Case Studies

Because writing good formulas is so critical to the success of an AIM & DRIVE exercise, it will help to go outside the examples of the three teams at Anything Inc. and take a look at two case studies below, involving temporary labor for software development and cable assembly for the battery charger that is part of a handset kit. You should see a fairly common pattern developing.

Case 1

A large financial services company engaged a provider of temporary services to supply them with a team of software programmers for a major IT project. The billing rate of $75 per hour was considered competitive for the level of skill and the region in which the work was being performed. The team broke down the cost of the project and determined ...

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