Business Development

The Business Development functional division has existed in its present form since Atel and EOS joined forces to create Alpiq in February 2009. The main objective for Business Development in 2009 was to build up the functional division and define the tasks to be assigned to the new Market Intelligence, Strategy Development, and Mergers & Acquisitions functional units and to the Project Management & Business Consulting staff function. Processes and interfaces to other units within the Group were defined as part of the "Insieme" internal integration project.

The most important projects involved the formulation of a business model for Group-wide activities in the areas of renewable energies, analysis and prioritisation of the Alpiq investment portfolio, and preparations for the strategy project to be launched in 2010. The aim of Business Development is to perform steering functions within the Group with a view to the Group's long-term, sustainable development.

The two key projects for 2010 and subsequent years involve revising and consolidating the Alpiq Group's strategy with the related implementation plan and reducing corporate complexity by simplifying the organisational and process structure.