Change means a new level of interdependencies  OGE Energy’s CIO
talks about change management  Published In: Intelligent Utility
March / April 2012    The change is transformational within the
industry and how we do business, because we're being hit from so
many sides with so many different things.  If you talk about the
IT department specifically, again, it can't be a silo in itself,
because people, processes and technology all have to work
together. It's an interesting industry, because in so much, it's
been very project-based. You get a project, you get it done, you
move on.  Well, it's different now. When your projects don't go
and operate themselves, you have a whole bunch of skills needed
that need to work together. And this is also true of the big
picture outside of IT. A power plant does not operate now
without a significant amount of information technology. Within
IT, too, you can't buy software and expect it to run by itself.
Here is why I say the big issue is change: we're handling a
level of inte