How we help enterprises & industry players
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well underway. Technologies are available to help enterprises and verticals sharpen their competitive edge by bringing automation-powered efficiency, agility and increased safety, security and compliance to their processes. But it takes sound strategies and planning to successfully adopt and gain advantages from these technologies.
Bell Labs Consulting experts will help you ride the tide and stay ahead of the game:
- Fast-track to the future and see some of the big disruptions in your industry
- Understand key technology and network requirements and enablers
- Design a network evolution path that is tailored to your future business ambitions
Real customer impact
Helping an APAC utility operator become a digital utility leader
Challenge:
Our customer is one of the top electric utility brands in the world, and wants to become a digital utility leader. Its growth ambitions demand that it derive value from its strategic assets while addressing the dramatic changes facing the energy industry. Its key challenges include:
- Meeting the network performance targets set by regulators
- Improving energy efficiency and reducing OPEX
- Building an always-on, reliable, secure ICT network that can support rapid rollouts of devices and mission-critical services
Our task was to help the customer unlock this nexus of new value.
Methodology & Approach:
Adopting a future-back methodology infused with industry best practices and deep comprehension of technologies and utility applications, we structured the consultancy into four streams:
- Diagnose: As-is and benchmarking against peers
- Design: Forming the future mode of operations (FMO)
- Flight plan: Ensuring that the customer gets its money’s worth
- Build capability – Competence and tools
Value Delivered & Insights:
We provided the following insights to the utility:
- Electricity grid network applications and maturity are typically ahead of internal ICT network capabilities.
- The grid of the future (GOTF) will not succeed without an ICT network of the future (NOTF).
We determined that a strategic, comprehensive NOTF program based on private LTE networks would enable the utility to meet a range of future needs with scalability and economy. This program would provide the much-needed uplift to enable the realize the following value, including a 25 percent total cost of ownership (TCO) savings.
