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Direct Energy: Evolving a New Role for IT

In 2005 top management of Direct Energy, a rapidly growing energy utility, distribution and trading company, recruited a new CIO to be a member of the executive team. The case describes three years of significant change in the role of IT and…

By Cyrus Gibson

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