This photo for me is a metaphor of "innovation" and "digital transformation" in the current era. An iPhone and a Selfie Stick to photograph electricity meters. It's cheap to implement,involves the latest technology,is deployable locally, with ZERO need for cross discipline buy in. It's quick to do, looks advanced & it does improve things. It creates lots of secure data,involved near zero risk. We live in a world of innovation & transformation as patches on broken systems. We merely add on modern user interfaces onto broken processes & foundations of the past. We can look at this and ask,is this quicker than a person on a ladder? Is this safer? & we can congratulate ourselves for what we made happen Or we can rethink what electricity meters could be. What if they were connected, and smart, designed to be much smaller? What would happen if consumers could see this on a real time dashboard? And you'd reward people for using less You could make dynamic tarifs, use real time usage data to improve planning, create new loyalty mechanisms, sell this technology to other companies, then decide to pivot to being a SAAS company that owns no assets and gets bought for a P/E ratio of 200/1 Which one do you want to do? …see more