From Data to Decisions: An Interview with Olivier Jan, Partner at Deloitte Sustainability France

What is the primary focus of DELOITTE in the AMIGDALA project?  

The AMIGDALA project has 2 major objectives. The first is to develop an integrated cross-sector and multidisciplinary model of the European process industry to identify new pathways and provide new insight on boundary conditions, no-regret solutions and mutual exclusive decisions. The second is to translate complex model results into information which allows industrial and policy decision-makers to take decisions which contribute to the European Green Deal’s objectives. Deloitte’s role focuses on the second.

Deloitte’s major objective is to ensure that model results are transparent, clear and understandable both for policy-makers and industrial decision-makers. This implies that model results are translated to facilitate decision-taking. Deloitte’s focus is therefore to ensure that decision-making processes and preferences, means to interpret model results and to represent them correspond to stakeholder needs for both populations.  

How does Deloitte plan to contribute its expertise in complex systems modeling and decision support analysis to the deployment of the integrated modeling capability in the project? 

Deloitte works across sectors and between the public and private sector. As a result, Deloitte has exceptional insight on how decision are taken both in a wide and general and in a specific sense -at the level of a sector or even a company. Part of a consultant’s role is to analyze problems and data and boil them down into manageable and actionable solutions. Deloitte’s positioning and core skillset are two fundamental contributions. Previous projects to develop comparable models while on different scope (for example CEFIC’s iC2050 model) provide useful experience in understanding the key steps to ensure the success of such projects.

What strategies will Deloitte use to integrate insights from decision-making processes in both government and industry into the modeling scenarios, ensuring that these scenarios effectively guide pathways towards climate? 

Primarily, Deloitte will be responsible for bringing on board stakeholder views and answering their needs. The strategy is to ensure growing interaction with key stakeholder through targeted interventions. In parallel, interviews with decision-makers and policy-makers have and will continue to be undertaken to ensure that their own decision-making process are integrated and the information they need to take decision is captured. Deloitte aims to synthesize these results into manageable indicators translated into visual representations. These will be integrated within the Dashboard. With the help of Green Decisions, user profile will be created. These will order indicators in terms of user preferences to identify what scenario (model run output) corresponds best to the user’s preferences. 

Olivier Jan,

Partner

Deloitte Sustainability France