Tag: Enterprise

Trading Floors, Alternative Approaches To Risk Management And The New Wave Of Convergence?

Why Do Energy Companies Trade? Trading operations appear to be a highly esteemed part of many energy companies. During the last two ... Read Article

Talk to Me: Outsourcing to Make Big Gains with Small Businesses

Talk is cheap, but meaningful dialogue is valuable. For utilities, speaking to each segment of the market in its own language can ... Read Article

Setting a Target for Cost Reduction Programs

Many believe cost performance is back, but we don’t think it’s ever been gone. One outcome of the California energy crisis has ... Read Article

Managing Generator Maintenance in Competitive Electricity Markets

Ineffective Maintenance Can Have a Significant Impact When things go well, maintenance is an activity that is often invisible to senior management. ... Read Article

The IBPP Revolution Meets – and Exceeds – Expectations

Introduction In an industry promising revolutionary advances nearly every day, one application has gone well beyond vision-speak: Internet bill presentment and payment(IBPP). ... Read Article

The Changing Role of the Utility CFO

Industry Transformation: The New Competitive Landscape The global energy industry is experiencing extraordinary transformation. The forces of deregulation, increased competition, simultaneous unbundling ... Read Article

Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Deregulation

Introduction Companies do not emerge into a competitive environment with immediate knowledge of how to compete safely and effectively. Companies faced with ... 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

Evolution of the Energy Value Chain

The energy industry continues its metamorphosis, driven in various parts by business imperatives to enhance shareholder value, meet industry-restructuring mandates, and realize ... Read Article

The Role of Web-Based Dynamic Trading in the Restructured Electric and Gas Markets

Electricity and Gas Markets Have Become More Complex Energy industry deregulation is a relatively old story, though one that continues to unfold ... 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

Where to Now?

Major states were continuing to open retail electric and gas markets to full competition-in response, great plans were being laid, and extensive ... Read Article

A Thousand Points of (Power and) Light: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Generation

Much has been written about the opportunities distributed-generation (DG) technologies offer the energy marketplace. DG will one day reduce local congestion, reduce ... 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

Success in Deregulated Markets: The Multi-Utilities Business Model

A paradigm shift in the utilities industry has been underway for some time now. For decades the industry was characterized by regional ... Read Article
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