2009
2009 Winner Profile
CitationShares
- Project Description: CitationShares, a private jet company, developed a Schedule Optimization System that monitors operational performance and finds opportunities to improve the schedule for its jets and crews. The system can find the minimum-cost set of aircraft trips and crew assignments that satisfies all customer requirements, crew duty constraints and a wide variety of other constraints covering a time horizon of up to three days. The company reports that the new system has improved scheduling and reduced direct operating costs by over 15 percent.
- Project type: Databases, Process Improvement
- Business Functions: Operations
- Business Goal: Financial
- CIO: $model.cio100.cioFirstName Hall, SVP & CIO
- CEO: Steven O'Neill, CEO
- Headquarters: Greenwich, Conn.
- Industry: Transportation
- Revenue (2008): $400 million
- Website: www.cessna.com
