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UtiliPoint’s 2012 Workshop @ CS Week Summary: Innovation From Outside Our Industry, New Billing Methods, Green Button, Smart Phone Apps, Customer Engagement, Organizational Transformation and More
14 May 2012
Innovation was the theme of the 2012 SmartGridPoint Workshop as part of UtiliPoint’s eighth annual participation in CS Week’s Synergy Groups. We heard from speakers from a diverse group of energy companies and utilities, presenting and discussing a wide range of topics all revolving around the theme of innovation. Southwest Airlines’ Jordan Johnson provided an [...]
More »Stakeholders and Energy Related Decision Making
11 April 2012
In 1943, Abraham Maslow proposed in A Theory of Human Motivation that all human needs were not the same. To each individual there is a hierarchy of needs in which lower level needs must be satisfied before higher level needs become a priority. Maslow’s theory is often expressed in the form of a pyramid: Maslow’s [...]
More »Innovation: Social Media
23 March 2012
How ubiquitous is social media in today’s world? The hype has gone so far that according to socialnomics.net, babies have been named “Facebook” in Egypt. How about the utility industry? Aren’t we a stodgy and unexciting industry? Google the words “social media” and “utilities,” and you get 91,500,000 hits! Sure, some results are software utility [...]
More »The Power of the Tweet
15 March 2012
In this IssueAlert article, I want to suspend all of the readers’ thoughts about right and wrong, good and bad, ethical and unethical, and of course, legal and illegal. This article is about power, how it has shifted, and how important the concept of stakeholders has become. Many of us can remember the term “stakeholders” [...]
More »Mapping the Evolution of CTRM Leaders
08 March 2012
The acquisitions of Navita and Syseca by Brady PLC last month are the latest transactions in a continueing consolidation of vendors in the CTRM software industry, a process which began with SunGard in the late 90′s and continues energetically to this day. In fact, looking at the activities of the current top five vendors, we [...]
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