Identifying, quantifying, and closing skills gaps at EDF Energy
Learn why leaders at EDF Energy are building data skills capability to drive efficiency gains.
Industry
Energy and utilities
Company size
10,000+
Region
UK
50%
potential time savings identified with data upskilling
The goal
EDF Energy partnered with Multiverse to assess skills and competencies across several business units.
"While many organisations know instinctively that they have skills gaps, it’s a challenge to identify them, quantify them, and close the gaps. We have big ambitions, including in helping the UK to decarbonise to reach Net Zero, and we can’t let skills gaps hold us back. Identifying and closing those gaps is helping us deliver on our goals, and enhanced data skills across EDF to help our customers save carbon and cash."
Lillian Philip
Senior Leader of Commercial Operations at EDF
The Multiverse skills analysis found that, of employees who use data daily, 19.9 hours a week were spent on data tasks, including predictive modeling, engineering data, producing visualisations, managing spreadsheets and analysing data.
The results
The skills assessment found that almost half of that time could be saved, if employees were more skilled users of data.
Identifying room for efficiency gains, EDF launched a Data Academy, enrolling staff onto apprenticeship programmes.
"At EDF, we recognise that a data transformation takes more than new technology, change needs people to create a culture that uses data to take action. We partnered with Multiverse to actually find where the company would benefit from building broader capabilities beyond data teams, enhanced existing skills, and put in place the Data Academy to deliver them."
Lillian Philip
Senior Leader of Commercial Operations at EDF
50%
potential time savings identified with data upskilling
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