Collaboration

Global Leadership & Technology Exchange (GLTE) GLTE creates a global exchange for innovative ideas and leadership concepts for a select group of companies to collaborate along, and between, value chains leading to real, multi-lateral projects which will re-shape industry relationships. GLTE is a unique consortium, which has been designed, assembled, directed and facilitated by Xyntéo, to help enterprises share technology, practices and experience by means of collaborative innovation to enhance both their environmental and business performance (click here to view video). Xyntéo co-ordinates GLTE such that senior management can debate and recommend new strategies. At present, GLTE is focused on a theme of innovation within energy and environment, where participants can accelerate progress on real objectives by using each other and Xyntéo for immediate challenge and assistance as well as absorbing insights from carefully selected external experts to help shape their thinking. GLTE is a continuous programme, where the founding participants came together to explore how to expand and push forward work on collaborative innovation. The Partners share solutions and breakthroughs that can benefit their companies and others as industry wrestles with the conflicting pressures of rising prices, intense competition and the demands of sustainable development.

The ambition with GLTE is to exchange leadership experience and technologies with those who can help the participants shape their particular industries. Technology and research shared by Partners of the Exchange could help, for example, improve energy costs, reduce emissions and transform logistics management. The GLTE is not a think tank. It is a business exchange where recommendations and strategic breakthroughs will be applied at Partner companies, helping to improve their bottom line performance. The partnership of the exchange is expected to be rotating, with chief executives of Partner companies sharing the chairmanship as the exchange tackles new projects. GLTE Partners believe that companies in non-competing sectors can collaborate openly to create mutually beneficial industrial opportunities. Feedback and recommendations from the GLTE will be shared and published to help other companies address environmental problems and logistical challenges as they expand.

GLTE Partnership All participating companies have real objectives to meet in terms of innovation and all are finding that their facilitated interaction, coupled with judicious input of external ideas, is driving them to make more progress together than they could do alone.

What does GLTE deliver? In general: New Knowledge, New Insights, New Networks. More specifically: A unique way of seeing and understanding the evolving mega- and micro-trends affecting global enterprises A unique process for actively promoting exchange of ideas, techniques and practices across industries - including bringing together separate parts of value chains - to accelerate company objectives A project design & opportunity formulation for growth for each participating company and its leaders Acquisition of external knowledge and the building of a network for change to create a shared network between consortium partners via global workshops Generation of new, continuing themes for GLTE base on the shared opportunities, external knowledge and tacit information within each participant.

What are the main characteristics of GLTE consortia? Top team participation to drive adoption of actions Participants all have an individual, real business goal, addressable by collaborative innovation, with a measurable outcome to achieve - not an artificial case study Consortium setting forces participants to frame their challenges in clear language such that they can be explained to others and be challenged by others not in the same industry or even culture Time pressure is a positive constraint as participants are on the spot to perform and report and comment " Client's own knowledge, stimulated by wider perception spread of other participants, set in different environments and challenged by external, stimulating experts, drives innovative solutions and allows formulation of actions Knowledge capture in a C-level report and audiovisual media.

Global Leadership & Technology Exchange (GLTE): Total Energy Management (TEM)

A Revolutionary Approach to Energy Management with Dramatic Benefits for the Environment

The Opportunity Energy management is one of the biggest challenges facing us today: about 65% of all energy generated is wasted. A credible attempt at Total Energy Management (TEM) would work to reduce the cost and environmental impact of human activities by advancing energy efficiency, optimising energy production and effective energy application, promoting the use of distributed and renewable energy and improving utility management decisions. As energy consumers, we have both a tremendous opportunity and a clear responsibility to lead by example with intelligent and total energy management. While individuals, companies and local and national governments have made considerable progress in improving their use of energy, much more can be done to save energy, promote the use of renewable technologies and reduce our dependence on insecure sources of energy. This opportunity is beginning to be addressed commercially: worldwide investments in sustainable energy (wind, solar, water) doubled between 2004 and 2006 to $70.9 billion and venture capital and private equity investments increased by 69% in 2006 to $8.6 billion.

Total Energy Management (TEM): New Area of Focus In June 2007, at The Performance Theatre in St. Petersburg, panel speakers and guests (including such global leaders as: Alexander Medvedev of Gazprom, Jeremy Bentham of Shell, Sir Thomas Harris of Standard Chartered Bank, Mikael Lilius of Fortum, Senator Tom Daschle, Jon Fredrik Baksaas of Telenor, Eivind Reiten of Hydro, Shiv Vikram Khemka of Sun Capital and Gordon Graylish of Intel, amongst many others) and moderated by Todd Benjamin of CNN, Geoff Colvin of Fortune and Vladimir Pozner, explored energy interdependence in terms of: Understanding the current and future challenges by exploring how we move from energy independence to energy interdependence Investigating and assessing possible solutions to the challenges presented by technology and innovation The role of global business leaders in delivering such new business models

Following the discussions of these global leaders and in addition to the current and very successful "Frontiers of Innovation" GLTE thread, a further area of focus was launched, in which it was announced that:   "Executives from a range of companies will begin to explore a potentially far-reaching accord to share best practice on energy and environmental management. By the end of 2007, the companies will have assessed alternative approaches to realise the potential of Total Energy Management (TEM).   A meeting, planned for early 2008, will be hosted under the umbrella of the Global Leadership and Technology Exchange (GLTE), whose current partnership is exploring collaborative innovation, and Gazprom, the Russian natural resources and energy distribution group.   Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom, said: "Total Eenergy Management is very important globally because of the need for increased energy efficiency, improved ecological impact and interdependence between producers, consumers and governments."   The proposed planning meeting signals an extension of the GLTE's work on energy and sustainability, which has already stimulated collaboration among international companies including Shell, Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Det Norske Veritas and Pacific Gas and Electric Company."

TEM will use the techniques of inspired leadership and collaborative innovation to drive technology breakthroughs. It will explore new ways of providing, transporting and using the energy vital to sustain economic growth. It will acknowledge the need for regional and global energy security as well as effective management of energy resources and will suggest new and globally-relevant business models to deliver the energy needed by business and society today. The positioning of GLTE-TEM is firmly one of reducing carbon footprint and optimising collaborative innovation via inspired leadership. It is designed to address two major questions: What is the true potential of a 'Total Energy Management (TEM) world?' What are the efficiency and leadership models required to tap this potential? The crucial focus is how the GLTE Partners can tackle the future in such areas as: more effective energy solutions, recognised as an active factor to achieving a more benign environment, implementing new rules of innovation to enhance customer value and what leadership attributes will be required to drive collaborative innovation.