Utilities
Times are changing for the utilities industry
Times are changing for the utilities industry
Following strong financial demands from the water regulator, Yorkshire Water needed to assess and find new ways to improve operational efficiency within its maintenance function. With BearingPoint’s Active Manager program, the company achieved higher productivity by empowering its managers to proactively lead their teams and enhance performance.
When people think about the external workforce, they often refer to contingent staff and purchased services, an area typically covered by legacy technology solutions like MSPs and VMS. But those don’t address a growing problem now: how to handle management duties as more outside workers are being brought into asset-intensive industries to maintain and upgrade plants or build new facilities.
This article will examine in more detail the complexity of contractor labor, its different use cases and a potential path forward for companies looking to gain control over this spend category.
The Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing wanted to create a sustainable, climate neutral and economically sensible energy future. To accomplish this, the Ministry turned to BearingPoint and Fraunhofer IEE to provide a viable plan for the transformation.
CEOs and Boards of Directors across the globe are struggling to understand how digitalization, the process of becoming a digital business, can be leveraged to achieve the growth they are seeking. However many of these same leaders are focusing primarily on operational efficiency and wonder why they are not seeing the growth results they desire. European business leaders must understand that expanding and diversifying their business model portfolio plays a significant role in realizing growth. In this report, we explain how to deliver on ambitious growth goals by business model innovation and how to move towards the new value-creative asset-light with a blended business model.
