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for that which have generated awareness around the issues that women face in the workplace . My chapter has set up a mentoring scheme for women . We set it up around nine months ago , and we had a review session just a few months back . The impact that the mentoring scheme has had on the women participating has been astounding . It ’ s not that we ’ re saying every woman should be promoted – it ’ s more that every woman should be the best that they can be , and the changes that we ’ ve seen in these women , and the changes and differences that they ’ re making to our local office , has been amazing . Those kinds of things have been extraordinary to see and they ’ re really making a difference .”
The perennial nature of digital transformation at Centrica sees a number of projects in the pipeline . “ We ’ re speeding up how we deploy updates into our field workforce . There ’ s a project going on with Microsoft at the moment using the DevOps model and Microsoft Store for Business . We ’ re working with our local application teams so that , when fixes to current issues are identified , it ’ s days before
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