What Gets Funded, Gets Done – Why Materiality Doesn’t Move Capital

by Michelle Wicmandy | Apr 18, 2026 | Featured Articles

Materiality assessments are everywhere. Yet, they rarely change what companies actually fund. PwC’s Global Investor Survey 2025 reinforces this gap. While most large companies conduct materiality assessments, fewer than half of investors rely heavily on them to...

Next-gen digital twins: automating model lifecycle management

by Soni Malik, Michelle Wicmandy | Apr 9, 2026 | Industry & Technical Publications

As refinery operations become more integrated and data-intensive, maintaining accurate digital twins has become increasingly difficult. Model drift—driven by feed variability, equipment changes, and data quality issues—can erode optimisation performance, increase...

From Design to Operational Reliability

by Jagadesh Donepudi, Michelle Wicmandy | Mar 23, 2026 | Industry & Technical Publications

Green hydrogen projects are often designed around static assumptions, even though they operate within highly dynamic energy systems. Variability in renewable power, electrolyser cycling, storage constraints, and downstream demand can create operational conditions that...

From Emissions Reporting to Operational Governance

by Carlos Ruiz, Nicolas Carrara, Michelle Wicmandy | Mar 15, 2026 | Industry & Technical Publications

Emissions reporting is shifting from a compliance exercise to an operational governance challenge. As sustainability disclosure requirements expand worldwide, refiners face increasing pressure to produce emissions data that is timely, auditable, traceable, and...

Your AI Stack Is Only as Good as the Architecture Behind It

by Michelle Wicmandy | Mar 12, 2026 | Featured Articles

Growth no longer scales through campaigns. It scales through architecture. Enterprise architecture (EA) is shifting from documentation to a coordination engine for AI, data and operating scale. According to the International Data Corporation, global enterprise...