The Intelligent Utility: The 15 Keys to Business Value

This book lists fifteen organizational reconfigurations that must be made in order for IU to pay off. Fail to reconfigure the organization, and your IU project will prove to be an expensive and very visible hobby.

The Intelligent Utility can make money for companies and make careers for utility managers and professionals. This book can help you and your organization with the toughest challenge in this era of the Intelligent Utility: implementation.


The 25 "How To's" for Success of the Intelligent Utility

 

1.       Learn How to Use Business Value Architecture to "Grease the Skids" for Intelligent Utility Success

 

2.       Learn How to Use Strategic Business Architecture to Power the Intelligent Utility

 

3.       Learn How to Use Work Process Architecture to Leverage the Intelligent Utility

 

4.       Learn How to Use Technical Process Architecture to Amplify the Intelligent Utility

 

5.       Learn How to Read and take advantage of  Vendor Architecture

 

6.       Learn How to put Intelligent Interfaces in place to smooth work and reduce conflict

 

7.       Learn How to design the Intelligent Utility Culture

 

8.       Learn How to Implement Business Value Architecture (i.e., Grease the Skids) for the IU

 

9.       Learn How to use Collaboration and Incentives to your best advantage

 

10.   Learn How to Use Portfolio Management for IU Projects

 

11.   Learn How to Use IU Implementation Strategies: Deploy or Adopt

 

12.   Learn How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Workflow Analysis

 

13.   Lean How to Use New Models for IU Innovation

 

14.   Learn How to Manage IU Maturity and Paradigms

 

15.   Learn How to Find Out the Maturity of IU Solution Providers

 

16.   Learn How to Build an Organizational  Culture of Support for IU and IT

 

17.   Learn How to Use the Management Implementation Principles

 

18.   Learn How to Assign the Correct IU Leadership Roles

 

19.   Learn How to Know  "Who Does What?" for Intelligent Utility Value

 

20.   Learn How to Use the NEW NEW Ideas for Intelligent Utility success

 

21.   Learn How to Use "The Leader's Last Stand" to pull performance into line

 

22.   Learn How to Find  The Sweet Spot for IU Professionals

 

23.   Learn How to Use and Benefit from the Big Ideas for IU Implementation

 

24.   Learn How to Use Integrated Risk Management for IU Success 

 

25.   Learn How to Test an IU Initiative for Fatal Flaws


Yes, digital technology does hold great promise for improving business performance in today's utility operations. No, digital technology is NOT EASY to get ready for use in a utility organization ... and it is not easy to prepare the utility to be ready to use the new technology when it goes live.


"You don't have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutch's work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change," says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.