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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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We need a new Energy Mantra- innovate, innovate, innovate.

Paul Hobcraft

Energy is a vital part of any country’s ability to be competitive, and we need to recognize that to innovate is the critical enabler to a clean energy future. To avoid the predicted consequences of climate change, the global energy system must rapidly reduce its emissions.

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Setting the right innovation challenge

Paul Hobcraft

Atos decided this year on an IT challenge seeking out to develop digital solutions that will support multiple decarbonization initiatives to help companies and society as a whole tackle climate change. Atos offers its first international student competition dedicated to technological innovation. Background and challenge.

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Innovation and creativity: the lasting competitive advantage

Jeffrey Phillips

Clearly things are changing quickly there, and everywhere. What needs to change? Everything All of these factors mean that our educational system needs to change, to reinforce creativity and expansive, divergent thinking. But it's not just elementary schools, high schools and colleges that must change.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Markets today are radically changing and are more demanding.

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The crucial role Innovation must play in the Energy system

Paul Hobcraft

Its ultimate result is to offer innovation that can continually look for re-imagining new market designs and business models to stimulate the changes and solutions for our future energy transformation. Energy is a vital part of any country’s ability to be competitive. We need an innovating mantra for energy.

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Increasing innovation focus on the end-user segments within the energy transition story

Paul Hobcraft

We also have to focus on the broader aspects of “energy transition” by re-engineering much of the existing infrastructure to create smart grids, the electrification of many industries and the ability to introduce e-mobility across the transport sector. The changes are transforming energy management.

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