Enterprise Management cost cutting applications
Management cost cutting measures
● DELTA AIRLINES Operational Cost Saving Strategies 
● University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Selects Network Automation to Integrate Its Business Applications; AutoMate(TM) Improves the Management and Staffing of More Than 2,700 Nurses
● Nacogdoches Memorial Cuts Hospital Costs by More Than $1 Million in Only Nine Months
● SOUTH CAROLINA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES SELF ASSESSMENT 
● With Flightman™, Futura International Airways cut costs and measure costs more accurately while improving service quality and reducing the workload on the staff 
● Daiichi Pharmaceutical Selects Medidata Solutions for Cost-Effective, Multilingual Clinical Trials
● WHITING PARTNERS saved £70 000 
● Premier Launches Best Practice Surgical Trays; Hospitals to Realize Significant Savings
● Asset Management Control In Shipping 
● Local Government Saving Strategies 
● 60
Cost Cutting Tips in 60 Minutes
● Sara Lee Corporation Says Transformation Plan Cost Saving Initiatives Ahead of Schedule; Will Take Related Charges in the Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 2005
● University
Builds an Intelligent Learning Environment
with a Cisco Network 
● Optimizing
and Securing Cargo Using Network Technology 
● How
To Get Things Done: A Guide To Strategic Planning
● Managed
Services Help You Thrive - Out-tasking network functions lets
SMBs increase operational agility, reduce costs, and speed adoption
of advanced technologies 
● How
To Make Mistakes
● Airline
Cost Benefit Model provided by IATA 
● Southwest
Airlines uses ILOG Software to Dramatically Change the way it
Schedules Crews
● Cutting
the distribution cost 
● Adelphia
Communications search for a corporate performance management
application. 
● ILOG
Optimization Powers Spain’s Metro Bilbao Timetable Planning
System
● With
PROPHIX, SonoSite saves $1850 each time a planning model is created,
and the process of converting foreign currencies to US dollars
is simple. Overall, SonoSite has realized a yearly savings of
$82,200 and is able to spend more time analyzing, instead of
manipulating, data. 
● Amadeus
Selects ILOG JRules to Streamline Leisure Travel Booking Process
● Colonial
Pipeline Co. is an interstate carrier of petroleum products.
Each day, it delivers an average of 96 million gallons of gasoline,
kerosene, home heating oils, diesel fuels and national defense
fuels to shipper terminals in 12 states and the District of Columbia. 
● With
continuous company growth, Blue Star Gas started to realize the
limitations of using Excel for financial and data analyses. Because
their system allowed only one person at a time to enter data,
one of their main objectives was to find a solution that was
more accessible. 
● American
Eagle Outfitters wanted to re-engineer their budgeting and planning
process right down to the individual department manager level.
Consequently they wanted to find a corporate performance management
solution with excellent functionality and ease of use that could
be a catalyst for improvement and meet other needs. 
● FrameSaver
realized that they needed an innovative budgeting software package.
Framesaver implemented PROPHIX. The company realized huge benefits.
Prior to installing PROPHIX, they only had 200 budgeting accounts;
now they have 180,000 potential budgeting categories. Furthermore,
Framesaver is currently saving $950,000 per year in operational
improvements. 
● Thrifty
Car Rental implemented a budgeting
software to
eliminate the long hours spent around budget time. Implementation
was quick and customer support was impressive. 
● Since
its formation in 1985, White Lodging Services Corp. has had a
history of sustainable, profitable expansion. Now, it is a mid-size,
private hotel management company with 87 locations employing
5,000 people. As the company was growing, they were also outgrowing
their budgeting process which involved e-mailing Excel worksheets
back and forth. 
● After
a 4-year period of researching budgeting packages, Great Lakes
implemented a budgeting software and immediately reaped quantitative
and qualitative benefits. The annual budget preparation time
was reduced by two-thirds, and people trusted the system a lot
more, expanding everyone's overall confidence in the budgeting
process. 
● Defining
Corporate Governance Best Practices to Add Firm Value 
● LWCC
decided to implement a
budgeting software.
As a result, their budgeting process was reduced by two and a
half months, which allowed them to spend more time on other projects. 
● Innovation
at Whirlpool Corporation 
● ENVIRON
- Budgeting systems for consulting companies need to be flexible
because consultants are the cost centers. Environ, a technical
consulting company with offices worldwide, was seeking such a
system to replace their current spreadsheet budgeting system. 
● Port
of Tacoma - Port of Tacoma, the fifth largest container port
in North America, needed to improve the time-consuming process
of reconciling their spreadsheet-based budgeting system with
their accounting system. 
● Goteborg
Energi improves its bottom line with IBM 
● Change
Management In Practice: Why Does Change Fail?
Management cost cutting Bad Practises
● Two
Tragedies in Bhopal: A Case Example in the Context of the Global
Economy 
Management costs savings Reports - White Papers
● Benchmarking Cost Savings & Cost Avoidance 
● Metrus-organizational-
effectiveness-self-diagnostic-tool 
● ATM
deposits were supposed to cut costs. So what happened ? 
● Cost-cutting
is common but not critical in outsourcing decisions, major survey
of human resource executives finds
● Downsizing
Trust 
● PLANNING
AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DOWNSIZING PROGRAM 
● Running
a Hospital Like a Factory, in a Good Way 
● 1993
SAVE PROCEEDINGS - APPLICATION TRIZ IN VALUE MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY
IMPROVEMENT
● The
growth triathlon: Growth via course, capability and conviction 
● 20
Top Tips To Writing Effective Surveys
● Managing
overhead costs : Executives often treat cost reduction initiatives
as one-time efforts to compensate for a bad quarter or a delayed
product launch. (source : McKinsey & Company) 
● Beware
The Busy Manager
● The
10 Critical Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Consultant 
● Navigating
Energy Management : A Roadmap for Business 
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