Category: Enterprise Thought Leadership Archive

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

Back in the good old days before restructuring, I used a simple formula to pick electric utility stocks for the elderly, blue-haired ... Read Article

Electric system reliability is a political necessity. The reverberations from California’s rolling black-outs have stalled the trend towards generation market deregulation, which ... Read Article

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

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

By integrating advanced tools and functionality, logistics exchanges can gain critical competitive differentiation. PDF download Context The emergence of the B2B exchange ... Read Article

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The thrust of the anti-ISO argument rests on two flawed and interrelated propositions: (1) that, incentivized by the profit motive and market-based ... Read Article

Figure 1 Typical infrastructure required for developing and deploying Business Intelligence applications See larger image Business intelligence makes the enterprise “smart.” Although ... Read Article

Introduction The restructuring of the utilities industry is now a global phenomenon. Many utility companies are recasting business strategies to meet the ... Read Article

The difference between these positions has had a critical impact on the process of industry restructuring. In the first instance, it is ... Read Article

Regardless of how the utility positions itself, restructuring is forcing the utility to focus on: Reducing operating/maintenance costs Obtaining a return-on-investment for ... Read Article

The result of all of this? Energy companies must develop coherent strategies for sustainable growth. To help guide that process, this white ... Read Article

Based on my experience at National Grid, I maintain that to be most successful, transmission must be independent – in terms of ... Read Article

The Business Internet is the realization of the vision of a Digital Nervous System in which information flows quickly through an organization ... Read Article