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		Case Studies for Business

Learn from real-world examples how iThink can be used to improve your business. Check out our library of business case studies:

Business Process Re-engineering

This case study shows how iThink can be used for process reengineering in a hospital facing rising costs and declining quality of care.

Continuous Improvement

This case study of a large high-tech company shows how iThink can be used to identify major cost savings.

Financial Analysis

The iThink software allows you to represent your business visually and perform financial analyses in a way that spreadsheets can’t. This article illustrates the benefits of the iThink approach through a case study of a real estate development project posed with the question “Should we build now?”

Forecasting

Some seek to forecast the future. Others create it. See how an international pharmaceutical company could use iThink to determine revenue growth for a new drug.

Human Resource Planning

Human resources are critical to any organization. However, key HR issues involve intangibles like culture, motivation, and burnout and are therefore difficult to represent. See how the iThink software can be used to represent both tangibles and intangibles for a Silicon Valley company facing the cultural implications of rapid growth.

Manufacturing

This case study of a Fortune 50 High-Tech Manufacturer illustrates how iThink can be used to represent the basic flow that stretches from raw materials through finished products.

Organizational Development

This case study of a major computer maker shows how iThink can be used for Organizational Development. See how building cross-functional teams can reduce cycle time.

Strategic Planning

This case study of a large industrial products distributor shows how iThink can be used to explore the strategic options for achieving a firm’s growth goals.

Total Quality Management

Existing process-mapping tools used for TQM share a set of limitations that undermine their ability to accelerate and sustain organizational learning. This article discusses how the iThink mapping language overcomes these limitations.

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