Challenged to Improve Performance and Reduce Cost?
MIPS Reduction: Performance, Workload and Capacity Management
IDENTIFY & ASSESS OPPORTUNITIES
Apply our vast knowledge base: “we always see issues with these subsystems”
What seems outside the norms considering our experience?
Assign Risk/Reward Rating: complexity; component consumer base
Estimate benefit: is the consumer an island unto itself? multiple components or iterative uses per day
Measure in client’s terms: (per hour, 24 hours, month, MIPS v MSUs)
PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION
Who implements? if outsourcer, detailed instructions and backout required; IVP plans
Outage requirements (IPL, Subsystem, None)
Testing requirements
Baseline to avoid low-consumption periods
Implement: active participation regardless of performing organization
CLOSED LOOP FEEDBACK
Recognize Success: estimates versus actual; report daily/ monthly MIPS/MSU elimination; tie to financial saves
Annotate daily/monthly performance reporting
Close the loop: did execution expose other bottlenecks not visible previously? Any new opportunities exposed?
Restart the process
Question Everything
Eliminate the Bottlenecks
