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D Diggitalll Crrewsss

How did the Digital Crews begin?
They were launched in April 2018 to meet a simple
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objective: to reuse what the Group does best in
Head of communities and digital
terms of digital technology. Beginning with the communication, ENGIE Digital
conviction that digital means IT and hand-in-hand
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business, we decided to create mixed crews of
technical experts and business people. These four
crews relate to existing areas of expertise at ENGIE
Digital: chatbots, APIs*, design and Inner source**.
How are they run?
They are fl exible communities. If one doesn’t take off,
it just disappears. On the other hand, other subjects
might see the light through our trend watch and
feedback from teams that are in daily contact with
BUs. A new crew can be created as long as there is the = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
necessary expertise and BUs express a real need.

Who can join?
There are nearly 800 employees involved in the four
crews and we set no boundaries. There is no need to
sign up. Everybody comes along to learn by taking As well as fostering dialogue and
part in events, watching videos, meeting experts. The
driving force behind these communities is a group of boosting the ability of teams to get
less than ten people whose role is to manage them and
create value. That is all you need to do to run a group. started on projects quickly, the community
At the heart of the crews, ENGIE’s digital platform, is a source of pride for its members
Digiplace, provides all the necessary ingredients for
successful and effi cient reuse including business use who realise the importance of getting a place
cases, design kits, source code and technical documents.
on the digital spectrum of large companies.
A concrete example of an achievement? It is a huge advantage. Our aim is also
Evangelism is not enough. The community helps concrete
projects get off the ground. In the high business value to open doors and foster cooperation with
fi eld of APIs*, two crew events organised in cooperation
with employees at ENGIE Italia resulted in a project partners such as Thalès Factory,
that produced digital solutions for the Group’s BUs. Renault digital and Société Générale.
We all share the same approach and
The community is particularly active in France, Italy,
the United Kingdom, North America, Asia and Australia.
can learn a lot from each other.”
* Application Programming Interfaces
** Open source culture applied to organisations