Queue eliminated
Cycle time falls materially when organizations stop feeding every item through the same serial queue. These cases use straight-through lanes, redesigned intake, coordinated routing, or exception-based work to remove waiting rather than merely accelerate one task.
Inclusion criteria
Includes cases tagged queue elimination, straight-through processing, intake redesign, or coordination compression. The change must remove or bypass a material queue or handoff.
30 cases · bundle 1.0.0 · reviewed 2026-08-23
01
Johns Hopkins Children's Center / Johns Hopkins Medicine
Editorial leadClosing the diabetic eye-screening care gap requires persuading youth to attend a separate specialist appointment. Instead, the diagnostic exam itself is brought into the routine diabetes visit and read autonomously by AI in under a minute.
02
C.H. Robinson
Editorial leadThat people must key routine freight orders and dock appointments, taking hours, before a carrier can be matched.
03
Meta (Facebook)
Editorial leadThat every code change must run every test that transitively depends on modified files in order to catch regressions before trunk. Meta's predictive model estimates each test's likelihood of catching a regression for a specific change, so a much smaller learned subset can be run without loss of regression signal.
04
Greater Houston primary stroke centers
Editorial leadLarge-vessel occlusion at a non-thrombectomy primary stroke center has to be recognized and the receiving team activated through sequential imaging review and conventional communication before transfer can start.
05
AIA Group
Editorial leadMedical claims require a human to read every document before payment. AIA instead built a three-tier GenAI stack (OCR intake, report summarization, auto-adjudication plus FWA anomaly detection) so most claims complete without human touch.
06
Deutsche Bahn
AI can flag deviations from train images; technicians validate findings and trigger work before manual repair.
07
Ocado Group / Ocado Retail
Robotic arms can pick more grocery items on-grid while people handle exceptions and fulfillment operations.
08
Boston Public Schools
Routes can be optimized as one district system instead of built school by school and then combined.
Current · updated
1 independent, 1 peer reviewed; publication outcomes are verified.
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Georgia State University
Enrollment support does not require counselors to initiate and answer every routine student interaction; a task-aware assistant can provide personalized outreach while routing exceptions to staff.
Current · updated
1 independent, 1 peer reviewed, 2 primary; publication outcomes are verified and reported.
Canonical case →10
JPMorgan Chase
Defined attributes can be extracted across annual volume while lawyers handle interpretation exceptions.
11
Justice Connect
People seeking legal help should describe their problem, not diagnose its legal category before they can ask for help.
12
City of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
That urban intersections should follow fixed timing plans optimized offline for predictable rush periods.
Current · updated
1 independent, 1 peer reviewed; publication outcomes are verified.
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Microsoft Azure
A cross-service Azure incident is recognized when a human on-call, seeing only a partial service view, pieces together cascading alerts and declares the incident.
14
Novel breakages need not wait for a comprehensive post-submit test cycle.
15
Meta (Facebook)
Routine static-analysis bugs can receive machine-proposed patches behind compilation and analyzer-clean gates.
16
Rio Tinto
A central system can drive mine trucks on fixed routes while people supervise and manage exceptions remotely.
Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
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Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
1 primary; publication outcomes are reported.
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MIT randomized professional-writing study
The redesign is a shorter drafting loop with human revision and accountability, not autonomous publication.
Current · updated
1 independent, 1 peer reviewed; publication outcomes are verified.
Canonical case →18
New York City Fire Department
Fire companies can prioritize inspections by predicted risk instead of fixed cycles and local knowledge.
Current · updated
2 independent, 1 primary; publication outcomes are verified and reported.
Canonical case →19
Zurich Commercial Insurance (Zurich Insurance Group)
AI can digitize and triage submissions before underwriters make the underwriting decision.
20
BMW Plant Regensburg
Detection, classification and physical rework can form one controlled loop.
21
Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration / Benefits
Fraud-risk triage can cause institutional harm without fair features, recovery rules, or challenge rights.
22
UPS
That each driver or dispatcher must determine the daily stop sequence from experience and static route plans.
23
Montgomery County, Maryland
A multilingual assistant can answer first-line 311 questions while urgent or unresolved needs route to people.
Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
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Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
1 independent; publication outcomes are verified.
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Large US health system / Optum algorithm
A predictable proxy can still allocate scarce care unjustly.
Current · updated
1 independent, 1 peer reviewed; publication outcomes are verified.
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State Bank of India
A bounded low-value tier can move to touchless processing while assurance shifts to sampling.
26
Amazon
Hinge: multiple specialized robots can coordinate inventory presentation, package handling, and cart movement while employees shift toward quality, flow, maintenance, and exception work.
27
BHP
That a person must drive each haul truck through repetitive mine cycles.
28
Creditas
First-line credit analysis and signature validation do not require human review on every home-equity file.
29
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
That potentially fraudulent checks must be found through slower post-payment reviews rather than prioritized in near real time.
30
HCA Healthcare
Sepsis surveillance should follow patient data continuously rather than wait for nursing rounds or shift changes.
Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
Watch · updated
Watch status: verify the cited source and deployment condition before reusing this case.
3 primary; publication outcomes are reported.
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