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Case studies

What actually changed after they switched

Healthcare, banking, technology manufacturing, beverages and insurance. Different industries, different scale, the same problem with HR service delivery. Every figure on these pages comes from the customer.

96%

First contact fix rate at tier 1

Lenovo, against a 92% target, across an average of 13,000 cases a month handled by 60 staff in four geographic service centers.

54%

Fall in calls into HR

Tower Health, from 40,606 calls in FY2019 to 18,736 in FY2022, after adding an employee portal to the case management system already in place.

6 weeks

To implement, at a mutual insurer

Quoted at 8 to 10 weeks. A previous system from another vendor was quoted at 14 weeks and took over a year.

Published results

Six customers, six numbers they published themselves

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Across the customer base

Numbers customers have published

47%

Of employee inquiries resolved at tier 0 through First Midwest's MyHR portal and its 450 knowledge articles.

First Midwest Bank

500 cases a day

Absorbed by Northside Hospital through open enrollment, without the backlog of previous years.

Northside Hospital

2,661 cases

Employee relations casework documented since go live at a Swire Coca-Cola, then used to win a headcount increase.

Swire Coca-Cola

4 to 5 days to under a day

Case resolution time at a leading mutual insurer after go live.

Mutual insurer

It was supposed to take 14 weeks and it took over a year. So when we heard that this was going to take 8 to 10 weeks, in my mind that was already, all right, it will probably take 6 to 8 months. But it actually took around 6 weeks to implement Dovetail. Overall, Dovetail was one of the easiest system implementations I've been a part of.

Contractor Resource Center ManagerLeading mutual insurance company

~6 weeks

actual implementation time

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28/100

Maturity score, banded Reactive

$1.6M

HR time recoverable a year

13.6 FTE

Equivalent capacity

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