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Altos methods
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Are all doctors the same? Are all lawyers the same? Are all restaurants the same? Are all consultants the same? Are the biggest and most expensive providers necessarily the best? Should you merely buy from the low cost provider? Assuredly not. There are tangible distinctions that set winning service providers like Altos apart from the rest:
Unique Innovative Methods.
Winners like Altos conceive and provide unique decision technology and methods that are demonstrably the best in class, and we have reliable and consistent processes for delivering them to our customers. Unique, innovative methods like ours do not stand still; they continuously evolve and improve. Unique, innovative methods are not always the most user-friendly; they are consistently ahead of their peers. Innovative methods are never "commodities;" you cannot buy success off the shelf at the software store or over the internet. True value augmentation requires customization, hard work, focus, experience, and innovation of the type Altos provides.
Advanced Starting Point.
Winners like Altos keep at hand a portfolio of past
successful solutions that are proven and already working. We extract pieces to create customized solutions to new problems, saving time, increasing accuracy, and giving our customers an advanced starting point. We reuse, reapply, integrate, and augment pieces of the old portfolio, expanding our tool kit systematically as we do so. Winners like Altos provide data, information, intelligence, and knowledge products that start "70 percent of the way there" so that our customers only have to customize the last 30 percent and so that they can begin to make better decisions from the first day of the Altos project.
Gifted People.
True progress and value-added rarely come from using journeyman labor or "standardized" approaches. They come from brilliant people in the right place at the right time with the courage, capability, interest, and resources to solve the problem in the right way. The great business successes of our day have been successes of brilliance, innovation, and commitment of the type Altos provides to its selected customers.
Brainpower and the Willingness to Use It.
Winners like Altos do not blindly resort to a cookbook, a corporate look and feel, the latest trendy management gimmick, a prefabricated solution looking for a problem, or a bevy of junior people working under the tutelage of a largely absent, overcommitted senior person. Winners like Altos put their most senior people to the task of solving problems for our clients, not relegating them to administrative duties in favor of untested or inexperienced people. Winners like Altos are not afraid to combine today's raw brainpower with yesterday's best in class solutions.
Experience.
Experience must complement brilliance. Winners like Altos are experienced at what we do. We have grappled with many business problems, some similar and some dissimilar to yours. Winners like Altos borrow solutions from other industries and combine them with the specifics of your situation, thereby focusing the best science and experience on your problem.
Follow Through.
Winners like Altos move decisively along a clear path from conceptualization to implementation. "Strategy," data, and software are legend in their failure to add value to most corporations. Winners like Altos work with our customers not just to define strategy or software solutions but to actually implement, execute, and monitize them. An Altos client said it best: "A good strategy unimplemented is no better than a bad strategy or no strategy." Altos melds implementation together with strategy.
Crystal Clear Communication.
It is not enough to merely offer a solution to your problem. Winners like Altos communicate the solution effectively to senior management, partners, bankers, government, and other constituents who need to be in the loop. Altos is recognized for its clear, crisp communication skills, written and oral. Our clients know the right answer and why.
Track Record of Success.
Winners like Altos have a demonstrable history of success and value creation, and the market knows about that track record; it is not necessary to hype it. Our track record of success dates back 25 years and has spanned
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"You have helped PGT immeasurably in understanding North American gas markets and the role of our assets in that market. Your testimony in our FERC case was outstanding. You can use me as an enthusiastic reference."
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Pacific Gas Transmission Company
Robert Howard, Director of Regulatory Affairs
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decisions
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Sempra Energy hired Altos to calculate nodal forward prices throughout the MAIN (Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and contiguous states) region in order to help them decide whether to develop gas fired power plants at various locations in MAIN. Specific locations and objectives are confidential. The assignment led to specific recommendations by Altos to Sempra.
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Altos North American Electricity Model
The Altos North American Electric model simulates how regional interactions between fuel supply, generation, inbound transmission, outbound transmission, load, and consumption interact to determine market clearing prices, flowing energy, and new capacity additions at each forward point in time.
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