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Using iThink to Create, Refine, and Validate Business Plans

Imagine you run a boutique consulting firm and want to build it into a larger business. Increasing profits and expanding the firm requires billing more hours. There are two ways to increase billable hours: sell larger projects that take more time to complete or sell larger project teams. How do you determine which strategy will be most effective? Learn how Oliver Grasl at transentis consulting used iThink to test both growth strategies.

How Many Doctors Does the Netherlands Need? Ask iThink

In the Netherlands, higher education, including medical education, is public and subsidized by the government. With only 8 medical schools in the country, the Dutch government carefully restricts the number of medical students enrolled in each of 36 specialty areas. So how do they know how many doctors the country will need? Learn how iThink helped solve an estimation problem and gain insight to the medical education system.

Dow Chemical Uses iThink to Find Supply Chain Improvements

Charged to help global business innovate and improve the supply chain, Martin Fernandes, Supply Chain Technology Consultant at Dow Chemical, uses iThink models to help discover supply chain improvements and address issues faced in Six Sigma recruitment, business strategy, accounts receivable and payable, and health and safety.

Pharma Company Turns to Cognitus and iThink to Plan a High-Value Future

When Jurgen Schmidt became Strategy Planning Director of VetCo, a $2 billion per annum veterinary pharmaceutical company, he quickly assessed its current operations and the research and development efforts that would fuel its future.

iThink Model Helps DPS Telecom Double its Annual Revenue

The management team at DPS Telecom had a name for their revenue pattern - The Blue Crush. Erratic monthly sales resulted in a revenue flow that resembled a tidal wave. Read how iThink helped the team see the bigger picture.

The Whole Systems Partnership Models Long-term Care Efficacy

Many organizations turn to Systems Thinking to explore problems within a system. Leicestershire County in the UK turned to Systems Thinking to explore the systematic reasons for their success.

Minimizing Risk with Systems Thinking

Egbert Roos, Principal of Buroos, routinely applies Systems Thinking in client engagements. Learn how the City of Amsterdam's youth care programs and a small jewelry design business have benefitted from iThink and the surprising insights it revealed.

Business Process Reengineering

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.

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