The utility business is experiencing big changes in the markets, systems, and regulations, all linked to various strategic factors. This complexity brings a mix of options and demands, pushing for a major business transformation. The resulting uncertainty challenges utility management in planning and decision-making, given the interconnected but seemingly conflicting initiatives.
Utilities must identity the risks and opportunities associated with:
– climate change
– decarbonization and carbon costs
– volatile fuel prices
– emerging clean technologies
– ‘smart’ technologies and enhanced communication networks
– expanding energy efficiency programs
– increasing customer expectations
– regulatory lag and disconnects
– competing 3rd party energy and related service providers
– impact of AI, IoT and Big data on business models
These major shifts in the industry are causing the need for re-thinking strategies in the board rooms. However, the technician still has to deal with the same ‘old’ installed asset base. This is causing significant gaps between board room strategy development and the day-to-day actions and decisions.
With over 30 years of industry experience, OHROS Consulting Group is uniquely positioned to provide well-founded insights, data-driven strategies, and specialized expertise. We support you in achieving key milestones throughout your energy transition. Together, we ensure the fastest and most effective path to results.
We can support you by performing a comprehensive review of your business environment and current strategy to determine where your organization stands in the light of the energy transition.
By reviewing your environment, current strategy, asset base, data management and workforce, and identifying and prioritizing gaps, we can help you to first focus on the quick wins and then calibrated long term improvements.
A typical Readiness Assessment consists of a comprehensive review of latest thinking on drivers and factors for consideration, strategic planning analysis, documents and plans to identify any gaps in the underlying data, and peer benchmark assessments. This creates a well-defined end-state in the form of required capabilities and a list of strategic gaps.
We see it as our mission to close the gap between strategy and operations. We support and guide companies into reaching their goals and fulfilling their missions. To help navigate companies on their ET route, OHROS Consulting Group develops Roadmaps and Implementation Plans to support you in reaching your sustainability and transformation goals.
Setting your strategies and goals is a great starting point to becoming a Utility of the Future. We help to build detailed roadmaps and comprehensive implementation plans which lay out required actions, organizational accountabilities for each major initiative or outcome, dependencies between actions, work streams, required investments, and expected outcomes.
A typical roadmap will consist of clear and concise steps plotted over a set timeline to deliver a multi-year strategy. Each step tells you what it is, why it is needed, critical aspects for consideration, and who owns it- with specific title and name. Creating accountability results in urgency.
Prior to roadmap creation, we recommend establishing detailed “Future State Vision Statements”. These will help to guide and formulate the overall Strategic Roadmap, which will consist of clear and concise steps plotted over a set timeline to deliver a multi-year strategy. Each step tells you what it is, why it is needed, critical aspects for consideration, and who owns it- with specific title and name.
Change Management strategy and planning is crucial in any large scale transformation like becoming a “Utility of the Future”. OHROS Consulting Group has over 30 years of experience in supporting key change areas and enablers of a smooth transition.
The level of change needed for becoming a Utility of the Future during this Energy Transition is nothing short of “Transformational”. Coordinating, navigating, organizing and driving all this work represents, in and of itself, an exceptional project management challenge. However, when we layer atop each initiative the level of change required of our employees, i.e. understanding and accepting the impact to process, culture, information flows and work practices, and the myriad personnel changes involved, the complexity seems extraordinary. At OHROS Consulting Group, we understand this challenge and can help you navigate through it with ease.
Change Management strategy and planning is crucial in a transformation like this. OHROS Consulting Group can support key change areas and enablers such as:
