Knowledge Management Initiatives at British Petroleum

BP, which was founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Iran, had emerged as one of the leading oil exploration companies in the world. Its primary activities included exploration and production, and refining and marketing of oil and gas (through its network of subsidiaries engaged in the chemical, exploration, gas, power and solar industries)...

The clients were allocated to five different groups (Refer Table I) selected for the VTP. The groups were selected on the basis of the clarity of their operational goals and nature of the work performed by them...

In 1995, Browne was appointed CEO of BP. Encouraged by the success of BP's first KM initiative - VTP - he decided to implement KM across the entire organization. For this purpose, a global task force was created in late 1996, whose objective was to devise a formal KM strategy for BP...

In the mid-1990s, the governments of several countries across the world as well as corporates expressed concerns over environmental issues such as global warming and the emission of harmful gasses into the atmosphere...