Executives in Energy and Utilities companies these days face multiple challenges at the same time. In addition, by leveraging transformational leadership and the opportunities that technology presents, they must be able to turn them into competitive advantages.
The energy sector, which is more and more decentralised, is subject to certain contextual challenges, such as: a process of horizontal and vertical consolidation, the need to generate higher margins and resources to support investments, the need to take full advantage of the opportunities of digitalisation and smart solutions, the energy transition and electrification - with significant investments in traditional renewable sources, hydrogen and storage - with phase-outs of older technologies, the circular economy, efficient use of resources and sustainability, the opening of the market, competition and convergence of business models among companies in different sectors (e.g., energy, mobility) that focus on the same customers, and the emergence of new aggregators in Smart Territory logic.
Similarly, in other sectors, such as the management of environmental services, the need to increase waste recycling, to make facilities more and more sustainable and to manage the decommissioning of more traditional waste solutions, combined with a steady increase in disposal, results in the need for heavy investment to achieve the objectives of the circular economy.
In general, utilities will therefore increasingly play a key role in supporting the attractiveness and competitiveness of cities and territories.
Therefore, new generation skills will be indispensable in companies, linked to paradigm shifts and technological and digital leaps, to risk management in a global sense, as well as the ability to develop system projects, and to find and manage the necessary financial resources.
The Key2people Team has extensive industry experience - as well as an ability to attract talent from outside the industry - capable of bringing new approaches to liberalisation and cross-industry competition; of driving digital transformation and adapting it to the specificities and dynamics of the energy sector; of managing, analysing and interpreting large amounts of data that enable both increasingly efficient and lean Operations and a better understanding of customers in order to develop innovative and integrated services to be proposed to the territories.