technology was no accident,” Ms Fullerton said.
Woodside was also the first commercial business in Australia to join IBM’s Q Network in quantum research.
“It’s an important relationship for us,” Mr Coleman said.
“And it’s obviously a testament to the relationships that we’ve built with IBM over the past few years”.
“And the trust Woodside has in IBM and vice versa”.