Analysis

February 11, 2020

Want to make your company more innovative? Teach your staff to code

It is more cost-effective to retrain your staff than hire for new skills.


Maija Palmer

6 min read

In 2017 Engie, the French energy utility, was looking for ways to reinvent itself and move towards more sustainable energy sources. The big question for Razvan Dordea, intrapreneur at Engie, was how to get staff to embrace the transition.

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Engie Let's Code
Engie says employees who learned to code spent less time on routine tasks.
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