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Electric Utility Inventory Analysis and Optimization

July 9, 2013

Helping Electric Utilities Get the Right Level of Inventory

How Much Inventory Do We Need to Support the Company’s Assets?


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Finance in the Cloud: Not Just a Numbers Game

July 9, 2013

Business Information – June 2013, Volume 1, Number 3

Brad DeMent, partner and finance and accounting practice co-leader at ScottMadden, Inc., recently corresponded with Mary Driscoll, a senior research fellow at American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), about cloud-based finance. The article, found on pages 23-24, is available here for download.

HR Shared Services Benchmarking – Results, Trends, and Key Metrics

June 28, 2013

APQC Webinar Series

ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.


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Coal’s Slow Burn

June 18, 2013

June 2013 issue of the Electric Light & Power Magazine

ScottMadden, Inc. was recently featured in the June 2013 issue of Electric Light & Power magazine. This issue highlighted ScottMadden’s recent report, “Coal’s Slow Burn”. To view the June 2013 edition of Electric Light & Power magazine, please click here.


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Making Supply Chain Make Sense to Customers

May 22, 2013

Supply chain covers many activities that touch every part of an organization. Today, 86 percent of companies with more than 10,000 employees report having a central supply chain organization with responsibility for key elements of procure-to-pay processes. Consolidating supply chain functions yields many benefits, but the challenge is gaining the benefits without the supply chain organization losing
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Relationship between Centers of Expertise and the HR Service Center

April 30, 2013

Have you ever wondered how the HR service center (HRSC) interacts with the Centers of Expertise (CoEs) in other companies? Shared services literature and consultants will advise that in a best practice HR service delivery model, the CoEs and the HRSC stay closely in sync with the development, execution, and support of HR programs and processes. But what happens in real life? How do the channels work effectively together?


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Preparing for Climate Change – Energy-Water Nexus

April 22, 2013

Earth Day provides an occasion to draw attention to the interdependence of energy and water resources, also known as the energy-water nexus. Energy and water are inextricably linked.


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Pricing: Past, Present, and Future

April 8, 2013

In 2013, ScottMadden sponsored and presented at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Strategic Issues Roundtable.

As the electric power industry faces declining demand and more stringent regulations, addresses the need for increased capital investments, and considers technology enhancements to enable broader customer choices, what can/should we think about for the future? During this event, ScottMadden, discussed how to navigate the spaces between investors, customers, and regulators and brainstorms some future options. Access the full presentation for more.

Combined Cycles

April 2, 2013

Middle-Age Myths

Combined cycle plants may have fewer moving parts than coal plants, but that does not mean that their operations are any easier to analyze. Relatively limited operating experience and sparse data allow beliefs to take root—some well-founded and others less so. This report takes a quick look at three such beliefs and offers some tantalizing, although preliminary, observations on these questions:


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Applying Lean to HR Service Delivery

April 1, 2013

The principles of Lean (or Lean Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, etc.) are focused on building a culture in which everyone is constantly focused on the elimination of waste in their environment. In other words, delivering products or services through streamlined processes that minimize non-value added activities and effectively leverage people’s abilities. These principles previously found their home among the people, processes, and equipment of the factory floor. However, lately these same principles are part of conversations among those in office and service environments—even HR.


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The Fundamentals of Designing, Building, & Implementing a Service Delivery Center

April 1, 2013

APQC Webinar Series

ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.


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Next Generation Shared Services Centers

April 1, 2013

ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.


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