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internal culture and engagement , before sharing the data with its employees and putting them through culture development workshops .
“ We talk to them about how each of our behaviours creates the culture , and what we may need to do differently to change our culture to one that is more achievement focused ,” said McDermott . “ Becoming more adaptable is a big change . We ’ re not expecting it to happen immediately , but it ’ s the start of a long-term program .”
TECH LEADERS With a recently upgraded starter system along with a myriad of business software platforms , TasNetworks signed off on implementing a business transformation project at the end of October with SAP at its core . According to Balcombe , it ’ s a twoyear implementation that will cost just over $ 58 million .
“ It ’ s not an IT project ,” said Balcombe . “ We very much view this as a business transformation project . Obviously there ’ s a lot of risk with large IT implementation , but we ’ ve done a lot of work making sure we resource it properly .
“ A big component of the project is change management , because the way people do things as result of this project is going to change .”
In addition , TasNetworks transmission system consists of a 220 kV and a 110 kV transmission network that connects generators to the distribution system , major industrial customers and the
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