How many of your technology projects fail to deliver the returns you expected?

Before allocating your IT budget, what questions should you ask about the projects you are considering?

As utilities leverage IT in more areas of their operations, utility executives and managers have to acquire a deeper understanding of technology to succeed at the business level. Unfortunately, there is seldom enough time or resources to research and evaluate all the possible strategies and risks for a given initiative.

Insufficient preparation can result in a failed project or a completed project that does not support corporate objectives. To avoid these scenarios, several utility companies have engaged everse to leverage our combination of industry experience and technology expertise to make the most informed decisions regarding their IT spending.

Based on our experience with utilities, we have identified five of the most common and important questions a utility should ask before spending its IT budget. We have synthesized this experience and examples of what other utilities are doing into a whitepaper entitled "5 Critical Issues for Utility Executives to Consider before Spending on Technology".