This Ain't Your Grandmother's Utility Anymore
January 26, 2017
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham
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Episode Description
The buzz: “We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires” (Dave Barry). Utilities are facing immense pressure to do more for less. New entrants in the marketplace are pressing traditional Utilities to adopt new service delivery approaches or risk stagnant or declining revenue and margins. Digitalization of customer engagement, asset management, and financial optimization is pushing Utilities to rethink business models to drive revenue growth without employee growth. Is it doable? The experts speak. James McClelland, SAP: “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things” (Machiavelli). Jill Feblowitz, Feblowitz Energy Consulting: “You must do the things you think you cannot do” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Join us for Ain’t Your Grandmother’s Utility Anymore.
Game-Changing Utilities of the Future, Presented by SAP
Archives Available on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions.
Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional Coffee Break with Game-Changers for our special series on Game-Changing Utilities of the Future.
We’ll explore the complete range from the customer experience to the digital workforce and how the utilities industry is transforming or reinventing themselves in this Digital Age.
Learn how you can become the savvy Leader who takes your company across the finish line as you look ahead to the next wave of business innovation. Game-Changing Utilities of the Future, presented by SAP, on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Bonnie D. Graham
Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”
