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Remembering Mike

December 21, 1954-
August 9, 2012

 

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Four Themes to Successfully Navigating the Supreme Court Decision

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act confirms the direction of healthcare reform that had already begun a few years ago.  Many payers and providers, responding to the slowly emerging regulatory architecture of the law, have embarked on large scale transformational initiatives which will fundamentally change their business models forever.

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New Article

Payers and Providers: The Pressure On Payers Is Relentless

No matter the outcome of the Affordable Care Act, the long-term picture for payers remains uncertain. Even if all the ACA provisions are enforced by the Supreme Court, there are still many issues to sort out. If some of the provisions are struck down, then other issues will be encountered. In an unpredictable business environment, Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana decided to give itself a physical and make process improvements to control what we could control.

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Technology

Aligned Technology. Improved Systems.

With ever shortening technology life-cycles, pressure is mounting on embedded IT organizations, software companies, and information technology outsourcing firms to accelerate development and deployment of new technology solutions while keeping investment at a minimum. Moreover, information technology and sharing of information are pivotal to enabling strategy execution and business performance.  For these reasons Guidon pioneered the application of Lean Sigma, the fusion of today’s most powerful improvement tools – Lean and Six Sigma, in application development, project management and network operations.

Guidon’s Lean Sigma Information Technology management methodology is founded on the following principles:

  • Technology is a key resource for sharing information, data and best practices; enabling large scale transformation.
  • Organizations must build the capability to rapidly develop and deploy technology solutions and improve existing systems.
  • Relentlessly eliminate waste – unfinished work, delays, extra steps, minimal code versus over-production, task switching, defects, motion, chronic down time, unused features, etc – which do not directly add value for the customer.
  • Accelerate results and transformation with collaborative, cross-functional iterations – Sigma Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology.

If you need to build new capabilities within your IT organization, empower and align IT resources with end users, minimize capital expense or increase functionality and usability, Guidon’s Lean IT solution can help.

Contact Guidon About A Custom Solution

To learn more about how a custom solution from Guidon can help your organization, contact us through our website or call us toll free at 1.866.986.4414 or 480.986.4414 for international calls.