Insight

ScottMadden recently joined forces with SNL to participate in an interactive webinar, “Regulatory Update 2013.” This 90-minute session, moderated by Walter Crenshaw, senior program manager of SNL Knowledge Center, provided strategic insights...

Traditionally, HR professionals have used metrics for basic operational reporting and to identify necessary performance improvements. Increasingly HR shared services organizations are leveraging their access to data and metrics to provide analytics serv...

More than ever organizations understand the value effective analytics can have on their businesses. As highlighted in ScottMadden’s paper, “Challenges Facing Business Analytics,” most organizations face two primary obstacles in realizi...

Serving as a type of compass relating to principles and behaviors, vision statements convey the direction an organization is headed. Although most companies have defined a vision at the corporate level, few departments within a company have defined a vi...

Many articles and papers have been written about the benefits and value of analytics. Over the last several years, leaders have realized the impact effective analytics can have on their organizations. As these leaders attest, the benefits are indeed rea...

Cooperatives have shown promise as powerful drivers of economic development for their communities. Despite competing demands on financial resources, economic development is a perennial top priority at best in class companies, with the most successful sh...

Merchant power generators must continually evaluate the competitiveness of the plants in their portfolio. In today’s power markets, with historic low natural gas prices and the slow recovery of power demand from the “Great Recession,” ...

ScottMadden believes that electric/gas convergence poses significant risks, and opportunities, to individual businesses in both the gas and electric industries. Some companies will make money due to this interdependence. And some will find themselves in...