Challenged to Improve Performance and Reduce Cost?

MIPS Reduction: Performance, Workload and Capacity Management

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)

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

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

See how we uncovered and produced over 50 recommendations in eight weeks, which were applied to a number of jobs and subsystems.