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Critical Call The Emerging Criticality of Cellular Services

The advancements in cellular services that have been witnessed in recent years have had a dramatic effect on the decision-making processes of ... Read Article

Harnessing the Power of the Intelligent Grid to Innovate / Enhance Efficiency and Reliability of Utility

The Challenge The electric power infrastructure is a foundation of American prosperity and one of the key elements of the digital economy ... Read Article

Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills

This is an excerpt. To read this paper in it’s entirety: Understanding and Driving Consumer Adoption of E-Bills Introduction Online bill payment ... Read Article

Audit Committees Step Up Risk Oversight

When the audit committee of a publicly traded company sits down to meet, what’s on the agenda? What issues are considered most ... Read Article

Best Practices in Distribution Asset and Work Management

Utilities face escalating operational expenses due to rising fuel costs and increasing investment costs for environmental regulation while simultaneously being limited in ... Read Article

The Liability of Cost Cutting: A CEOs New Challenge

When financial results don’t meet expectations, senior executives face five dreaded words that have become much too common: “We need to cut ... Read Article

Leveraging Operational Systems Assets to Realize Their Full Value

The electric utility industry finds itself confronted by a dynamic regulatory and market environment that is necessitating changes at all levels of ... Read Article

Information Is Power: The Intelligent Utility Network

In the United States, utility industry forces are driving substantial changes in strategy for T&D businesses. The U.S. Energy Policy Act of ... Read Article

Innovation Does Matter

Innovation may be one of the most overused terms among strategists, used interchangeably with technology improvements, process changes and many other tactical ... Read Article

Business Process Management in Energy

Forced to deliver expected shareholder returns in stagnant markets, energy utilities are turning their attention to performance improvement. The drive for operational ... Read Article

Setting Fixed Electric Rates and Bills

Today many utilities strive to increase customer satisfaction by offering new products and services to meet customer demands. One of the most ... Read Article

Using Service-Oriented Architecture to Transform Utilities

Since the 1970s, utility companies have grown principally through mergers and acquisitions. This industry consolidation has resulted in organizations with diverse business ... Read Article

Survival Skills for Utility Mergers

The recent surge in merger, acquisition and divestiture activity in the U.S. utilities industry has come as no surprise to leaders in ... Read Article

Examining Business Process Outsourcing

What does next-level utility performance look like? The energy industry may be one of the most complex business environments, as it is ... Read Article

Shifting Regulatory Oversight of Utility Mergers

Many in the energy industry are anticipating a wave of mergers that will fundamentally alter and concentrate the energy industry, both from ... Read Article

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