Artemis Water Strategy

Water resilience for a thirsty future

Jul 20 2010

Water PLUS – Keys to Building a Scalable Water Business – Part 2

In my previous post I introduced the PLUS framework for water-technology scalability, and expanded upon the first two attributes: Software and Usability. Let’s explore the other two: Leverage and Partners.

Leverage means capitalizing — to exponential effect — on assets, processes and data already existing in the organizations you are serving. Water utilities, for example, have plenty of ‘leverageable’ assets, primarily deep and rich knowledge, held by experienced people. Tapping into this resource is not easy, but best-practices are a power-multiplier, and baking the combined experience of hundreds of professionals into an automated decision-support system is a great way to make your solution scalable. It’s the famous network effect. A great example: SmartMap by Thomson Mapping is a Water-specific CAD software that implements existing models as a baseline for new designs. [Read more…]

Written by Laura Shenkar · Categorized: Commentary, Corporate Efficiency, SAAS, Scaling, Smart Water · Tagged: business models, partners, revenue, SAAS, schneider electric, smartmap

Jul 08 2010

TaKaDu Finds a Partner in Schneider Electric

TaKaDu Partners with SchneiderTaKaDu, who we’ve written about previously here and here, recently announced they’ve partnered with Schneider Electric, a global energy management giant.The partnership exposes TaKaDu to Schneider Electric’s customers in more than 100 countries, where TaKaDu will be deployed to identify inefficiencies in water management in an effort to reduce energy usage.

As Pascal Bonnefoi, water segment director at Schneider Electric, stated in a recent interview, “The Energy Bill represents on average one-third of the operating cost of the water utility. We need to do more with less –  and water is not an exception.” [Read more…]

Written by Laura Shenkar · Categorized: Energy, Featured, News, Smart Water · Tagged: partnerships, schneider electric, smart water, TaKaDu

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