The bar was high. But it ended the year of 2016 with an extra gift in the stocking, surpassing expectations. It ensured the certification with “a clean slate”. SGIDI's strengths were identified, ranging from references to extensive engagement and dynamism of the top management, to excellence in the management of projects, both internal and European projects, to the team spirit, cohesion and coherence that guide EDP Distribuição.
List of identified strengths:
• Engagement and Dynamism of Top Management;
• Team spirit;
• Internal Audits undertaken in 2016;
• Management of RDI Projects;
• Cohesion and Coherence;
• Extension of the Training "Entrepreneurship for Innovation" to Technical Staff;
• RDI structure;
• Transversal Participation in the External Audit;
• Well-developed SGIDI with simple and effective management tools.
Research, Development and Innovation projects of reference in 2016:
• Energy Storage;
• EDP Distribuição Digital;
• Monitoring of Earth Circuits in Transformation Stations;
• Incident Forecasting in the National Distribution Grid;
• Sensible;
• Sharing Cities. Innovation is constant, in the small things that we do in our day-to-day work.
With a strong focus on work teams, EDP Distribuição continues to prove that Innovation is a constant and renewed commitment to the Organization, which touches on the different areas and moves all employees and stakeholders in a strongly ingrained culture of Research, Development and Innovation. And so, ready for more challenges, a new year begins with new opportunities for improvement.
