Leading utilities have sought opportunities to improve their capabilities for planning and managing asset infrastructure investments. This industry trend is picking up momentum and has also gained the attention of industry analysts, enterprise software companies, and other market participants. Accelerating interest in improved approaches to asset investment planning and management concepts and solutions is being driven by:

• Increasing utility capital and O&M needs to address aging infrastructure
• Reduced regulatory appetite for capital expenditure increases
• Broader utility enterprise interest in providing asset investment input
• Internal and external stakeholders who would like greater investment transparency
• A need to improve overall asset and investment risk management capabilities

This webinar will discuss the opportunities and benefits to move from a traditional organization’s “one-person asset investment planning spreadsheet capability” to enterprise-scale asset investment planning and management leading practices.  The webinar will highlight the importance of process change, asset- and investment-level risk management, change management and the strong business case to support asset investment planning and management transformation.

The agenda will also include an overview and brief demonstration of Clevest’s REVEAL product, the industry-leading platform for transmission and distribution (T&D) utility asset investment planning and management. REVEAL is a key technology component for helping utilities in the transformation to an enterprise-scale capability for broadening management of, accessibility to and transparency of short-term and long-term asset investment plans.

How Will Attendees Benefit From This Webinar?

Through a combination of the presentation and technology demonstration, attendees will learn more about how asset investment planning and management concepts and solutions address utility industry challenges. The key takeaways will be:

• Familiarization with the opportunity to enhance utility asset investment planning and management (AIPM) capability
•  An introduction to risk management and asset investment planning
• Awareness and value of AIPM transformation
• Demonstration of a T&D utility industry-leading AIPM solution

Paul Yarka Senior Executive Accenture
Trevor St. Germain Vice President Clevest

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 244,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.

The Accenture Utilities industry group works with more than 200 utilities in over 30 countries and serves 80 percent of the 2011 Global Fortune 500 utilities.  Accenture helps utilities achieve high performance by identifying and delivering business improvements across the utilities value chain.  Over the past 30 years, we have gained a deep understanding of utility industry best practices and have built a global, world-leading utilities business encompassing 10,000 people supporting Accenture utility clients around the world.

For more information, visit www.accenture.com/utilities.