Energy Biz - July/August 2008 - (Page 36) L eAdership roundtAbL es rauber ortega Varn Linahan Here coMeS tHe SMart griD senior operations Executives address the Challenges ahead By warren Causey / photos by dianne Brogan / U 36 e n e rgyb i z TILITY OPERATIONAL EXECUTIVES, INCLUDINg CHIEF operating officers, vice presidents of operations and others, are well aware of the intelligent utility enterprise and smart grid movements sweeping the industry. But they also say it’s probably coming more slowly than many who see an impending energy crisis looming in the United States and the rest of the world would hope. Utilities remain somewhat crippled with respect to embracing a digital transformation because operations and engineering still operate as a separate silo from the information technology function. Increasingly, information technology managers seek to install more highly unified systems across the enterprise. Unfortunately, many operations executives continue to look upon IT as a support function, instead of seeing IT as keeping information derived from real-time systems and enterprise systems. When operations executives overlook the advantages of fully integrated information systems, they risk coming up short of the tools they will need in the near future to deal with many pressing issues. July/August 2008
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