Best Innovative Utility Analytics Team Award – Who Will be our 2023 Winner?

Hello UAI Members,

As we kick-off into May, we have under two months left to submit your nominations for the 2023 UAI Excellence Awards. Thank you to our members who have already taken the time to nominate an individual and/or team for a UAI Award! We wish you the best of luck! For all other members, please visit our 2023 UAI Excellence Awards page online where you can learn more about this year’s six award categories, watch past award ceremonies, and nominate those that you want to recognize within your organization. If you have any questions, please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com. 

Today, I wanted to feature another one of our six award categories, THE BEST INNOVATIVE UTILTY ANALYTICS TEAM AWARD. This award recognizes utility analytics teams for their successes around innovation, problem, solving, and culture building. Last year, the Consolidated Edison Customer Data Analytics Program blew us away and it was a huge pleasure to honor them for this award! @Leslie was able to sit down with their team for a short interview which I’ve included below.

THE BEST INNOVATIVE UTILTY ANALYTICS TEAM AWARD 

This award recognizes teams that have set and achieved the highest standards of excellence in utility analytics for problem solving in innovative ways and takes the time to instill that culture in their employees. Nominees must demonstrate how their organization best leverages its analytics staff, practices and approaches, and technology to drive innovation to accomplish strategic business objectives. They must be able to show how well new approaches and/or technology are defined and executed or improved to create innovative solutions/uses cases or innovative approaches to problems. Judging is based on the following elements: 

• Clear vision, mission, and strategy for the analytics team, and alignment with the business’ goals and strategy, plus a thoughtful and strategic philosophy around analytics
• Examples of NEW approaches and technology executions and/or IMPROVEMENTS to practices and technology that lead to one of the following innovation solution(s)/use case(s):

• A favorable outcome, like a high return on investment (ROI), improved efficiency/reliability/sustainability, increased safety, reduction in risk, etc.
• A new/innovative approach to an old or common problem