Position Paper: Smart Change

The European Green Deal involves a fundamental future change and calls for new ways of working. It requires transformation on infrastructure and thus the creation of a new smart EU needs to draw on new communication technologies, new sources of energy, new modes and structures of mobility.

The use of AI, digitalisation, high speed internet and low carbon energies are corner stones of the smart change processes needed to be put to use.

Knowing and recognizing that the implementation of the use of smart change is not a linear process and acknowledging that European managers are key players in the process of achieving the necessary development results within a reasonable timeframe, CEC European Managers in December 2021 decided to create a working group on smart change.

The working group on smart change was constituted by experts from Member organisations and chaired by Marco Vezzani (CEC General Deputy Secretary) with the goal to focus on the managerial role of smart change in the technological dimension (industrial strategy and processes, energy, iron and steel, transport, and mobility) as well as the managerial role on smart change in the organizational and socio-economic dimension.

Through discussions covering several meetings and webinars the experts of the working group recommend that CEC European Managers formalizes and adopts the following policy statement on smart change as a necessary foundation of creating a new smart Europe.

This position paper aims to highlight the role of managers and leaders in the energy and green transition, taking into account the Smart Change approach.

You can download CEC European Managers position paper here [+]