Overview

Overview

Overview

Managing supply chain costs in hospitals is a fragmented process, leading to inefficiencies, misalignment, and financial waste.

Stakeholders—administrators, doctors, and procurement teams—struggled to align priorities due to complex, disconnected data.

Stakeholders, detached from software nuances, grappled with unrealistically ambitious timelines and clashed with real user pain points.

The challenge at hand was monumental—harmonizing stakeholders' wishes with genuine user needs and unraveling the cognitive load fog for new users.

Stakeholders, detached from software nuances, grappled with unrealistically ambitious timelines and clashed with real user pain points.


The challenge at hand was monumental—harmonizing stakeholders' wishes with genuine user needs and unraveling the cognitive load fog for new users.

My contribution

Stakeholder interviews

Workshops

Personas

User interviews

User journey mapping

Executive presentations

Mockups

Prototypes

Final specs

The team

Service Delivery Manager

Solution Architect

Data Analyst

SME x 4

Year

2022

The Challenge

  • Hospitals lose millions due to inefficient supply chain decisions.


  • Decision-making is slow due to manual reporting and data misalignment.


  • Stakeholders lack clear, actionable insights to drive cost-saving initiatives.

💡 What If:

Hospitals could make informed decisions instantly, without relying on manual reporting or disconnected data sources?

The Approach: A Structured Path to Clarity

To transform complex workflows into seamless, data-driven decision-making, we followed a structured, impact-driven process.

1. Mapping the Chaos
  • 📌 Understanding the Problem: We conducted extensive stakeholder interviews to uncover inefficiencies in supply chain decision-making. The goal was to identify bottlenecks and areas where automation could provide the most impact.


  • 🎯 Key Finding: Reports were scattered across multiple systems, requiring 4+ hours per day to consolidate, leading to delays in decision-making and costly miscalculations.

2. Defining the MVP Scope
  • 📌 Focusing on Impact Over Features: Instead of solving everything at once, we narrowed our scope to the most critical workflows, ensuring rapid deployment and measurable impact.


  • Key Priorities:

    • Automated Cost Analysis: Identifying inefficiencies and providing instant financial insights.

    • Real-Time Dashboards: Presenting supply chain data in an intuitive, actionable format.

    • Collaborative Decision Workflows: Enabling seamless communication between administrators, doctors, and procurement teams.


  • 👉 Outcome: A lean, high-impact MVP designed for immediate usability and measurable ROI.

3. Building Automated Data-Driven Insights
  • 📌 The Importance of Stakeholder Feedback: Before full-scale implementation, we ran extensive usability tests with hospital administrators and procurement specialists. The goal was to ensure ease of use and adoption


  • What we learned:

    • Simplicity matters: Decision-makers need clear, digestible insights, not complex charts.

    • Customization is key: Different stakeholders require different levels of data granularity.

    • Trust in automation: Users were skeptical of AI-driven analytics, so we implemented explainable data models to increase confidence.


  • ✨ Outcome: A product that was trusted, easy to use, and instantly valuable.

The Outcome: Real Business Impact
🚀 Transformative Impact in Just 3 Months
  • ✅ 50% Faster Decision-Making: Manual reporting time reduced from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

  • ✅ Millions in Projected Cost Savings: Automated detection of inefficiencies uncovered hidden financial opportunities

  • ✅ Higher Adoption & Usability: 90% of stakeholders preferred the new system over traditional reporting methods.


  • 💡 Key Takeaway:

Data should empower—not overwhelm—decision-makers. By focusing on clarity, automation, and real-time insights, we created a system that delivered immediate business value.

Data should empower—not overwhelm—decision-makers. By focusing on clarity, automation, and real-time insights, we created a system that delivered immediate business value.

Data should empower—not overwhelm—decision-makers. By focusing on clarity, automation, and real-time insights, we created a system that delivered immediate business value.

Key Learnings & What’s Next

📌 Strategic MVP scoping is critical—focus on high-impact features first.

📌 Automation transforms decision-making when applied to the right data.

📌 Cross-functional collaboration ensures usability across different teams.

📢 Scaling Beyond Healthcare

This structured, data-driven approach can be applied across industries—real estate, finance, logistics, and beyond—to optimize workflows, improve insights, and drive better decisions.

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Let's be in touch!

Feel free to contact me if having any questions. I'm available for new opportunities or just for chatting.

Let's be in touch!

Feel free to contact me if having any questions. I'm available for new opportunities or just for chatting.

Let's be in touch!

Feel free to contact me if having any questions. I'm available for new opportunities or just for chatting.