7 Ways to Amp Up Your Service Culture and Drive Revenue
1. 7 Service-as-a-Business
Key to Service Success
Establish service as a profit center
Good service doesn’t mean free
service
Service factory – defined and
standardized
Track the profitability of each of
their services by customer
Service intelligence
7. 1 Sell Proactively
Service as Sales function
Leverage being trusted advisor
Techs are the best sales guys
Initiate contact throughout
Offer standard service products
Shift hiring strategy
Incentivize selling
8. Sell Proactively
Up-sell and cross-sell
Improve renewal rates
Annual value of off-contract
service revenue
Transform your service
organization into a profit
center
Metric & Outcome
9. 2 Embrace Technology Advancements
Business & Life Interconnected
Happy techs are productive techs
Accept younger workforce
Adopt smart phones
Less up-front investment
Cool-factor with zen-like experience
Brand image
Delight customers
Better customer service
10. Technology Delights Customers
Exact appointment times
Customer tolerance for 4-8 hour
windows is evaporating
A rapid response
Meet or exceed SLA times
First visit fix
Fast resolution and no return visit
required
Knowledgeable field technician
Right person with the right skills
and right parts
Fast and accurate billing
Audit trail, time stamp arrivals/
departures, signature approvals
11. 3 Collaborate in the Field
Crowd-sourced Knowledge
- Adopt social means to connect
and work
- Streamline key processes
- Improve tasks
- Get help in the field
- No need to know it all
- Hit the road running
- Education
- Module on social collaboration
- On the job training
12. Metric & Outcome
Improves bottom-line
Faster reaction times
Increase first time fix rates
Reduce repair time
Increase jobs/tech/day
13. 4 Communicate inside and out
Reports & Dashboards
Internal
Transparency, less politics
Task ownership
Awareness of service activities
Handle escalations
External
Customer is never surprised
Partner visibility
Anytime, everywhere
14. Metric & Outcome
Improves bottom-line
Faster time to respond
Improve resolution time
Increase customer
retention
Improve tasks completed
per tech
15. 5 Motivate through appreciation
Social Recognition
Publicize goals
Real-time recognition
Customer Feedback
Customer Evaluation
Categorize service
technicians
16. Metric & Outcome
Impacts Top-Line
More jobs per tech
Improved service employee
retention
Happy techs translate to
happy customers
17. 6 Work with cross-functional teams
Move in the same direction
Break delineation between
Engineering, Sales, Services,
Marketing, HR
Come together
Evaluate historical processes
Impact of various segments
of customer interaction
Assign representatives
Tag-team, Buddy
system, Follow-me around
18. Metric & Outcome
Improve Top-Line
Increase service volume
High serviceability index
Protect installed base
Improve resolution time
Increase tasks completed
per tech
19. 7 Service-as-a-Business
Key to Service Success
Establish service as a profit center
Good service doesn’t mean free
service
Service factory – defined and
standardized
Track the profitability of each of
their services by customer
Service intelligence
21. 7 Ways to Amp Up Your Service Culture
5 Motivate through appreciation
4 Communicate inside and out
3 Collaborate in the field
2 Embrace technology advancements
1 Sell proactively
7 Service-as-a-business
6 Work with cross-functional teams
25. Field Service Mobile Solution
ServiceMax Mobile
on-demand, anytime, anywhere
Smart
Phones
iPadLaptops
26. Empower your field tech with the
knowledge of your entire organization
Document and leverage tribal
knowledge
Increase first time fix rates via
collaboration
Keep the home office up-to-date with
what’s going on in the field
Field Service Social Solution
ServicePulse | Ticker | ProductPulse
It’s not about “being social”, it’s about delighting your customers
27. Field Service Cloud Solution
ServiceMax is built on Force.com
Extends Service Cloud
Sales
Cloud
Marketing
Cloud
Service Cloud
powered by
28. ServiceMax Customer ROI
We surveyed our customers to assess the true impact of ServiceMax
31%
14%
11%
16%
Productivity Service
revenue
First time fix
rates
Customer
Satisfaction
scores
-16% -16%
Field
service
costs
Average
time
to repair
29. Try it for free!
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Imagine Flawless Field Service. Imagine eliminating inefficiencies, driving growth, and solving customer issues sometimes before they even know they have a problem At ServiceMax our mission is to help our customers deliver the best field service possible to their customers. We do this by helping customers perfect their service delivery process, drive revenue growth, and not just satisfy customers, but delight them.
Our contribution to this transformation is the world’s only complete cloud-based field service.At the core is our Installed Base and Entitlements capabilities, where you are able to track your customer’s equipment at the detailed component level. Where you can design and implement any time of contract you can dream up to appropriately service your customer.With scheduling – managing work orders, dispatching service engineers through our dispatch console, or our optimization engine Optimax.Parts, parts parts – where are the parts – we track them wherever you stash ‘em – vans, depots, etc. And now our newest module Spare Parts and Reverse Logistics (SP&RL ). More on that shortly.ServicePulse to leverage the power of Chatter. To collaborate with the best and brightest within your company, wherever they are. The Ticker to track the key customers or projects, and ProductPulse to actually interact directly with the equipment in the field without human interaction.Finally – we’re taking this capability and working feverishly to develop the absolute best experience on the most compelling mobile devices today.
ServiceMax is deployed to over 200 customers of all sizes across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. These are just a few examples of our customers.
Now let’s talk in more detail about some of the key aspects of ServiceMax that make us different from legacy service solutions. Our cutting edge Mobile solution ensures critical service information and customer data is at your fingertips, no matter where or when. With ServiceMax Mobile, your field techs, service managers and executives can access the ServiceMax Suite via a choice of mobile devices, such as an iPad, smartphone, or laptop, Calendar view of work orders and tasksGPS route planning and step-by-step driving directionsInvoicing with on-the-spot signature captureReal-time problem resolution – ServicePulse, FaceTime
For us in the field service space, these technologies are not just about being “social”. This is not like “Facebook for Work” where you’re letting your colleagues know where you went for lunch. Rather, our social collaboration solution ServicePulse, which is built on the power of Chatter from Salesforce.com, is entirely about increasing real-time knowledge and collaboration to delight customers. When your entire organization has access to the expertise and tribal knowledge of the entire organization, you can solve customer issues at lightening speed. Your office-based team can also stay 100% up to date and on the pulse of what’s going on in the service operations.1. Studies show that the most successful social businesses have strong engagement from the CEO and other executives.2. Eliminate “too much noise.” Groups let you just see what’s relevant to you.3. Every technology has early adopters that influence the rest of the ecosystem. Find your influencers and make them champions that will fuel adoption and use-cases.4. Common question: How will ServicePulse help me do my job better? The answer: Define use-cases for ServicePulse that involve existing processes to necessitate adoption and demonstrate the value5. Make it a part of your training program so the importance of ServicePulse is reinforced.6. Make sure everyone is aligned on the value and vision of ServicePulse.
ServiceMax is built on the power of the Force.com cloud platform from Salesforce.com. We are tightly integrated to the Service Cloud offering from Salesforce and we extend Service Cloud to field service, giving you a complete Service Life Cycle Solution in one technology solution.