Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

CFOs Face Major IT Challenges

November 1, 2005 – In September, Ventana Research conducted a workshop for senior finance executives as part of CFO Magazine’s Strategy Execution ... Read Article

The Impact of IT on the Health Care Workforce

The role of information technology is not to replace clinicians, but to change their work environment to provide better job satisfaction and ... Read Article

Health Care Technology: A History of Clinical Care Innovation

The future of health care innovation is best understood if we take a moment to look at how we got where we ... Read Article

Automating Maintenance Part of Seabrook''s Pursuit of Excellence: An MRO Software Case Study

To say that the Seabrook nuclear power station has had a tumultuous history is an understatement. The Boston Globe called it the ... Read Article

MAXIMO Fuels Columbia Gas Transmission''s Maintenance Activities: An MRO Software Case Study

Columbia Gas Transmission, an operating company of NiSource, Inc., offers a variety of competitively priced natural gas transportation and storage services built ... Read Article

Meeting Information Demands

Over the past year, the energy industry has experienced a tremendous increase in the type and amount of information demanded by regulators ... Read Article

Network Asset Maintenance

In many jurisdictions, any negative customer impact is felt by the utility as a penalty payment, so network performance (system outages, voltage ... Read Article

On Performance Management

As the energy industry evolves, leveraging business intelligence becomes ever more important. The well-publicized problems of major energy traders over the last ... Read Article

Yallourn Energy Powers Maintenance Efforts with MRO Software''s Strategic Asset Management Solution: An MRO Software Case Study

Based in the Latrobe Valley in the Australian state of Victoria, 150 kilometers east of Melbourne, Yallourn Energy operates Australia’s second largest ... Read Article

Building an Enterprise GIS

Early on, utilities, with no specific cartographic expertise and lacking any standards around scale, orientation, map sheet size, symbology, or detail, created ... Read Article

Portfolio Approach to Cutting Costs

The renewed and particularly intense focus on performance improvement and cost reduction in utilities is traceable to three compelling drivers of change: ... Read Article

The Big Shift Change

Let us look at one situation with two very different endings. Reliable operations, employee safety, and corporate profitability are all at stake. ... Read Article

Carbon Dioxide Strategies

The Kyoto Protocol would have required the United States to commit to a 7 percent reduction in carbon emissions from the 1990 ... Read Article

Wind Energy: Winds of Change

A look at the U.S. wind energy industry’s growth chart shows an upward curve that takes off at the close of the ... Read Article

Disruptive Technologies

With the collapse of energy trading and the slowing of retail deregulation, energy and utility companies are going back to the basics. ... Read Article
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