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After a Dramatic Failure, How a Major U.S. Utility Company Succeeded in Migrating to Oracle Primavera
An American power and natural gas holding company headquartered in the Carolinas has been aggressively growing for the past twenty years, acquiring and merging with market leaders to deliver coal, hydroelectric, oil and gas, solar, wind, and nuclear power-generation...
How Your Energy Company Can Survive the Looming Skills Deficit
If you work in the energy sector, you see it coming: Too few new employees have the skills and experience to replace critical staff retiring or advancing out of their operating roles. “The energy industry is at a crossroads, facing a skills shortage that could...
Successful Project Control Requires Integrating All Data Sources to Uncover Decisive Metrics
By Lee S. Gliddon III, Executive Vice President at Knowledge Relay Insufficient Project Controls destroy budgets and create schedule delays. We all know that Project Controls without decisive metrics can lead to poor decision-making, missed deadlines, and budget...
Clean Energy Revolution: Small Modular Reactors Powering the Future of Nuclear Utilities
The need for sustainable energy sources has never been more pressing as our global population continues to grow, and traditional sources struggle to keep up with the escalating demand. Nuclear power, due to its efficiency and low carbon emissions, presents an...
The Significance of Data in Ensuring Safe and Efficient Nuclear Power
As technology continues to advance at a staggering pace, the global demand for energy has skyrocketed, prompting nations to explore diverse forms of energy production. Nuclear power, known for its efficiency and low carbon emissions, has emerged as a significant...
A Different Approach to IT Consulting Services
Most large IT services providers sell Full Time Employees (FTEs). It’s great to have a team of ready-made, inexpensive(?), quasi-skilled workers at your disposal. But should you use the same provider to oversee and manage the teams? Often, the primary goal of large IT...
Who Do You Call at 3am?
Who are you going to call at 3:00 a.m. during an outage …and who are you hoping will answer the phone? By: Steven Mauss If you’re over 20 years old, you probably remember the campaign commercial about the red phone ringing in the oval office. It just keeps ringing...
The Datafication of Everything
By: Steven Mauss Spending a lot of time and resources converting everything to its digital form may make you feel like you are up on technology and doing something, but it can diminish the value of the stories it can tell you. I’ve often wondered why we spend so much...
Project Health Metrics from Nuclear Power Improved Project Controls
By Lee Gliddon In the 2000’s the Commercial Nuclear Power industry embraced Project Health metrics on their highly complex plant outages and operations. In a normal plant outage project, which includes: maintenance, refueling, and upgrading the plant. There are...
You Have to Know When to Say When
Sometimes you just have to know when to say when. At a certain point, you have to call the game. By: Steven Mauss Way back in 1976, an artist wrote a song that spoke to what all of us know, deep in our minds and hearts. It was then that Don Schlitz first penned “The...
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