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ScottMadden Energy Industry Update: Strange Brew – EPA’s Clean Power Plan

November 2, 2015

Strange Brew: Adapting to Changing Fundamentals

ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America’s leading energy consulting firms, recently released its newest edition of The Energy Industry Update. This semi-annual publication offers our inside view of major events and emerging trends in the energy industry and is received by more than 10,000 industry leaders.


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ScottMadden Examines How to Use Benchmarks to Improve HR Shared Services

November 2, 2015

ScottMadden’s partners share insights and lessons learned for benchmarking in recent APQC webinar

ScottMadden, Inc., a general management consulting firm, and American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) recently conducted a complimentary webinar focused on using benchmarks to improve HR shared services performance. In this session, ScottMadden addressed the topic using data from the third cycle of its human resources shared services (HRSS) benchmarking study conducted with APQC. This multi-year study focused exclusively on U.S. or North American HRSS organizations with service centers and centers of expertise.


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ScottMadden to Partner with SEPA for Executive Fact-Finding Mission in Texas

October 27, 2015

Exploring the Energy Markets in Texas

ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America’s leading energy consulting firms, is proud to join the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) in leading a group of approximately 25 U.S. energy industry executives to the deregulated “energy market laboratory” of Texas to examine how innovative programs and integration tools help leading utilities and technology companies grow and thrive in this dynamic energy market. Cristin Lyons, partner and grid transformation practice leader at ScottMadden, and Marc Miller, partner and public power and electric cooperatives practice leader at ScottMadden, will attend this event.


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ScottMadden Examines Global Business Services at North American Shared Services Leaders’ Summit

October 26, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., a general management consulting firm, recently sponsored and presented at sharedserviceslink’s North American Shared Services Leaders’ Summit. This event included various sessions by ScottMadden focused on global business services (GBS).


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EnergyBiz Interviews ScottMadden on Utilities Mapping Their Futures

October 19, 2015

EnergyBiz recently interviewed Randy McAdams, partner at ScottMadden, prior to the 2015 Itron Utility Week Knowledge Conference in Los Angeles. In the article, “Utilities Struggle to Map Their Futures,” Mr. McAdams shares his observations as utilities begin to consider transforming their infrastructures. “The challenges presented to utilities given today’s new paradigms are significant, and we are seeing many if not most of our utility clients examining key aspects of their business models,” said Mr. McAdams.


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ScottMadden Sponsors and Presents at IQPC’s HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit

October 13, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., a general management consulting firm, joined leading industry players as a sponsor and presenter at IQPC’s 18th HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit. This semi-annual event promoted interaction with HR professionals through invaluable case studies, instructional workshops, and interactive panel discussions to share best practices and lessons learned in the HR shared services journey.


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ScottMadden to Sponsor AGA Executive Conference

October 9, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America’s leading energy consulting firms, will join industry leaders as a sponsor of the American Gas Association’s (AGA) Executive Conference to be held October 11–12, 2015, at The Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. This invitation-only event encourages discussion on the major energy policy and strategic issues affecting the industry, including global and domestic natural gas markets and what the future holds for natural gas technology, demand, and utilities.


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ScottMadden Discusses Financial Trends in Rate Cases and Cost Recovery at AGA’s State Affairs Fall Committee Meeting

October 8, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America’s leading energy consulting firms, recently joined leading industry players on a panel at AGA’s State Affairs Fall Committee Meeting. This event focused on sharing strategies on how legislators, regulators, utilities, and the industry can cooperate on utility initiatives. Participants also discussed rate case strategies and issues and examined recent rate cases, allowed ROEs, and emerging trends.


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Inside Supply Management Magazine Interviews ScottMadden on Meeting the Challenges of the Power Grid of the Future

October 7, 2015

“Powering Up Their Game”

Inside Supply Management magazine recently interviewed Andy Flores, partner and supply chain practice area leader at ScottMadden, about meeting the challenges of the power grid of the future. In the article, “Powering Up Their Game,” Mr. Flores discussed the role of supply chain management practitioners, reviewed areas where improvement was likely to provide a positive return for companies—category management, inventory optimization, continuous improvement, and cross-functional team leadership and coordination—and provided an overview of future trends, including implications related to coal unit shutdowns and FERC Order 1000.


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North American Windpower Highlights ScottMadden’s View of Renewable Energy

October 5, 2015

ScottMadden to Discuss Global Business Services at North American Shared Services Leaders’ Summit

October 5, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., a general management consulting firm, is proud to join leading industry players as a sponsor and presenter at sharedserviceslink’s North American Shared Services Leaders’ Summit taking place October 6–8, 2015, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This event will include various streams focused on analytics, global business services (GBS), and global process ownership.


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ScottMadden Joins Industry Leaders to Discuss Responses to Coal Plant Shutdowns and Impacts of Expanding the CAISO EIM

October 1, 2015

ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America’s leading energy consulting firms, recently joined leading industry players as a sponsor and presenter at Infocast’s 7th Annual Transmission Summit West in San Diego, California. The three-day program featured two distinct events: The Transmission Executive Forum West, held September 28, 2015, and The Transmission Summit West 2015, held September 29–30, 2015.


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