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PBI is coordinating a two-year development project for a zero emission fully electric short-sea/RoPax ship concept and business case, together with key players in the marine and energy industry. Beyond cutting edge, a first of a kind, and a giant leap forward in reducing emissions in shipping.
PBI is coordinating a consortium project with partners Rauma Marine Constructions, Viking Line, Åbo Akademi University and Kempower. The project, named Decatrip, aims to develop solutions that enable carbon-neutral shipping with initial focus on the Turku and Stockholm. It is estimated that this target can be reached by 2027. Business Finland has granted significant funding to the consortium, totalling EUR 1,596,000.
Viking Line, ESL Shipping and Attracs have recently joined forces with Åbo Akademi University and PBI Research Institute and are now taking the lead to solve the most pressing obstacles for reducing emissions and improving transparency in the industry.
Infrastructure investment needs are on the rise worldwide – surely a challenge for countries with budget constraints, but a good possibility for change. Now is the perfect time for financially stable countries like Finland to think through how they will maximize the value of planned large-scale infrastructure investments.
It is now, more than ever, important to maintain remote working employees´ satisfaction and productivity. In partnership with Qualtrics, PBI is offering a quick and easy digital solution to listen to how employees are experiencing working remotely.
Customer experience impacts profitability. To ensure project profitability and customer satisfaction the supplier must keep an eye on how customer experience is developing and make sure minor problems do not escalate. By applying machine learning customer experience risks can be identified early and acted upon before things get out of hand.
Customer churn is defined as the process of a customer ending its business with a specific brand, product or service.
The Finnish government is committed to the European Union’s targets for reuse and recycling of municipal waste. These targets aim to promote a circular economy and reduce landfill waste and waste incineration. By 2025, 55% of all municipal waste needs to be recycled, and 65% by 2035. To achieve the outlined targets, Finland needs to witness a significant improvement in recycling behaviour, as current estimates indicate a mere 40% recycling rate for municipal waste. Likewise, municipal waste companies need to see clear value in processing increased amounts of separated waste.
Of late, the proverbial wave of renewable energy that has swept over parts of the world has been coupled with the clearer understanding that in order to fully utilize their planet-saving potential, the issue of intermittency needs to be addressed and solved; Intermittency, in energy industry jargon, meaning the fact that the sun does not always shine, the wind does not always blow, and actual non-proverbial waves do not always sweep the oceans.
Megaprojects are large-scale infrastructure projects with investment budgets exceeding USD 1 billion.
Capacity Markets (CMs) is an increasingly popular policy measure being considered in European electricity markets with the aim of securing electricity supply at the lowest cost to consumers as well as supporting new investment into power generation assets. In the UK, it is already up and running and constitutes a key part of their Electricity Market Reform program. Similar auction-based Capacity Markets are being formed in Ireland, France, and Italy.
The focus in an ecosystem should be in maximizing the value of existing information (and in creating new flows using smart technology). The better the existing information can be used and processed, the better the profit generated by this data.
At PBI, our vision is to create and implement new knowledge for a more sustainable world. This is something that we are very proud of and feel like we are one of the few companies that actually have the methods to drive sustainable change.
Today the vast majority of companies claim to provide solutions which add more customer value than traditional product-service offerings.
Many companies struggle with industrial services, especially when it comes to harvesting their full financial potential.
In my previous blog post I introduced the idea that your customer is just as important a promoter for your business case as you are – as a B2B sales person.
Industrial and infrastructure investments are constantly becoming more complicated and sizable. At the same time there are alarmingly high cost overruns, delays and underperformance.
The business case should not be a back-office exercise, but rather something you prepare to build together with your customer.
One can’t deny the importance of regulations, government support and other policy measures in shaping markets and industries.
how do you get into a discussion on investment value in the first place, and how do you get your customer to openly talk about your solution’s potential revenue streams in an intricate way in the context of the markets they are active in and in their portfolio of other assets or businesses?
Based on our experience, industrial companies fail to identify aftersales and service sales potential found in their existing data sources.
First, let us get one thing straight: it is not about goods versus services or services being better than goods.
Leadership has traditionally been something related to CEO’s, ex. Steve Jobs, these figures have been exalted by their person to near divine dimensions.
Large infrastructure investments in Europe are in average two years delayed and record a 60% cost overrun.