“Innovations with Utility”SM
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Utilivate Technologies, LLC is a management consulting and professional management services firm headquartered in Downtown Chicago. Utilivate provides actionable, energy management and strategic management/marketing services to businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies. Utilivate’s management/marketing solutions target new product, service, and business development. Utilivate also manages ongoing programs, projects, and other strategic initiatives for clients.
Utilivate uses state-of-the-art business practices, mastery of the innovation management process, e-business infrastructure, and an exceptional team of technical and business experts in providing its management services.
Client satisfaction and adoption of developed innovations and/or project recommendations are our primary measures of business success.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the premier management consulting and professional management firm providing product, service, and business development and business transformation solutions to clients throughout the United States…bar none!
BUSINESS TOOLS AND PROCESSES
Utilivate’s proprietary, core business tools underpin the above services and facilitate exceptional performance and service delivery:
- The ADOPT™ Innovation Management Process
- E-Business Infrastructure
ADOPT™ Innovation Management Process: Utilivate’s ADOPT™ Innovation Management Process is a proprietary approach to identify, manage, and solve complex business challenges using a customized and integrated stage/gate innovation management methodology. Project management, an important component of ADOPT™, is a means of defining, prioritizing, and establishing the relationship between the critical steps required to successfully conduct and conclude a project on time…on budget…and with exceptional quality. The stage/gate process ensures that critical business/strategic, technical, market, legal, financial, and political/regulatory questions that will impact the successful outcome of challenging projects are asked and answered at key stages of the assignment.
E-Business Infrastructure: A web-based innovation/project management system is used by Utilivate staff to plan and manage projects and report on progress towards deliverables. Clients have on-line access to clear graphical, tabular, and textual updates on progress towards goals.
BUSINESS SERVICES & SOLUTIONS
Utilivate Technologies offers the following product and services:
Energy Management Solutions: Utilivate provides a broad range of customized energy management solutions to clients: supply-side, energy information, demand-side, and asset management. Utilivate works with customers to sharply reduce bottom-line energy costs using a range of technology innovations and process improvements and its proprietary “Whole Enterprise™” approach to strategic energy management.
For its energy management training program, Utilivate uses its proprietary and proven "Strategic Energy Planning Workshop" process. This process is designed to help Energy Managers and other facility professionals whose responsibilities include developing and implementing a comprehensive and sustainable energy management program for their organizations.
The training program recognizes that a successful program must integrate energy planning with other critical planning activities. The workshop participants will gain a better understanding of the ways in which accountability for results, establishment of meaningful measures and goals, a commitment to regular review, and the personal endorsement of senior leadership are all critical ingredients for an effective energy management program. Participants leave our training program armed with powerful new tools they can apply right away to more effectively guide their organization toward achieving optimum and sustained long-term energy savings.
Utilivate provides comprehensive energy management services to prioritize and implement high-impact, energy conservation measures. Utilivate works closely with clients in developing a comprehensive energy baseline and its proprietary Performance-Grade™ Energy Audit for targeted facilities.
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Management Consultancy and Professional Management Services: Utilivate Technologies leverages its core competencies to provide the following management solutions to energy/utility companies, government agencies, manufacturers, and other companies and organizations to help achieve outstanding business and operational performance:
- Strategic marketing strategies/market research/community outreach
- Strategic planning/management
- Program management services for ongoing organizational initiatives
- Project management services (simple or complex, technical or administrative)
- Business/project due diligence and valuation
- Political/regulatory strategies to achieve product/project adoption
- Business process reengineering
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Management Training/Education: Utilivate staff leverages its extensive corporate, organizational, business, and educational experience and expertise in providing management training and education through its popular and proprietary, everydayMBA ® product offering. The everydayMBA ® seminar series provides “cutting-edge business, professional, and personal development tools for today…tomorrow…everyday!”SM.
Utilivate has effectively tailored its everydayMBA ® program to help build and strengthen small and emerging growth businesses as well as government agencies.
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Utilivate™ R&D/New Product Ventures: Utilivate develops and commercializes technologies to improve business operations and performance. A key component of this service is assessing market potential for new products and services and performing market development activities.
