Stress Test Business Decision Support

摘要

In our uncertain, volatile business environment, it is necessary to step back, look at our decision processes and ask, "Do we have robust processes to best manage our energy business?" Using terminology popularized by current events, this downturn in the economic cycle might be considered a stress test for your company's business decision-making process. If your company's business deci-sion processes are strong, they are de-pendable through expanding and con-trading economic cycles. Flexible and comprehensive processes capture all aspects of the business so that even if some elements have little or no impact today, they will be reflected in future plans. That is, as market or regulatory rules change, the process has not misstated or forgotten components of the economic picture that might become bigger parts later.