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TruGreen Balances Customer Experience Strategy And Tactics
We’ll be featuring lawncare company TruGreen for an upcoming Field Technologies’ cover story, discussing how the company has been on a mission since 2014 to put technologies in place to transform its operations and better serve its customers. While I was talking with Ken DeWitt, CIO of TruGreen, for the article, he spoke about how one of the keys to success with a customer-centric approach is to have a solid strategy that guides...  Continue Reading..
Advice For Becoming A Customer-Centric Field Service Organization
In this user conference interview, Sarah Nicastro from Field Technologies Magazine shares the evolution of customer service to customer experience and how field service organizations are using technology to make this fundamental shift.  Continue Reading..
Fleet Management
Asset Performance Management And Field Service Management: The Best-in-Class’ One-Two Punch
On the enterprise level, Field Service Management (FSM) software continues its march towards a state of relative maturity. Mobile penetration is near 100%, making the barrier-to-entry for powerful, lightweight tools lower than ever. Technology, of course, is never finished, so the question becomes: What’s the next frontier for service management? Routing and order is solidifying; service excellence is becoming the norm, so now is the time...  Continue Reading..
Service Mobile Digital Mission
The Service Mobile Digital Mission: Beyond Work Orders
We rely on the “work order” to complete the call transaction and capture service data. Work orders are important and recognized as the nucleus of field service operations. Leaders today, however, have other business drivers ranging from selling services to technician recruiting and retention on their mind as they learn to think beyond the work order. The Mobile Digital Mission (MDM) is the business process and technology architecture...  Continue Reading..
EMM Features
7 Must-Have EMM Features To Look For
It’s time for businesses that already use an EMM (enterprise mobility management) or MDM (mobile device management) solution to circle back and conduct an assessment. And it’s long overdue for many non-users to evaluate and introduce EMM for the first time.  Continue Reading..
Compelling Reasons To Ignore Your Field Service Competitors
In a space like field service that is becoming increasingly competitive, it may seem counterintuitive for me to suggest that you start ignoring what your competition is doing — but hear me out. As field service organizations struggle more and more to differentiate themselves, I think it becomes increasingly important to tune out what other companies in your industry are doing. Here are two big reasons why.  Continue Reading..
Orkin Embraces The Field Service Evolution
Orkin revamps processes and updates technology to better meet customer expectations, and in doing so saves between $60,000 and $90,000 per month in fleet costs alone.  Continue Reading..
Digital Transformation Made Real
Focus on these three things to make digital transformation possible.  Continue Reading..
An Often-Overlooked Tool To Improve The Field Service Customer Experience
In your quest to master the customer experience, consider this technology.  Continue Reading..
Cloud-Based Field Service Software Improves Efficiency And Inventory Management
The elimination of paper speeds invoicing from one week to essentially same day.  Continue Reading..

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