How a discovery sprint with Aker Solutions revealed NOK 40M in potential operational savings — hidden in data that already existed
On an offshore installation, hundreds of maintenance tasks, equipment checks, and operational decisions are running in parallel at any given moment — each one generating data, each one carrying cost.
The challenge wasn't a lack of data. It was that the data lived in silos: disconnected systems, manual processes, information that reached managers too late to act on. The operational picture existed. No one could see it.
The sprint began with the people doing the work — not the managers receiving the reports. We interviewed workers, supervisors, and operations managers to understand the real texture of their day: what decisions they were making, what information they needed, and what was consistently getting in the way.
Three decisions came out of that phase that shaped everything:
Workers in industrial environments don't install apps for work tools. It had to work in a browser, on the devices they already had.
The people closest to the operations had the most valuable real-time information. The tool needed to surface their input — not just aggregate data from systems above them.
Management dashboards were desirable — but not the place to start. Phase 1 was about capturing accurate operational data from the source. Phase 2 would turn that data into management visibility.
The discovery sprint identified a conservative estimate of NOK 40M in potential operational savings — not from cutting corners, but from making existing data visible, actionable, and usable at the point of decision.
The findings established a clear product direction for the next phase — grounded in the real jobs workers needed to get done, not assumptions made several floors above them.
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