Blog Category // Business Strategy & Process Improvement
The Highest-Stakes Filing You Can't Reconstruct: Wildfire Plans and the PSPS Decision Record
This week the California Public Utilities Commission proposed a $22 million penalty against PG&E for the 2022 Mosquito Fire, which burned more than 75,000 acres in Placer County. What's worth the ...
As a payments, risk, or compliance leader at a regional or mid-size bank, you have probably lived some version of this conversation: FedNow is live, RTP volumes keep climbing, your core provider says ...
Beyond the Filing: Why Execution Proof Is the New Strategic Priority
A recent piece in Utility Dive titled "Rate cases are strategy: Redefining how utilities drive regulatory outcomes" makes a compelling argument: utilities must stop viewing rate cases as necessary acc...
Hidden Cost of Hype: Revenue Cycle Realities at HFMA Annual Conference
Every year, the HFMA Annual Conference surfaces the same tension in new packaging: healthcare organizations are being asked to achieve more with shrinking margins, thinning teams, and rising complexit...
No Surprises Act Open Negotiation Period (ONP): How Providers Avoid Missed Deadlines and Lost Revenue
When the No Surprises Act first took effect, it was designed to protect patients from unexpected medical bills. But for healthcare providers, it quickly introduced a mountain of administrative and fin...
What EEI 2026 Made Clear: Moving Beyond Planning to Proof
For the better part of a decade, the electric utility sector focused heavily on planning. Roadmaps addressed incoming load, capital requirements, and critical hazards. Today, those planning questions ...
CMS Releases IDR Operations Final Rule: What You Need to Know
CMS has finally released the Operations Final Rule introducing significant updates to the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process established under the No Surprises Act (NSA). For provide...
What the NERC Wildfire Report Means for Your SRP Documentation Strategy
Electric utilities have spent the last several years building out System Resiliency Plans, investing billions in grid hardening, vegetation management, and infrastructure modernization. The regulatory...
Why AI Without Orchestration Is Just Expensive Guessing
A recent Utility Dive piece by Sean Burri, an infrastructure engineer at Dominion Energy, makes a point that deserves more attention than it is getting: deploying AI does not automatically improve uti...