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Has Victoria missed an opportunity to create a Smart State?

Has Victoria missed an opportunity to create a Smart State?

Anyone I speak to who is involved in the electricity industry in Australia and even some who are not, has a view of Victoria’s distributor led smart meter rollout. Regardless of opinion, the facts are most Victorian households have smart meters. Across the five...
Is it time for Utilities to rethink the CIS?

Is it time for Utilities to rethink the CIS?

For over a decade many of us in the industry, including the major research firms, have been promoting the benefits of large centralized customer information systems (CIS) from a single vendor. Such an approach may still be valid for some, but with the transformation...
Why do we design customer experience assuming the worst?

Why do we design customer experience assuming the worst?

I have been thinking about how we can design great customer experience and reflected on a recent issue I have encountered.  I realised that, despite good intentions, many organisations tend to develop processes with an implied principle that customers cannot be...