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Kongsberg

Blazing a

Digital Trail

Earlier this year ubiquitous technol- ogy company Kongsberg launched

Kongsberg Digital, a new subsidiary established to foster and grow an in- dustrial sof ware environment, start- ing out with about 500 employees. We met with Hege Skryseth, the com- pany’s President and also the Chief

Digital Of cer of Kongsberg, for her insights on size, shape and direction of the new entity.

By Greg Trauthwein ou see some opportunities here,” is how Skryseth is a realist regarding current market conditions per-

Hege Skryseth neatly summarizes the po- vasive in many maritime and offshore oil and gas sectors. Not tential for the digital revolution to make deterred, long-term (and in fact, short term) she believes com- maritime and offshore operations more ef- panies – with the new generation of internet natives joining ? cient. Skryseth, who previously ran Mi- the workforce and the real need to cut costs now – are becom-

Ycrosoft’s business in Norway, is a software ing more amenable to leveraging the data at hand.

industry veteran, with Kongsberg for about 2.5 years. She is “We currently see the market conditions impacting the oil and determined to help lead the tide of change in this pair of con- gas and maritime markets, and with that we see a willingness to “ servative industries, working non-stop to out? t new ships and change, and an openness to new systems,” said Skryseth. “But rigs with the latest software solutions to assist in ensuring cost most companies are just at the beginning of realizing exactly ef? cient and safe operations. what digitalization can really do for their operations. So many

While ambitious to get the new company up and running, of the discussions center on ‘how can we join forces to see

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