Christopher Thomas
Director of Strategy and Insight @Isle Utilities
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Strategy and Insight @Isle Utilities
EDUCATION
University of Bath
1st, Masters, Mechanical Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER THOMAS
I work to establish mutually beneficial relationships between new ventures and corporates in order to drive innovation. My work focuses on transforming the infrastructure sector through the accelerated adoption of new physical engineering and digital technology in pursuit of societal, environmental and commercial goals.Experience:Innovation• Open innovation - defining strategic innovation challenges, developing and implementing open source strategies to meet them• Business Incubation - coaching business start-ups through to market readiness and commercial maturity. Commercialising ideas and ventures• Tech trends and adoption - market scanning, impact assessment and adoption strategies• Commercial Strategy - Developing robust business plans to achieve growth ambitionsBusiness Architecture• Operating Model Development - Designing integrated corporate systems i.e. developing organisation designs across the boundaries of people, process, system and governance• Benchmarking business capabilities and performance• Capability development - building new business capabilities and teams with particular experience in teams leading continuous improvement, project delivery and management and robotic process automation Business Change• Transformation - Design and delivery of integrated transformation programs across themes as diverse as workforce mgmt, asset mgmt, energy mgmt, commercial mgmt, people mgmt, customer mgmt• Continuous Improvement - Delivery of business improvements and process re-engineering based on lean techniques. Accredited to 2B by LCS• Knowledge Management - experienced in rapid knowledge transfer projects and techniques
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