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Strategic report
OCU Group | Annual report and financial statements 2025
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Accelerating change, shaping futures Our strategy
Innovation Innovation continues to shape the way we solve problems, drive efficiency, and ensure future resilience. Our approach to innovation is practical, technology-driven, and focused on unlocking real value for our clients and operational teams. By combining digital platforms, data insight, and operational technology, we are driving new standards in infrastructure delivery and shaping the future of the industries we serve. Through operational technology, AI and data platforms, we are embedding innovation across every level of our business. Progress in 2025 In 2025, we saw widespread adoption of new ways of working within day-to-day operations. The OCU One platform is now fully embedded on multiple contracts, serving as the operational backbone for SHEQ records and frontline task management. It integrates seamlessly with OCU Data, which now powers a range of dashboards that support daily and weekly decision-making across our Group. Artificial Intelligence has delivered significant efficiency improvements. Our AI-powered job pack ingestion tool has reduced manual processing time by up to 84% on live contracts, while a natural language query interface for the OCU Data platform allows users to explore business insights intuitively. These innovations are helping us to act faster and with greater accuracy. We also delivered major equipment innovations. The UK’s largest pipe pusher enabled OCU to surpass performance KPIs on key water mains replacement schemes, while our hybrid Augmented and Virtual Reality training village became a new feature of our Academy network, delivering a new standard in immersive technical training. Continued focus • Advancing in-field technology to boost operational performance and safety. • Expanding data analytics platforms to unify insight across systems. • Creating collaboration tools that integrate client and framework, project and program workflows.
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• Strengthening cyber and information security for all digital platforms. • Scaling operational technology solutions for high-impact performance.
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