- Six Sigma: a component to reduce company’s $800,000,000 – 1 billion debt reduction plan.
- Power Iowa : building of a new billion dollar natural gas and coal fired power plant and transmission
enhancements with a strong emphasis on energy efficiency and renewable energy over a five-year period.
- Combustion Initiative: $40 million a year voluntary environmental initiative to apply R&D strategies to
reduce emissions and decrease fuel use at aging plant facilities.
- Enterprise Security Program: to introduce good practices for employee awareness of new policies,
procedures and standards.
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Internal Financial Controls: to ensure adequate internal control
structure for financial reporting.
- Integrated, Digital, Enhanced, Network Technology: phases two and three of a $50 million project
to provide common voice and data platform across the company’s territory.
- Midwest Market Initiative: to help advance changes due to restructuring of Midwestern US wholesale
electricity market.
- Asset Care: managing power plant equipment and facilities.
- Year 2000/Y2K Program: the pervasive problem that many applications are designed to handle 20th century dates.
- eBusiness: conducting business on the internet - - servicing customers and collaborating with business partners.
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