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Information Technology Case Studies

Getting IT Right
This large manufacturer of construction equipment needed to formalize the methods the business used to request IT services in order to provide a framework for tracking effort and metrics to assess overall efficiency. They also wanted to find ways to better align their IT processes with the needs of the company and translate the LeanSigma benefits the company had achieved in manufacturing to their IT department.

Asset Receiving: Using Lean Tools To Reduce Costs In A Data Center
Increased demand for new device installation within the client’s data center created large component inventory stockpiles. Guidon helped the client to better manage inventory, control costs and reduce project delays by improving the handling of component parts.

Using Lean Six Sigma to Accelerate Product Development
One of the largest cable providers in the United States needed to accelerate the development of new advertising products to support its growth strategy. See how Guidon helped this client achieve its main goal of streamlining the development process, while becoming more aligned with the voice of the customer and significantly reducing the development cycle.

Using Lean Tools To Deliver A Loan Origination System
See how Guidon helped our client develop a small business loan processing system in 12 months with minimum initial investment. Factors such as meeting international requirements, a technology base that was new to the company and an internationally dispersed workforce added to the complexity of the project.

Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve Retail Point-of-Sale System
The client’s retail point-of-sale system, which suffered from slow response times and intermittent downtime, could no longer support a quickly growing sales volume. A cross-functional team used Lean Sigma tools to identify the root causes of bandwidth problems and server downtime.

Lean Six Sigma Tools Enable Data Center to Keep Up with Customer Demand
To keep up with demand, a global Fortune 500 technology company needed to install 3,000 to 4,000 new hardware devices every month. Even with a six-month delivery window, its customers routinely experienced month-long delays and other project failures. Learn how Guidon helped correct this problem and eliminate delays.

 

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Process Improvement in Accounts Receivable

For this specialty pharmacy, the payment complexity between Physician diagnosis, acceptable payor requirements, benefits eligibility, patient financial responsibility and governmental or regulatory requirements either delayed or exasperated bad debt. Unable to control growing bad debt losses, senior leadership targeted a specific goal to reduce bad debt through the identification of bad debt root causes.

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Improving Lab Efficiency: It all boils down to process, process, process

"It's not a good time. We'll get to that later." How many times have you heard or said something similar when discussing critical laboratory process improvements? "Later" often turns into never. You may be too overloaded to deploy new initiatives, but waiting only exacerbates the challenges. Processing delays and errors due to overcapacity have surely led to preventable patient deaths--a tragic yet completely unnecessary situation. It takes just days to effectively install efficiency processes utilizing LeanSigma lab tactics and less than a week to positively impact patient outcomes while reducing laboratory stress.

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