Utilivate Technologies, a strategic partner with Gas Operations Innovation Alliance, provides a service offering called, “Gas Operations Innovation Monitor – A Subscription Service”. The subscription service has over eighteen gas distribution utilities subscribers on three continents, serving over 22 million customers in North America. The subscription service captures useful information on new products and techniques from sources as varied as university laboratories and technology transfer centers to venture capital firms in both the U.S. and overseas.
Subscribers receive information via the Alliance’s online monthly publication, Technology Market Watch. In addition, twice quarterly, subscribers receive the publication, Gas Distribution Innovation Insights, a comprehensive, in-depth analysis on a selected high-priority issue in gas distribution innovation.
Utilivate’s vast experience in new product development applies directly to new program and business service development. Utilivate has worked with government agencies and private industry to reengineer existing programs and craft new programs that are both compelling and financially profitable.
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Certifications: GSA MOBIS Contract Holder (Federal), Minority Business Enterprise, MBE (State of Illinois, County of Cook, City of Chicago), HubZone (Federal). Approved Vendor (Chicago Park District, Chicago Transit Authority, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools)
SELECTED TEAM MEMBERS
The Utilivate Team brings great depth and decades of experience in providing management services to clients. Staff and resources have been specifically selected who are extremely comfortable in the realms of technology, business, and customer relationships.
Marlon McClinton Founder, President & CEO of Utilivate Technologies, leverages over twenty years of experience and leadership in energy management, R&D performance, executive management, and product commercialization for the energy/utility industry and residential, commercial, and industrial markets, most recently as Vice President at Gas Research Institute (now GTI). Marlon’s leadership led to the delivery of over fifteen hardware and software products annually to the marketplace over each of the past several years. Marlon formed several new companies to commercialize the successfully developed technologies. Marlon has served on the Board of several companies, including Envinta, an energy management firm.
Marlon has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Marlon serves as Adjunct Professor of Management and Marketing at Northeastern Illinois University and is a sought-after lecturer on the business transformation process. In addition, Marlon is a member of the American Gas Association.
Walter Roberson, Principle Consultant and Vice President of Finance, has held analytical positions in finance at Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil Corporation) and American Express. In this role he acted as an internal consultant to senior business unit executives to recommend business process improvements. Walter is very familiar and comfortable with analyzing the key success factors for various businesses. Walter has also been responsible for analyzing both start-up and established businesses for the Small Business Administration. Walter has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering and an MBA from Stanford University. Walter is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, with knowledge of Java 1.3, Visual Basic 6, and website design.
Jose N. Urzagste, Senior Energy Consultant, has over 25 years of experience with industrial manufacturing plants, commercial and institutional buildings in the field of energy conservation/energy management. Jose’s professional experience energy management has also lead him to work with various manufacturers of farm equipment, food, pharmaceuticals, textiles, foundries, heat treating, rubbers, chemicals, fiber glass, paper and plastics. He has also worked with management teams in power plants, schools, and hospitals.
Wayne Dawson, Senior Project Manager, is a multi–disciplined professional with a strong project management orientation and keen ability to design and implement custom technology enabled business solutions. Wayne has a Bachelors of Science in Networking and Communications from DeVry University and a Masters of Project Management from Keller Graduate School.
OUR VALUES & CULTURE
- Utilivate is committed to providing the highest level of quality and service to clients.
- Utilivate is committed to the highest ethical standards in all matters of business, professional, and personal conduct in interfacing with clients and other stakeholders.
- Utilivate is a "people-centered" organization and places great value on the professional and personal development of all staff. Utilivate strongly believes that only a highly motivated workforce will best deliver outstanding customer service and value.
- Utilivate places great value on teamwork and working seamlessly across boundaries on behalf of clients.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Utilivate staff organizes and participates in "Energy to Run". Runners throughout the United States are encouraged to run in their local marathon to benefit their local Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Marlon McClinton runs annually in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon to benefit LIHEAP.
Utilivate contributes annually to the Chicago Park District Rainbow Fleet Summer Sailing Camp's "Support a Youth” program targeting low-income families.
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