So many success stories, specifically across different industries, rely on collaborations and co-creations from essential ecosystem design and thinking. This is partly why I focus on the Energy Transition and Industrial Transformation for my innovation and ecosystem work, as the Energy sector’s potential is enormous for working together and scaling emerging solutions. Managing Ecosystems will become essential.
Energy collaborations are occurring but slower than we ideally want to undertake the massive changes needed to switch energy sources, upgrade systems and infrastructure, and provide reliable energy sources from radically different fuel sources where electricity will dominate our consumers’ needs.
Just take one of our more significant Energy challenges and recognize it needs massive collaboration
To quote from IEA, “Electricity is central to the functioning of modern societies and economies – and
its importance is only growing as technologies that run on electricity, such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, become increasingly popular.”
“Power generation is currently the largest source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world, but it is also the sector leading the transition to net zero emissions through the rapid expansion of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.”
“Ensuring consumers have secure and affordable access to electricity while also reducing global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is one of the core challenges of the energy transition” Source IEA Report Electricity 2024.
To get to any successful point of achieving an Energy Transition by 2050, we have to innovate harder, collaborate more and exchange our knowledge and understanding.
Collaborations are occurring but at patchy and slow rates to form and deliver. We need ecosystem thinking and design into a more central solution to accelerate the changes we need within all the different parts of the Energy Transition. My last post highlights some of the areas emerging.
Fostering collaboration and co-creation within the Energy Industry is crucial for navigating the complex landscape of transition. The need to share IP, knowledge, research, market insights, and general improvements that can scale and be (universally) adopted propels the entire industry forward.
We need more success stories or even Ecosystems emerging
These success stories demonstrate ecosystem thinking is pivotal in driving the energy transition and creating positive impacts across industries. Collaborations between stakeholders with diverse expertise are crucial for addressing complex energy challenges and achieving sustainable outcomes.
I do not doubt that ecosystem thinking and design will form an even more prominent part of the energy transition in 2024 and beyond. Collaborations will be at the forefront of thinking to tackle complex challenges and provide solutions that can rapidly scale on platform solutions.
We cannot afford to “go it alone” anymore, we need to pool resources, exchange, collaborate and co-create just simply because the Energy Transition is a massive undertaking needing this shared understanding and drive to scaling the change.
The energy transition is a shared challenge, and by adopting a more open collaborative mindset, the collective group can amplify their impact and positioning, increase resilience and adoption and drive meaningful change.
I am looking to learn of more (ecosystem) collaborations to build out on their understanding, example and learning to work in different ways than as independent entities.
