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Episode 9 – Back to the Future: Nuclear…

Podcast

Nuclear generation is a critical strategic lever the energy industry can pull to expand capacity and serve large loads. It remains to be seen whether nuclear utilities…

Utility Executive Playbook for Managing Large Load Growth

Article

A practical playbook for utility executives navigating rapid data center and large-load growth. It outlines eight critical areas—from project qualification, financing, and forecasting to rate design, infrastructure…

Contract Life Cycle Management: How Leading Organizations Turn…

Article

The most effective organizations do not treat CLM as a document repository or a legal-only tool but as an operational system that governs every function that touches…

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Make-Ready Program Design

Case Study

Our client, a large investor-owned utility, was charged with implementing a $300M make-ready infrastructure program in support of state decarbonization and transportation electrification goals. Due to the…

Gone With the Steam

White Paper

In an era of “net-zero” carbon commitments, the electricity industry is working to identify zero-carbon replacements for coal.

Capital Deployment Playbook: Helping Utilities Succeed in a…

Article

Capital spending by U.S. investor-owned electric utilities has steadily increased over the past decade, a trend expected to continue. What are the considerations for utilities as they…

Integrated System Planning and Reliability

Article

Read how generation, transmission, and distribution planning can coordinate their planning processes by leveraging a common data structure, planning assumptions, and a single integrated modeling platform.

Navigating Complexity in a University’s Multifunction Shared Services

Case Study

ScottMadden helped our university client improve their multifunction shared services by sharing our expertise and knowledge of leading practices for cost savings and efficiency.

Streamlining Faculty Hiring Processes

Case Study

ScottMadden designed and implemented an integrated faculty hiring model at a public research university, streamlining processes, optimizing technology, and reducing time-to-hire to improve efficiency and support faculty…

Creating a Comprehensive People Strategy to Support the…

Case Study

ScottMadden worked with a large higher education and healthcare institution to unify and streamline their holistic people strategy.

Don’t Just Manage Change – Develop Leaders Who…

Article

An era of dramatic innovation calls for an approach beyond simply managing organizational change; it requires organizations to actively enable it, with strong leaders at the helm.