Our Offerings

Experience Informed. Client Driven.

We have set strategy at the earliest stages for large complex programs. We have supported programs in scaling and optimizing around transformative technology. We have served in interim management roles to enable clients to accelerate to value while preparing for a new future.

Following this, our services are based around a core set of flexible and modular offerings with the underlying capabilities to support clients regardless of their maturity level. Cookie cutter is not in our vocabulary; experience can help accelerate to success but no two businesses should be treated exactly the same. We tailor each of our solutions and approaches to account for each client’s unique operational context to maximize return on investment in terms of the metrics that matter most to their business.

Strategy

Connect mission and vision to strategic objectives, identify and vet investments, and create governance for a structurally more sustainable operating model

Advise
Operations Transformation

Transition from legacy processes, build digital capabilities, and unlock the value of data in supporting all levels of the organization

Implement
Operations Management

Stand-up and sustain complex programs with the correct mix of people, processes, and technology; fill capability gaps rapidly and transition to internal resources

Operate

Our Differentiators

Utility Benchmarking

• Assess operational (inspections, distribution, substation, transmission, etc.) programs and capabilities across the industry to identify peer utilities, understand relative program maturity, and document viable best practices to support program development.
• Host collaboration sessions and serve as a facilitator for multiple peer utilities with comparable requirements. Sessions focus on sharing best practices on desired capabilities addressing strategic problems across the enterprise, and creating speed to value and unified proposal opportunities.
Utility Industry Technology Alignment

• Define prioritized technology roadmap aligned to identified use cases, standards, and requirements, and evaluate vendors with technology scalers to improve productivity and sustainable deployment.
• Partner relationships exist with drone service providers (DSPs), AI/ML companies, UAS manufacturers, data processing vendors, and more. These partners enable us to continuously understand the leading edge of the technology capabilities and bring speed-to-value when bringing the technologies to our clients.
AI/ML Capabilities

• Identify opportunities and define requirements to accelerate development of AI/ML capabilities tailored to specific business problems, resulting in lower costs, improved inspection quality, and faster time-to-value.
• Pair and work directly with choice product partner(s) to develop and implement customized solutions to enable organizations to capitalize on their programs while minimizing risk.
Capitalization Opportunities

• For the larger IOUs, identify opportunities to shift OpEx to CapEx and support approach with business cases, peer benchmarks, and regulatory approval approaches.
• Current efforts have identified opportunities to capitalize technology-driven and asset life extension operational programs (e.g., aerial inspections via an asset inventory update and intrusive pole inspections).

Our Results

Industry leaders in energy and infrastructure are facing a need to do more with less which requires businesses to optimize costs, operate more efficiently, and enhance their workforce. Our solutions and capabilities are aimed at enabling shifts in the way our clients operate their business and manage the value of their assets.

Cost Optimization
Businesses, specifically utilities, face intense pressure to optimize their cost profile by lowering operating expenses and shifting to capital expenditures while identifying cost offsets and new revenue streams in this dynamic environment. We have supported businesses in achieving these goals through:
- Eliminating redundant efforts in data collection and management and create shared service models that consolidate and lower total cost
- Conducting long range planning to right-size and streamline cost heavy operational programs by optimizing workforce mix, leveraging technology as a force multiplier, and aligning annual campaign variables that can lower annual budgets and create predictability
- Identifying technology driven cost capitalization efforts across the data lifecycle to include automation development which supports cost transformation and long-term return on investment
Operational Efficiency
Operational excellence is at the core of a business’s ability to maximize the allocation of their resources and achieve their strategy. We have supported companies in generating efficiency gains by:
- Creating operational, data, and technology standards that streamline procurement and planning and drive higher quality, throughput, and insights during execution, while centralized storage enables multiple use cases to be served from a singular data set
- Optimizing field requirements for compliance vs. risk-based inspections through strategy and technology that promotes risk mitigation throughput in the field and enables segmentation of compliance requirements to an optimal schedule and right-sized resourcing
- Streamlining operational logistics through strategy, trend data, and technology that manages annual planning to mitigate operational slow downs, minimize logistics, and support remote work completion enabling optimal alignment of skillsets and time
Workforce Enhancement
The profile for the workforce required for asset-centric businesses has challenges of total supply and adequate skillsets to meet evolving demands. Businesses must identify how to maximize the utility of their resources in a period of high turnover and changing work preferences. We have supported businesses in unlocking the value of their resources through:
- Centralizing engineering and field operational work using digital data collection and storage which supports the reduction of field logistics requirements and sustainment of operations in a remote work environment
- Utilizing data to direct the skilled workforce at the highest impact, most complex work requirements; transition dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks to digital and/or automated solutions
- Developing optimized operating models to create common organizational focus and clear roles and responsibilities to minimize waste

Our Experience

Proven outcomes. Lasting connections.

Our practitioners and partners have worked together for years creating significant impact through the development and application of unique asset management solutions. Managing large-scale programs involving data collection and digitization of legacy processes requires a unique skillset in order to balance scope, schedule, and cost. Our practice has demonstrated experience in balancing these considerations while accelerating successful outcomes in the digital transformation environment. References for case studies available upon request.