Archived Newsletter Editorial
Now May Be The Time

January 12, 2009

I prefer to stay up beat, but at some point you simply have to face the music... we're in uncertain times. When the government admits it, it's time to concede the point.

In these uncertain times, normal everyday challenges become encumbered by greater pressures to reduce costs. The trick is to find ways to eliminate wasteful spending without losing your high standards for quality, compliance or customer satisfaction. But with the new challenges come new opportunities to make clear the value you and your department provide the organization. Improving processes, practices and procedures are great ways to reduce department costs while maintaining quality standards, demonstrating value and commitment to the organization. Working smarter instead of just cheaper.

Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager, fortunately for you, was designed to help you strike this balance. The software allows you to control your business processes around asset management, to help ensure what needs to get done for quality reasons does get done and documented, for compliance reasons. In short, it allows you to transfer responsibility for keeping track of business processes from your engineers, technicians and metrologists to the software, freeing up their time for more value-adding work.

A project of this nature, designed to improve processes and lower operating costs, is one that can find support early in times of uncertainty as companies are looking for ways to work smarter and to prepare for the immediate future. I encourage you to talk to your Sales Manager, find out what an implementation of Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager would cost at your facility. Then run it up the flagpole, see what happens. Then at least you've done your part to prepare the organization and demonstrated your value to the organization.

Bryce Johannes
Director of Marketing
Blue Mountain Quality Resources, Inc.