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it ' s expected to be 12 years . Companies need to be hyper-focused on their business model and their design and identifying disruptors and managing those to get ahead of them , if they want to be around in 10 years . Partners and the skills and perspectives they bring are a huge part of doing that ,” he added .
“ For example , Computex has been a huge help to us over the years . They helped us design and implement our data centre and did the same thing around our disaster recovery programme .”
Other areas Computex have been involved include a redesign of the Plains field networks : “ They ' ve been a great partner , very flexible . We accomplished pretty significant things in a very short amount of time .” said Lindseth .
Houston as a technological hive Unlike Silicon Valley , where it is high risk and potentially high reward , there ' s a lot of companies in Houston that are highly profitable , but haven ' t gotten the most out of technology . Lindseth believes it really increases the opportunity and also decreases the risk .
“ The city is set up to have a great trajectory over the next 10 years , I think it ' ll continue to be the energy capital of the world , even as it transitions into renewables . And part of the value of collaborating is diversifying into other industries and seeing how they do things just a little bit different . I speak and collaborate a great deal , both in oil and gas and outside of it . I ’ ve learned a lot that way , and there ' s ample opportunity to do that here .” said Lindseth .
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