Digital and AI Roadmaps for an Energy Leader

Energy services businesses are adding digital and AI features to their offers and operations. With many possible initiatives, leaders need roadmaps their business units help shape and can commit to. 

Two business lines of a global environmental and energy services group each needed a roadmap: its North American energy services business, and its energy management and advisory business.

The two business lines had two different needs: 

• Energy services: revise its digital and AI roadmap with input from business unit managers, validated by leadership before the budget deadline. 
• Energy management and advisory: get an outside view on its mature software roadmap to prioritize the next AI and digital features. 

Sia applied one method to both mandates: 

• Single methodology: interviews, workshops, benchmarking and surveys to engage stakeholders and stress-test both roadmaps. 
• Joint ideation: findings turned into prioritized, actionable initiatives through joint ideation sessions. 

Each leadership team gained a roadmap it could commit to: 

• Energy services: a roadmap delivered and validated with leadership from six business units ahead of the budget cycle. 
• Energy management and advisory: a prioritized roadmap built from a competitor benchmark, client and employee surveys, and a collaborative prioritization exercise focused on growth. 
• The same Sia team on both mandates became the group's digital and AI partner for these businesses. 

By combining one rigorous method with genuine stakeholder engagement, Sia helps energy services businesses prioritize the digital and AI initiatives that matter.