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DGS Ideation Challenge

Introduction:

Challenge and prize competitions are one tool to drive innovation and solve problems whether technical, scientific, or creative. One type of competition is ideation, which allows you to collect ideas from a wide and diverse population to solve a particular business problem. Ideation is the process of generating and developing new ideas to solve a problem or improve a product, process, or service. Ideas could include suggestions, approaches, plans, proposals, designs, or other proposed solutions in written, graphic, or video form. The ideation phase is the first of several stages, where Ideas will be implemented in later phases. This competition was established in 2018.

Description and Agenda (2018): New Core lab Facility Challenge

The event is composed of four different stages: presentation of challenges, ideation process, presentation of solutions and idea implementation.

Presentation of Challenges: (Morning Session)

  1. EOSD subject matter experts present the different challenges to the participants
  2. Participants select challenges of interest after Q&A session with the SMEs
  3. Participants choose their team members
  4. Each team will have up to three members
  5. EOSD will lead a core lab tour to show case the challenges
  6. Lunch will be served to the participants at EXPEC Auditorium

Ideation Process: (Afternoon session and continues to the morning session of the 5th day)

Teams collaborate to address their challenges, at their location of preference

Each team is required to prepare a short presentation illustrating their solutions and proposed designs in a format of their choice (written, graphic, video etc.)

Presentation of Solutions (Morning Session of 5th day)

  1. Participating teams will present their solutions to a panel of judges and SMEs
  2. Judges will evaluate each solution based on its creativity, novelty and practicality
  3. The audience vote will contribute to each team overall score
  4. Judges will announce the 3 winning teams and award the participants

Implementation of Idea:

The winning team will present their proposal to Exploration management and help incorporate their design in the new core-lab facility

Guidelines and rules:

Challenges:

EOSD will present a set of challenges regarding their new core facilities

The challenge should target professionals of all upstream departments without requiring extensive knowledge and expertise of a specific topic

Participants:

  • Each professional needs to secure his or her management endorsement to participate
  • Participation is open for both young and senoir professionals
  • The participants must be present and fully engaged throughout all stages of the event
  • Each participant is expected to contribute to the final team presentation

Judges:

In addition to the SMEs from EOSD, invited judges, whom are frequent users of the core facility will serve in the judging panel to evaluate all the teams’ solutions

Each expert is required to attend the first and last stages of the event

The experts from EOSD must be reachable during the ideation stage to answer any questions or provide any data necessary to the participants

Evaluation Guidelines:

Each judge will evaluate each team based on their presented solution during the third stage of the event

The scoring criteria are 25% on creativity, 20% on presentation skills, timing and slide quality, and 35% on the validity and practicality of the idea, 10% on Safety and 10% is from the audience vote.

The audience vote will contribute to the overall score

Winning Team:

  • Three winning teams will be announced
  • The winning teams will present their idea in front of Exploration management and help incorporate it in the new facilities design.
  • This idea can be developed further after the competition to meet all necessary requirements before deployment.

Challenges (2018):

  1. Cuttings Archival, Viewing & Sampling
  2. Core Cage & Core Boxes
  3. Core Processing V-table

Winners (2018):

First Place: Challenge 2– Fatimah Alsinan, Salma Saif, Fawwaz Khaldi

Second Place: Challenge 3– Talal Mutairi, Hassan Hulaily, Mohammed Altuwaijri

Third Place: Challenge 1- Waheed Basrawi, Hani Boukhamsin, Andrew Henderson