White Papers Local Power Generationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 The recent spate of power outages across North America and Europe, and a number of environmental initiatives that are being pushed by European and UK governments, have led … Read Article Open Letter to California''s Governorby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger: As academics and former government officials with a broad understanding of energy and regulatory issues, we followed with interest your discussion of these concerns during … Read Article Economic Development Partneringby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Regulated utilities compete every day. They try to persuade other corporations to locate operations within the utility’s service area. Today, all corporations evaluate their global choices, appraising such … Read Article Sarbanes-Oxley – A Call to Actionby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 If you work for a publicly traded US company, chances are you’re pretty familiar with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). As a result of SOX, CEOs and CFOs have … Read Article On-Demand Practices for Utilitiesby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Not all outages can be prevented, nor is it economically feasible to do so. But customers are demanding new levels of service and expect utilities to respond and … Read Article Driving the Enterpriseby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Enterprise performance management (EPM) is a slippery term that is difficult to define. It has a few aliases, such as corporate performance management (CPM) and business performance management … Read Article Managing Customers for Valueby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Customer relationships are the most important asset of an energy retailer and represent the value of an energy retail business. Yet how many retailers out there can truly … Read Article Energy Asset Optimizationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Since the latter half of 2002, the industry has been in a back-to-basics mode of operation. The focus, once on unregulated businesses and acquisitions, has returned to obtaining … Read Article The CIS Market in Transformationby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on March 11, 2004 Customer information systems (CIS) is a hub for customer-facing and revenue cycle processing activity with functional footprint covering operational and a segment of collaborative customer relationship management. CIS … Read Article Partial Deregulation and Creditby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 Deregulation or, as it should be more properly called, restructuring of U.S. power markets was supposed to induce greater efficiencies and reduce prices to consumers. Restructuring should also … Read Article Building an Enterprise GISby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 Early on, utilities, with no specific cartographic expertise and lacking any standards around scale, orientation, map sheet size, symbology, or detail, created a huge investment in paper maps … Read Article Portfolio Value Managementby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 To position their companies for success in the energy industry of the future, utility executives must have a clear vision of the future of the industry and the … Read Article Portfolio Approach to Cutting Costsby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 The renewed and particularly intense focus on performance improvement and cost reduction in utilities is traceable to three compelling drivers of change: • Strong capital market demands • … Read Article Trends in Bill Paymentby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 One of the most significant trends within the payments market is the increasing substitution of electronic forms of payment for traditional paper-based payment forms such as cash and … Read Article The Big Shift Changeby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 Let us look at one situation with two very different endings. Reliable operations, employee safety, and corporate profitability are all at stake. This is not a dinner theater … Read Article Understanding Risk Managementby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 Greater recognition of the correlation among the risks in energy marketing activities, asset management and operations, and the energy regulatory environment is necessary for companies to better manage … Read Article Carbon Dioxide Strategiesby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 The Kyoto Protocol would have required the United States to commit to a 7 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 level by 2010. This paper will … Read Article Chapter 11: Life After Deathby Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book on April 1, 2003 It is a fundamental tenet of economics that life in a competitive marketplace comes with both risks and rewards. Partial deregulation of the utility industries has proven no … Read Article« Previous 1 2 3 4 … 10 11 12 13 14 … 16 17 18 19 Next »