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Why Change Management Should Be a Priority for Utilities
What exactly is Change Management?
Making the Matrix Organization Work
Matrix organizations gained popularity in the late 70s and early 80s as many companies began to expand globally. A need to maintain both local market responsiveness and global product/service consistency found many managers playing dual roles. Parallel reporting relationships reflected the diverse and often conflicting needs of functional, product and geographic organizational groups.
Grid Modernization: A Roadmap to Tomorrow’s Infrastructure (Or “Don’t Get Lost on the way to AMI”)
“SmartGrid” and Advanced Metering technologies are being touted at the highest levels of American politics today. There is an air of inevitability pervading the utility industry, where 21st century technology promises to transform 20th century infrastructure, making it cheaper, cleaner, safer, smarter and more reliable.
Recommended Solutions for Three Problems Commonly Experienced During Portfolio Optimization
This article serves to examine and recommend solutions to three common problems faced by utility investment planners when analyzing and interpreting project portfolio results using an optimization tool.
About Implementing the Risk Management Process Within an Asset Management Organization
This white paper discusses the experience of implementing a risk management process within an Asset Management organization. It discusses three important subjects that need to be considered while implementing risk management – the different perspectives between day-to-day operations and risk-based asset planning, asset risk versus business risk, and the n-to-n relationship between issues and risks.
Utility Decision-Making for “Smart” Investments
This paper is a follow up to the 3rd Annual Smart Grids Summit held in Stockholm in January 2012. The Summit brought together Europe’s leading electricity grid distribution specialists, investors and regulators to share insights on the Smart Grid.
Why Data Management is Critical for Good Asset Management
Can a utility be good at Asset Management without first being good at Data Management?
Do Your Assets Deliver Real Value?
Rapid technological advancements in the physical assets and systems used to manage them, under the auspice of a well-conceived asset management strategy and plan, make it possible to asymmetrically and effectively deal with these factors.
How To Be An Effective Change Manager
Learn about how we translate change management best practices into a practical approach at the project level.
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