NICEIC AT 60 // LOOKING FORWARD
Facing the future Successful organisations need to move with the times if they are to remain relevant. David Adams looks at how the electrical industry might shape up over the coming years and where the opportunities lie
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ow might the day-today working life of the electrical contractor change in the future? In some ways, the job hasn’t changed a great deal in the past 25 years. If you took an electrician from 1990 to the present day, the main differences they would spot are the use of battery-powered tools and, of course, the smartphones now used by most contractors. But these apparently superficial differences show how the job is already changing. NICEIC technical services manager Paul Collins, who began his career in 1990, thinks the rise of the smartphone is one of the most significant changes to have affected the industry during the past 30 years. “Mobile phones have changed the way we do business,” he explains. “I
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