Tag: Enterprise

Sound Advice For the Energy Industry

Regulatory uncertainty, unprecedented demand, outdated infrastructure, emerging technologies, and fierce competition both for and among natural resources. Today’s energy world is transformed ... Read Article

Court Ruling Backs Regulators

In November 2003, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in the Pacific Gas and Electric bankruptcy case that ... Read Article

Utility Service Delivery Management

The conversations between senior officers and managers at utilities are similar worldwide. They need to reduce operations and maintenance expenses, increase the ... Read Article

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

A Deluge of Regulation

The casualties continue to mount in the devastated landscape of the post-Enron world. We know now that Enron was the beginning of ... Read Article

Markets Need Customers

The average electricity customer has fled from electricity restructuring, returned to the utility from competitive suppliers, and voted for politicians who kill ... Read Article

Asset Health and Wealth

Recent events in the energy marketplace and the failure of unregulated businesses have put greater emphasis on regulated businesses. Given this backdrop, ... Read Article

America''s Next Nightmare: SMD

Reliable, low-cost electric energy makes the American economy go. It is the essential service, so necessary to modern life that its momentary ... Read Article

Real-Time IT in Electric Markets

Energy companies transact close to a million dollars a day for physical delivery in markets run by independent systems operators. The settlement ... Read Article

California: Policy and Reform

In the post-Cold War era, we supposedly all understand the benefits of privatization and the deregulation of markets. They bring efficiency, innovation, ... 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

Electricity Reform That Works

The near meltdown of the California electricity markets prompted many, both inside and outside government, to question whether deregulation can work and, ... 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
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