by Jeffrey Cummings | Jan 5, 2022 | White Papers
Integrated Risk Management – Application to Pipeline Safety This paper is co‐authored by Doug Dale and Jeff Cummings of UMS Group, an international utility management consulting firm founded in 1989 to serve the global utilities industry. More detail regarding their...
by UMS Group | Dec 15, 2021 | White Papers
Making the Matrix Organization Work HISTORY AND THEORY Matrix organizations gained popularity in the late 70s and early 80s as many companies began to expand globally. A need to maintain both local market responsiveness and global product/service consistency found...
by Jeffrey Cummings | Dec 14, 2021 | White Papers
Grid Modernization: A Roadmap to Tomorrow’s Infrastructure (Or “Don’t Get Lost on the way to AMI”) “SmartGrid” and Advanced Metering technologies are being touted at the highest levels of American politics today. There is an air of inevitability pervading the utility...
by Larisa Malewski | Dec 13, 2021 | White Papers
Recommended Solutions for Three Problems Commonly Experienced During Portfolio Optimization Too Much Mandatory, Reliability Goals Not Achieved, and High-Risk Investments Not Funded Do you have too many mandatory projects, such that the remaining discretionary budget...
by J. Shipper | Nov 24, 2021 | White Papers
About Implementing the Risk Management Process Within an Asset Management Organization This white paper discusses the experience of implementing a risk management process within an Asset Management organization. It discusses three important subjects that need to be...
by J. Shipper | Nov 10, 2021 | White Papers
Utility Decision-Making for “Smart” Investments This paper is a follow up to the 3rd Annual Smart Grids Summit held in Stockholm in January 2012. The Summit brought together Europe’s leading electricity grid distribution specialists, investors and regulators to share...
