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Meeting the Sustainability Challenge: A Suggested Utility Strategy

Sustainability must be integrated with traditional planning functions to maximize social, environmental and economic returns. Bold, persistent action is required in this arena to meet growing stakeholder expectations.

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Utility Maintenance Optimization: A Suggested Approach

Historically, maintenance initiatives oscillate between two opposing objectives: Achieving Reliability Goals or Cutting Costs. Economic conditions, regulatory mandates, reliability or safety events trigger a shift toward one objective or the other. Finding the right balance requires an understanding of asset condition, along with the risk and consequence of failure for each asset grouping. Finding this balance must be the focus of an effective maintenance optimization model.

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AMI Overview (Rich Consulting Experience)

Our experience encompasses every aspect of the AMI life cycle: Strategic Business Case, Technology Evaluation & Pilot, Planning, Deployment, and Ongoing Monitoring & Business Case Validation.

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A Recommended Approach to Due Diligence

Asset purchases have eclipsed outright company mergers and acquisitions as a strategic level for energy companies seeking to expand their capabilities and drive shareholder value.
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The Mobile Utility Work Force of the Future

This White Paper takes a look at the current state of mobile systems deployments and the possible future of the utility industry’s mobile workforce.
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Replacing a Legacy System

There are a number of methods for evaluating systems for retirement, identifying a replacement system, and look at some implementation strategies. The challenge is to determine the best strategy for your organization.
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Building a Business Case for a Work and Asset Management System
Keys to an effective business case analysis, including making capital allocation decisions and managing project performance.
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI): Have We Reached the Tipping Point?
We believe the tipping point has been reached and momentum continues to build.
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GIS: Optimizing the Return on Investment
In this article we have applied our post-implementation review methodology to addressing some of the issues that commonly impact the results delivered by GIS and automated design systems.
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A Suggested Approach to Conducting a Project Implementation Review
Failures are generally associated with poor execution of the implementation plan, or inadequate coordination with the user community.
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The Art and Science of Technology Planning
The most successful technology initiatives are those that use a combination of Art and Science.
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An Application-Centric Approach to IT Portfolio Optimization
A formal process for continually optimizing the IT portfolio is central to successful IT management.
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