Strategic rigidity and foresight for technology adoption among electric utilities

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

Technical Note: Strategic staffing model for electric utilities

Historically, utilities have been granted a natural monopoly status through the regulatory process. Under such conditions, utilities need to prove to their regulators that their expenditures were necessary to comply with imposed "obligation to serve." When these prudency arguments are successful, the utilities may recover their costs plus a rate of return. Some have argued that this structure h...

MADM Framework for Strategic Resource Planning of Electric Utilities

(ABSTRACT) This study presents a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) framework in support of strategic resource planning of electric utilities. Study efforts have focused on four technical issues identified to be essentially important to the process of strategic resource development, i.e., decision data expansion, MADM analysis with imprecise information, MADM analysis under uncertainty and ...

strategic technology adoption under technological uncertainty

Strategic Foresight Initiative

The Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) is a collaborative effort of the emergency management community facilitated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). SFI was launched so the emergency management community can seek to understand how the world is changing, and how those changes may affect the future of emergency management. Participants in SFI have identified nine drivers that a...