Case Studies

 

Akron Children's Hospital

Resource Planning:  How One CIO is Beating the Backlog

At Akron, Ohio-based Akron Children’s Hospital, new business priorities and limited resources are a constant challenge to the IT project queue.  For Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jeff Hale, the toughest challenge is balancing demand for IS projects with the organization’s ability to deliver. 

What's a CIO to do?  In the Spring of 2006, the IS Management Team at Akron Children’s decided to start at the beginning - by looking at their resources. (Request Entire Case Study)

University of Alabama Health System

Aligning IT Strategy with Business Success

In 2002, the University of Alabama Health System (UABHS) was going through an organization-wide clinical system implementation and knew that successfully managing the project across the enterprise would be a key to implementation success.  The Project Network was first used in combination with MS Project to project manage this implementation.  As a result of the successful use of The Project Network to manage this key implementation, the UAB Hospital IT Department determined that The Project Network, used to its full capabilities, could improve their organization’s overall project management process. (Request Entire Case Study)

Texas Children’s Hospital

Part I: Organizational Preparation for Automated Resource Planning

In 2004, Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) was utilizing a manual process to schedule resources and found it increasingly difficult to answer basic customer questions such as, “When will you begin work on my project?”  “When will it be done?” and “What resources will you assign to my project?” IS management was struggling to stay on top of the current and projected allocation of resources. 

TCH determined that what they needed was an automated solution that would allow them to better understand how to best apply resources to projects.  TCH IS employees were already utilizing i.s. edge, inc.’s project administration tool, The Project Network, to administer and plan projects so it seemed a natural extension to expand the capabilities of The Project Network to automate resource planning. (Request Entire Case Study)