ITM 100 Case Study Question Final San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Vincent Lin 500523506 1) What are the business goals of SFPUC? How is knowledge management related to those goals? The business goals of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is to encourage efficient use of water and reducing water pollution‚ which is done by offering education‚ technical and financial assistance to all of its customers. The SFPUC provides water‚ treats wastewater and supplies municipal
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The History of Public Utilities A public utility is a business that supplies an amenity to the public at large. Public utilities provide water‚ electricity‚ natural gas‚ telephone service‚ trash and other essentials. With the rise of the cellular phone the telephone utility has seen a decrease in use. Typically a public utility has a natural monopoly on the service it provides. It is more economically efficient to have only one business provide the service. When it comes to charging for the services
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Environmental and Resource Economics 29: 137–157‚ 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 137 The Relationship between the Environmental and Financial Performance of Public Utilities GREG FILBECK1 and RAYMOND F. GORMAN2‚∗ 1 Adjunct Professor of Finance‚ University of Wisconsin – La Crosse; Senior Vice-President‚ Schweser Study Program‚ 1905 Palace Street‚ LaCrosse‚ WI 54603‚ USA; 2 Miami University‚ School of Business Administration‚ Oxford‚ OH 45056‚ USA;
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Haley Battista‚ John Conroy‚ Katie Early‚ John MacGovern Professor Holder-Webb AC 306 February 5‚ 2013 Big Bear Power public utility company is leasing a combustion turbine from Goliath Co. Big Bear signed a 10-year noncancelable lease on December 15‚ 2010. The lease begins on January 1‚ 2011. There are three provisions to this lease that need to be analyzed to tell if they should be included in the minimum lease payments. For provision one‚ Big Bear pays $500‚000 to an external legal counsel
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Study Exercise One Part One SWOT Analysis of adopting a new form of governance for Colorado Springs Utilities: Strengths (internal): • Politically insulates elected officials from unpopular‚ but necessary utility decisions • Reduces risk and legal liability to elected officials • Allows for greater subject matter expertise and focused attention on public utility issues by members of new utility board • Frees council members to focus their attention on other constituency issues • Allows for improved
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CASE related facts Western Utilities a privately owned utility company currently faced with financial inefficiencies resulting from an expansion of its facilities. President Robert Delgado has personally asked them to raise the standard of employee performance as well as setting goals that are not easily attainable. MBO is being implemented by John Givens and Hilda Hirsh to identify key standards with which to control performance. 3 year ago‚ MBO is implemented for the purpose of evaluating
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Water Bureau.3 These spiking increases are as a result of a Federal regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency effective 2014 which requires drinking water sources to be guarded against the chlorine-resistant parasite‚ cryptosporidium which Public Water Bureau of Portland believe to be non-existent in the pristine waters of the Bull Run. About 25 percent of the water rate increases is tied to the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandates that Portland deal with cryptosporidium which the City
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care/education be a public service with universal coverage or a private service? Should public services be privatized? . Currently‚ we are exposed to hear or watch several times in the radio or TV news important political people talking about reforms‚ which is sometimes only a cover way of talking about privatization of previously public services now and again. Defined in the strictest of terms‚ privatization means the sale of public utilities to private concerns. But as Public Works magazine noted
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Compare and contrast public goods‚ private goods‚ common resources‚ and natural monopolies. A public good is a good or service which is non-excludable‚ and which has no rivalry. It is financed through taxation‚ and is available to all. Its consumption does not reduce the amount available to others‚ and it is available even to those who don’t pay for it. Some examples of private goods may include national defense and law enforcement. A private good is a good or service which‚ if consumed‚ may
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of the leading corporation in the energy industry. This is done so through one of its holding companies‚ Pacific Gas and Electric Company or better known as PG&E. PG&E’s is the primary subsidiary for the corporation that provides customers with utility services and other energy generated services along with electricity‚ natural gas transmission‚ and the distribution of electricity. The primary area of operation of the company is the United States with its headquarters in San Francisco‚ California
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