This business case study, featured in the July 2016 Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) newsletter, justifies investments in new pilot project technologies for operating nuclear power plants.
Picture this—your Workday go-live date suddenly seems too close for comfort, as numerous challenges are threatening to derail your implementation. The completeness and accuracy of the data for your go-live tenant can’t be verified, it’s not clear who will maintain integrations, and reports that were supposed to be approved by now have not even been developed. On top of it all, your implementation team is burned out. To varying degrees, this scenario becomes a reality for many HR and finance implementations when it can be avoided.
This article, developed in partnership with workforce management solution Quintiq, helps utilities to better understand how they can think more strategically about the scheduling of their workforce across all planning horizons (long-term, short-term, and day of operations).
This article focuses on a Business Case Methodology (BCM), a guide for utilities drawing up a business case to adopt emerging digital technology. The article, featured in the July 2016 issue of the Nuclear Energy Insider newsletter, reviews the challenges and benefits for enhancing nuclear power plant performance through digitized processes.
ScottMadden’s nuclear generation practice expertise focuses on business and cost management, peer-to-peer benchmarking, organization structure and staffing, plant turnaround and improvement. For more information about the BCM study or applying digital technologies to work processes, please contact us.
In this article, included in the February 2009 issue of American Gas Magazine, Vermont Gas shares its strategies for helping customers use natural gas safely.
In this article, included in the June 2011 issue of American Gas Magazine, Vermont Gas shares its comprehensive effort to expand natural gas service into rural communities. See how the second-most rural state in the nation approached expanding natural gas services.
ScottMadden’s Nuclear practice is launching a Nuclear Plant Recovery series. This six-part series will include articles, case studies, and white papers focused on leading practices in nuclear plant recovery. See below for a sneak peek of what’s to come.
For most companies, the procure-to-pay (P2P) process has evolved to where upstream processes—the world of sourcing and purchasing—and downstream processes—the world of accounts payable—are managed by different organizations and are likely disconnected at key integration points. These disconnects drive rework, inefficiency, frustration, and overall higher costs to serve.
In today’s world, businesses are continually being challenged to create value faster, be innovative, and stay ahead of their peers. To accomplish this, businesses need to be able to leverage their greatest asset, which is not necessarily their products, machinery, or technology. A company’s greatest asset is its human capital—its people—and managing this asset is essentially HR’s main challenge today. As an HR leader, you are probably asking yourself, “How do we enable our businesses to be innovative, create value, or be a visionary if we do not leverage our people effectively to achieve our company’s vision or our goals? And how do we do all of this in a world where talent is scarce?”
The first two articles in this series, “Solutions for Improving Global Service Delivery” and “Transition Planning for a Global Payroll Solution,” provided an understanding of the worldwide payroll solution landscape and how to prepare for your transition to a global payroll model. The third article in the series, “Stakeholder Management for Implementing a Global Payroll Solution,” focused on effective stakeholder management. The final area of focus in our series is implementation management.
The evolving role of the Hawaiian utilities and fast changing solar market are, as officials there like to say, “postcards from the future” for mainland energy markets. The changes underway send a clear message about the solar market and what the mainland should expect in its future.
You’re convinced of the benefits of moving to a cloud-based human capital solution like Workday or Employee Central, but you’re intimidated by the challenge of converting potentially decades of data from legacy systems. You’re not alone. The effort to plan for and execute a conversion of human capital management (HCM) data can be intense as it touches every employee in a corporation and can have major financial, compliance, and public relations ramifications. ScottMadden assisted a leader in the film and television industry to implement a new cloud-based HCM solution. Based on our experience and expertise, we recommend the following five key guidelines to help make your data conversion a success.
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