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17.02.2022 By Stephen Lorenzen, Georg Benhöfer and Lars Zimmermann

Introducing carbon contracts for difference to transform the energy industry

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Achieving Germany’s ambitious climate targets is currently the talk of the town. One of the measures announced by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, BMWi) as part of this are carbon contracts for difference (CCfD). We explain what this is all about in our blog post.

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Completing a large-scale project successfully always depends on the multitude of small moving parts coming together. Implementing a project management office (PMO) can help here. In our blog post, we will give you a brief insight into our adesso Public PMO and the key topics associated with it.

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Companies employ staff in different roles, which means they have different areas of responsibility. These employees often possess above-average specialist knowledge in a subject area or special skills. But this knowledge is often – consciously or unconsciously – not shared. This creates an environment in which the conditions do not promote the growth of knowledge and prevent it from being used in a targeted way to advance the company and to offer real added value to (potential) customers. How can a company promote knowledge sharing through a community of practice and benefit (potential) customers and interested parties? I will explain how in this blog post using the example of the community of practice for the topic of company pension schemes.

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In my previous blog posts in this series, I described what the persona of a new customer might look like in five to ten years. In the most recent post, I then used this persona to derive the requirements of Generation Alpha for insurance providers. In this blog post, I will focus on the customer journey and explain why insurance providers should engage with Generation Alpha and the potential it holds.

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Digital ecosystems and platforms are ushering in a new era in the development of innovative business models. In the banking market, too, the principle of platform-driven business models is gaining ground, as is exemplified by emerging concepts such as open banking and beyond banking. My blog post explains the reasons driving this shift and points out the obstacles that stand in the way of transformation.

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Although S/4HANA Embedded Analytics and BW/4HANA address different reporting requirements, both solutions complement each other and can be fully integrated. In my blog post, I will show you where the exact differences lie and explain why having more options means having more possibilities at the same time.

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Once a software development project has been completed, one of the major signs that it was successful is if the end product meets the customer’s expectations. For this to happen, what the customer wants has to be communicated to the project team, which then needs to implement everything on a technical level. This is where vision videos can help. I will explain exactly what these are in my blog post.

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Over time, reinsurers have built up considerable methods for identifying, assessing and reducing or even avoiding risks. Many of these methods could help us in our day-to-day lives in the pandemic as a supplement to the RKI’s recommendations. I will explain how the whole thing looks in concrete terms in my blog post.

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Insurance providers are no strangers to investing in IT, with more and more being spent every year. This is a good thing since the lack of urgency when it comes to digitalisation in recent years is now beginning to come back to haunt companies. Processes are being actively rebuilt, modernised and the application landscape is even being completely renewed in some cases. This applies first and foremost to insurance sales application processes, which I would like to introduce to you in this blog post.

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