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strategy+business: ENERGY
A close look at the pressures facing energy companies and ideas on how to implement new technologies and strategies that will boost productivity and increase growth
- Taking a Chance on Oil
Geopolitical and financial uncertainty contribute more than an imbalance between supply and demand to sky-high oil prices. - What's So Smart about the Smart Grid?
Changes in the ways consumers use electricity have spurred the need for a more intelligent way to distribute energy. - A Clear Look at Biofuels
Myths abound regarding the pros and cons of biofuels. Here is a scorecard to separate truth from fiction. - Fulvio Conti: The Thought Leader Interview
The CEO of Europe's second-largest utility says that energy companies must adapt in a fast-changing global marketplace. - The Digital Oil Field Advantage
Interactive new technologies that collect and analyze data in the field are revolutionizing the oil industry and easing the widespread problems associated with labor shortages. - Signals for the Coming Year
Change may be certain, but for a business decision maker, some changes have more impact than others. Here are eight trends that will make the greatest difference in 2008. - The Other Energy Crisis
As nuclear energy becomes a viable alternative to carbon-based fuels, security is a vital concern. Here's how private markets might be able to help. - How Green Is My Value Chain?
Transforming the value chain into a value loop can save natural resources and enhance a business's long-term prospects. - Unprecedented and Unseen: The Next Great Energy Challenge
While oil and gas industries ramp up "megaprojects" to meet demand, few companies really know how to manage them effectively. In the face of major talent shortages and increasingly complicated legal environments, global players are scrambling to navigate labyrinthine partnerships and attempting ambitious, unproven strategies to keep major projects moving forward. Indeed, logistical challenges, rather than dwindling oil, may be the greatest short-term threat to the global supply of crude oil. - Crisis in the Oil and Gas Industry
During the 80s and 90s, the oil and gas industry laid off hundreds of thousands of skilled workers, driving them into different sectors and scaring off the younger generation of scientists and engineers. Today they are paying for those practices with an acute talent shortage that threatens to stall the boom in exploration and investment. Expensive quick-fixes, like poaching senior employees from rivals and delaying retirement, won't work forever. Eventually, the major firms will have to radically restructure their human resources policies to develop a new generation of talent.