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CIO Magazine April 2008 talks to Phil Pavitt, CIO of Transport for London on how he aims to harness technology to serve Londoners, travellers and visitors to the Olympics in 2012. Outsourcing guru Dr Richard Sykes discusses the future of cloud computing and its ability to provide a service revolution, dubbed Service 2.0.
INDUSTRY > Utilities
Industry Analysis - Utilities
By far the biggest event in the utilities sector in the 2007 calendar is the EU-wide electricity and gas market deregulation, which takes place on 1 July. This is predicted to drive supplier consolidation as the ‘race for scale’ hots up.
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CIO 100 COMPANIES IN Utilities
16. Centrica
The markets in which Centrica, the UK’s biggest residential energy supplier, operates are changing. As gas demand increases globally, UK continental shelf production is in decline and new sources of gas are needed to fill the gap. Gas prices in the UK have been on an upward trend and are being driven to higher, previously unseen levels.
56. National Grid
National Grid is currently establishing a shared services function in the UK, which includes finance, HR and supply chain management. As part of that change it is taking a process centric view of its business and transforming all its end-to-end processes. It is also replacing its legacy back office systems with a single instance of SAP.
66. EDF Energy
EDF Energy’s IT organisation has emerged as a force for business improvement and technology that is trusted by the business, according to Benoit Laclau, managing director of business improvement and technology.
90. British Energy
British Energy is the UK’s largest single producer of electricity, accounting for 20 per cent of the nation’s consumption from a predominantly nuclear power base. The company runs eight nuclear plants and one coal-fired power station, based in Eggborough, North Yorkshire, that it acquired in 2000.
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