Author: Chris Trayhorn, Publisher of mThink Blue Book

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

Public Power: Bucking the Trend

As a result of the early failures of deregulation in the United States, we have learned two critically important lessons about the ... Read Article

Val-Pak Selects Engage for Advertising Production

Val-Pak pioneered local cooperative direct mail in 1968, and has been the industry leader for more than 30 years. Since 1998, as ... Read Article

Unraveling the CRM Investment Knot

Specifically among high-tech companies, successful management of customer relationships has a proven correlation to sustained profitability. PDF download A startling forecast has ... Read Article

From Call Center to Contact Center: How to Successfully Blend Phone, Email, Web and Chat to Deliver Great Service and Slash Costs

To be effective, a cross-channel contact center must possess two vital capabilities: Common incident tracking, reporting and histories across all channels; and ... Read Article

Choice!

There are many disturbing practices and beliefs prevalent in the traditional electric and gas energy industry, but few more disturbing than the ... Read Article

The Connected Home: The Open Services Gateway is Fulfilling the Promise of the Internet Lifestyle

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to automate some of your household chores, and leave home knowing that everything is safe and secure? With ... Read Article

The Entry of New Retailers and Their Search for Customers

Background The unbundling of the traditional energy company in the face of industry restructuring has exposed to competition areas traditionally overlooked by ... Read Article

Standardizing the Supply Chain After Enterprise Reorganization

Deregulation … mergers … spin-offs … The changes taking place in the energy industry, including the reality that competition will increase to ... Read Article

Strategic Transformation in the Energy Industry – A Blueprint for Competing in a Restructured and Networked Environment

Forces of Change in the Energy Industry The networked information economy and competition represent two of the greatest drivers of change in ... Read Article

Utilities and the Fourth Stage of E-Business

Cost savings through automation of business interactions has never been more appealing. Re-thinking our approach to inter-business transactions and re-applying existing and ... Read Article

Integrating IT: The Real Lessons Are Learned After The Merger

Introduction The past few years have brought about many sweeping and costly changes to the energy industry. Post-merger power companies in particular ... Read Article

E-Business Platforms in the Electricity Supply Industry

All over the world, the electricity supply industry is going through a period of unprecedented and momentous change. After a century of ... Read Article
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