We work with energy providers, utilities operators, grid and network organisations, renewable specialists, and technology vendors to shape digital strategies that reduce operational risk, optimise asset performance, and enable intelligent decision-making. From discovery and feasibility analysis through to roadmap creation and delivery oversight, we provide an end-to-end strategic partnership grounded in deep sector knowledge and engineering expertise.
Our mission is to support digital progress across energy and utilities by helping organisations harness innovation in a way that is safe, efficient, compliant, and aligned with long-term operational goals.
Understanding Strategy and Innovation in Energy & Utilities
The energy and utilities sector is undergoing rapid transformation driven by decarbonisation, distributed generation, regulatory scrutiny, and rising expectations for real-time visibility and control. Organisations must balance operational resilience with the adoption of new digital technologies such as IoT, predictive analytics, automation, digital twins, and smart asset platforms.
A well-defined digital strategy helps unify systems, streamline processes, strengthen governance, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable value. Modern operations require integrated architectures that connect SCADA, IoT sensors, ERP systems, asset management platforms, and field service tooling. They also depend on secure data flows, interoperability, and strong cybersecurity practices aligned to regulatory requirements.
Strategic innovation enables organisations to explore new business models, improve network efficiency, optimise generation and distribution, and create better customer experiences. With the right approach, digital technologies act not as stand-alone tools but as enablers of long-term resilience and sustainability.
Our Strategy and Innovation Process
Our process begins with a comprehensive discovery phase designed to build a full understanding of your operational environment, systems landscape, commercial goals, and regulatory responsibilities. We work with leadership teams, engineers, field operators, and digital specialists to identify challenges, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. This collaborative approach ensures your strategy is grounded in real operational needs and aligns with organisational priorities.
Following discovery, we assess digital maturity, evaluate existing architectures, and benchmark your capabilities against industry standards. Using these insights, we design a tailored digital strategy that defines the principles, technologies, and integration patterns required to support modern, connected operations. This may include cloud or edge architecture recommendations, data governance frameworks, IT/OT alignment, and clear requirements for interoperability, security, and reliability.
Once the strategy is defined, we support the creation of delivery roadmaps, business cases, technical specifications, and governance models. Throughout implementation, we provide ongoing architectural oversight, risk management, and optimisation guidance to ensure that the strategy is executed effectively and remains aligned with evolving technologies and regulatory expectations.
Benefits of Strategy and Innovation
A well-structured strategy provides clarity and direction, enabling organisations to modernise operations with confidence. By unifying systems and improving data flows, teams gain better visibility across assets, networks, and field activities, resulting in improved operational performance. Enhanced access to real-time insights supports smarter planning, faster decision-making, and reduced downtime across critical infrastructure.
Strengthening your approach to cybersecurity, data governance, and IT/OT integration reduces operational risk and ensures compliance with regulatory standards. With a clear digital roadmap, organisations can adopt emerging technologies in a more controlled and scalable way, accelerating innovation without compromising safety or reliability.
For customers and stakeholders, improved service quality and operational stability build trust and support long-term objectives such as net-zero commitments. Ultimately, a robust digital strategy ensures your investments deliver sustainable, measurable impact across the entire energy and utilities lifecycle.
Why Choose 6B for Strategy and Innovation?
Deep experience working across energy networks, utilities operations, field service environments, and asset-intensive industries.
Combined strategic consultancy and technical engineering expertise, ensuring recommendations are practical and delivery-ready.
Strategies built on interoperability, scalability, and regulatory compliance, aligned with standards such as NIS, ISO 27001, and sector-specific safety requirements.
Reusable reference architectures, accelerators, and integration patterns that reduce complexity and de-risk delivery.
End-to-end involvement, from discovery and design through delivery oversight and optimisation.
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Readiness checklist for Strategy and Innovation
- Define your organisational priorities (e.g., resilience, efficiency, automation, customer experience, net-zero).
- Document key systems, interfaces, and operational pain points across IT, OT, and field operations.
- Confirm regulatory, cybersecurity, and safety frameworks that may influence your digital plans.
- Identify workflows, assets, or services where digital improvement would have measurable impact.
- Prepare any architectural diagrams, audits, technology assessments, or roadmaps that exist today.
- Confirm internal stakeholders who will contribute to discovery (e.g., operations, engineering, digital, compliance).
- Consider dependencies on legacy platforms, ageing infrastructure, or vendor constraints that may affect future planning.
Speak To Our Strategy and Innovation Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital energy product or extending an existing solution with Strategy and Innovation, 6B brings the technical expertise, energy and utilities insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
