By now, many of us have been working remotely for a few weeks. With “shelter-in-place” becoming more prevalent (Houston just extended its “shelter-in-place” on this week), more...
A booming business is a good problem to have. As your business scales up, the additional work can affect your company’s departments disproportionately. Some departments will be...
The two major aspects of my life are raising two boys, and my career as an energy consultant, and I love both aspects. The two aspects of my life have natural synergies and...
Humans love consistency. Sure, we occasionally want to be scared, or surprised, or to discover new things. But we mostly like things to be predictable.
The current downturn in oil prices has thrown our industry into a difficult series of deep cost-cutting exercises to maintain cash flow without sacrificing the future. While...
Among commodity trading organizations, there is an unexpectedly wide variety of internal credit risk analysis processes. Many firms measure less than is prudent given their...
How many times have you looked at the list of data sources coming into your commodity/energy trading and risk management systems (CTRM/ETRM systems) and been shocked at the...
In our last blog on this subject, Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Delivery Approach is Right for You?, we focused on two standard project management methodologies – Waterfall and...
Modeling the relationships between markets is sometimes underappreciated as a prerequisite to solid risk analysis. Market relationships reflect linkages between markets that...
Since 1904, the concept of "general intelligence" was widely accepted. The idea was that people who are good at one mental task tend to be good at many others. With changes in...
During a recent conversation with one of our clients, we were discussing market data for commodities and the best way to store and access them. For the uninitiated, commodity-...
There are four distinct generations represented by the majority of Americans in the workplace. According to a study by Dr. Bea Bourne, Purdue University, generational...
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