It isn’t the big that beat the small, but the fast that beat the slow.

Fast paced change makes business and life itself, exciting. Innovation, when implemented effectively, will reduce costs, boost margins and deliver a competitive advantage – or at the very least ensure you keep pace with your customers.

However, badly managed innovation can also result in hefty costs, wasted time, a surrender of competitive advantage and a damaged reputation.

This is why businesses must have the right approach to digital change. They must identify the right partners, who can help them deliver successful and reliable technology innovation at scale. With the right mindset, and right delivery partners, there are few problems technology can’t solve or opportunities it can’t seize.

Finally, the message is getting through. Our way of living is no longer sustainable, and businesses must now take radical measures, in line with new legislation, to overhaul their approach to the climate crisis.

Given the significant public interest and pressure, businesses must move quickly to avoid any risk of a public fallout. However, you mustn’t jump before you can walk.

The power distribution market is about to experience a period of rapid change and significant downward cost pressures introduced by the regulator.

To deliver this change, we need to change in ways the industry hasn’t seen before. It will be an integral part of delivering carbon net zero.

For the UK’s Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industries, change is no longer negotiable. These industries are facing a crossroads where they need to adopt new technologies quickly and securely, or risk losing market share to more agile start-ups and challengers.

In order to stay relevant, the businesses in these sectors, which are often restricted by complex legacy systems, must embrace digital agility. But with any change comes increased risk that must be mitigated to maintain consumer trust.

At Expleo we’re experts in quality. We help financial institutions of all sizes to adapt to an ever-changing digital world, building quality and trust at all stages, helping our clients delight their customers at every interaction

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, a bad-news story about safety, usability or reliability, can eat into consumer trust ratings and even your share price.

Whilst the pace of change is incredible and speed to market doubly important now as it was five years ago, we must never lose sight of the fact that systems quality is not only necessary, but vital for consolidating reputation and market positioning.

As such, the value in always doing the right things right, first time, is critical. This means integrating quality within the design, build and delivery stages of any project. Simply by focusing on quality, you enable the whole operating delivery process to speed up.

As we dive deeper into this modern technology race, the opportunity to enable our sustainable future is at the forefront of our ambition.

By asking and answering the questions the world needs the answers to, like creating a carbon-neutral future, we build a stronger and deeper relationship with both our clients and employees.

As we truly understand the challenges and potential opportunities in front of our clients, we are in a unique and powerful position to help facilitate bringing about real change through the implementation of successful innovation.

The pace of change and alternative directions the UK is headed in makes it an extremely exciting period for innovation.

In today’s volatile consumer economy, there is no let up for technology-intensive businesses. Those that stand still quickly fall behind.

By understanding what is needed to deliver quality, businesses will have the best chance of boosting outcomes, improving customer satisfaction and seizing long-term advantage.

For assuring quality, the key challenge is delivering outcomes in innovative, efficient and cost-effective ways. To do this, businesses need to place a quality thread through their product management channel. In turn, delivering significant cost savings whilst reducing time to market. This is a critical element for any business wanting to achieve greater levels of business agility.

Innovation is at the forefront of everything we do.

Whether that be cross industry or new techniques and tooling processes, doing things differently, but collaboratively, is integral.

Testing is no different. It needs to change from the still prevalent approach of separating manual, automation and NFT testing into separate entities, and embody a more unified approach.

No one business is the same, but its products might be. As demand rises, so too does competition. The emphasis falls on the product, and its quality, to retain the customer.

The assurance of testing and quality throughout the product life cycle is vital in today’s consumer market.

In times of high disruption and market saturation, it can be tough for businesses to keep up with competition, let alone set the pace in the eyes of their customers.

Because of this, we do things differently. Challenging the norm is at the heart of what we do.

We’re tired of innovation for innovation’s sake. Too often do businesses lose sight of the problems they’re solving and the value they’re creating. It’s the brands that create an alliance between business objectives and digital possibilities that stand the best chance of winning the technology race.

Understanding the complex challenges facing today’s businesses should be the first consideration for any innovator.

To retain a competitive edge, businesses must be able to adapt to emerging trends, and provide solutions to market challenges quickly and effectively. We call this business agility.

Most businesses will implement ‘agile’ ways of working at a product and service development level. But true business agility – an imperative for any company wanting to maintain a competitive edge – extends far beyond that.

Businesses must have agile strategies in place throughout the whole enterprise, allowing the business to move faster than its environment to successfully fend off competition and capitalise on market opportunities.

In the UK alone, there are 90,000 financial services firms employing 1.2 million people contributing over £130bn to the UK economy.

Given its value and responsibilities, the importance of assuring the security and integrity of the finance sector cannot be stated enough. Reputations take years to build, but seconds to destroy, consumer trust is tantamount.

The future of finance lies with the customer experience. The sector must ensure that consumers have greater usability and seamless accessibility to their own finances, without compromising service or reliability.

The fintech industry has evolved at an incredible rate, but it seems there are still evolutions around every corner, with challenger banks like Monzo and Starling putting pressure on the rest of the financial services sector to step outside their comfort zone, innovate rapidly and embrace a fail-fast culture.

Our own research into people’s attitudes toward technology highlighted easier and faster banking as one of the things that gives people (especially older demographics) real value to their quality of life.

As such, there is a real onus on banks and financial service companies to ensure they have the digital infrastructure in place to deliver new services and innovations that are right first time.

Many people still believe that the energy industry is about ‘keeping the lights on’ and maintaining an average level of  service.

But, energy systems all over the world are undergoing vast change to enable the transition to zero carbon. Businesses from various industry sectors are exploring how to do this right now, and as this movement gathers greater momentum and investment, it will result in new technologies that can truly change the world.

Assuring the function and life-span of these innovations is critical to success. This is where technology consultants will have an increasingly significant role to play in the coming years.

Our team is in a unique position to change the global approach to energy systems. Through client participation and empowering our delivery teams to create their own, we will lead and drive the change everyone wants to see and the earth itself needs right now.