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Practical Perspectives for Utility Leaders
Northstar shares practical perspectives from real-world utility transformation experience covering strategy, technology, operations, people, governance, and execution.
Utility transformation, viewed from the work itself.
A focused resource for utility executives, managers, and project leaders who need practical perspective before the next decision, milestone, or program turn.
AMI & Smart Utility
Turning metering investments into operational insight, customer value, and durable adoption.
Digital Customer Experience
Clearer, easier utility interactions across self-service, payments, communications, and support.
Technology Strategy & Selection
Requirements, evaluation, governance, and decisions that hold up beyond the demonstration.
Implementation & Transformation
The people, processes, readiness, and leadership required to make change stick.
Project Assurance
Independent visibility into quality, risk, testing, readiness, and delivery progress.
Featured insights
Practical thinking for consequential utility work.
CIS & Customer Operations5 min read
Replacing Your CIS? Don't Start With the RFP
Why successful CIS modernization starts with operations, processes, readiness and requirements.
Discuss this perspectiveProject Assurance6 min read
Seven Warning Signs Your CIS Implementation Is Getting Into Trouble
How utility leaders can recognize project risk early and take corrective action.
Discuss this perspectiveAMI & Smart Utility4 min read
AMI Is More Than a Meter Project
How utilities can turn AMI investments into operational and customer value.
Discuss this perspectiveTechnology Strategy & Selection5 min read
The RFP Is Only as Good as the Requirements Behind It
Why disciplined needs assessment and requirements development drive better technology decisions.
Discuss this perspectiveImplementation & Transformation4 min read
Technology Doesn't Fix a Broken Business Process
Why process re-engineering should be central to utility transformation.
Discuss this perspectiveProject Assurance5 min read
Testing Is Not a Phase—It's a Project Discipline
Why testing strategy, planning and governance are critical to successful implementation.
Discuss this perspectiveNorthstar Perspectives
Short observations from the field.
Focused points of view for leaders who need to connect executive priorities to the operational, technology, and delivery realities that follow.
The operating model is part of the technology decision.
A platform choice changes roles, handoffs, data ownership, and the way work moves through the utility.
Readiness is built long before go-live.
The strongest programs make time for decisions, ownership, testing, training, and communication throughout delivery.
Independent assurance is most valuable when it is early.
Objective visibility helps leadership act while risks are still manageable—not after they become outcomes.
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