Rick Hassman of Pella Corporation shared his organization's business analytics journey during the Loras College Business Analytics Symposium's breakout sessions.
As one of the leading manufacturers of windows and doors, Pella Corporation has had to undergo many transformations to compete with today’s fast-paced market. In keeping up with the competition, Pella struggled to create a comprehensive picture of their customer and actionable analytics for the business.
In 2000, Pella began their journey by replacing their legacy systems with integrated enterprise applications. The transformation enabled Pella to create a 360° view of the customer and capture tremendous amounts of information. Throughout this journey, Pella had to continuously adjust their approach to data as they expanded their applications to their customers. Learn how Pella changed their development methodology to ensure the data they were capturing could add value and transform their business to be a leader in their industry. Individuals who attend this session will learn why data analytic requirements have to be incorporated into application and process planning.
We are pleased to provide our 2018 PRESTO Continuous Improvement partner program for business consultants looking to widen their service offering and expand their market presence.
We are looking for collaboration opportunities with experts who will partner with us brining this highly-innovative (and potentially disruptive) cloud-based performance enhancement solution to market.
In short, PRESTO is a set of “best of breed” Business Intelligence solutions for operational excellence, continuous improvement and performance enhancement reporting based on the core principles of Lean Six Sigma offering the installation of a company-wide sense of urgency, sense of accountability, and sense of purpose at all levels of the company. The product was originally built in a large bank in Europe working with outsourced shared service centres of excellences (in Poland and India) and enriched over time by the vast experiences of our super-talented management team who have now grown in numbers and have since enriched out product together with our clients.
If interested in joining our Kaizen Alliance, contact us at info@toppti.com
We are pleased to provide our 2018 PRESTO Continuous Improvement partner program for business consultants looking to widen their service offering and expand their market presence.
We are looking for collaboration opportunities with experts who will partner with us brining this highly-innovative (and potentially disruptive) cloud-based performance enhancement solution to market.
In short, PRESTO is a set of “best of breed” Business Intelligence solutions for operational excellence, continuous improvement and performance enhancement reporting based on the core principles of Lean Six Sigma offering the installation of a company-wide sense of urgency, sense of accountability, and sense of purpose at all levels of the company. The product was originally built in a large bank in Europe working with outsourced shared service centres of excellences (in Poland and India) and enriched over time by the vast experiences of our super-talented management team who have now grown in numbers and have since enriched out product together with our clients.
If interested in joining our Kaizen Alliance, contact us at info@toppti.com
On October 25, 2012, InfoCision Chief of Staff Steve Brubaker and Vice President - IT Client Services Mike Herston spoke to a graduate level Customer Relationship Management (CRM) class at The Taylor Institute for Direct marketing at The University of Akron. Their talk focused on InfoCision's relationship as a call center and direct marketing provider with our valued clients.
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Strategy - what are the essential elements of a sound, effective MSP marketing plan
Process - how to build a scalable MSP marketing process that runs the gamut of tactics
Targeting - how to identify the “right” prospects and how to target them properly
Positioning - what are the most effective messages to attract new clients
Enablement - how to create content in ways that engage your prospects AND empower your sales team
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Measuring and tracking customer engagement levels in order to target communications and understand resulting impact on engagement
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Not unlike a financial audit measures gaps in financials, we walk businesses through a Sales Audit to measure gaps in your sales process.
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Connecting revenue to the specific marketing channels and campaigns driving it
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Developing campaigns targeted at crucial points in the buyer journey, such as first purchase, repeat customer and win back
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We will help you identify your unique sales needs and gaps in your current sales process, and then we work with you to design a custom sales program to fill in those gaps and meet the everyday needs of your business, creating an easy-to-follow path to increased sales.
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CRM objectives and KPIs definition
Interactions with third party tools
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advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
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approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
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Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Opening the Window to Data: Pella’s Journey - Creating Value with Information
1. Opening the Window to Data
Pella’s Journey - Creating Value with
Information
2. Pella Corporation Overview
• Started In 1925…celebrating Our 90th Anniversary
• Private Ownership, Professional Management & Governance
• Pella Ranks #2 in Both Residential and Commercial Fenestration Markets
• Producer of Premium Fenestration Products
• 10 Manufacturing Facilities
• 7,000 Employees Primarily in North America
• FORTUNE awards
– 100 Best Companies to Work For
– Best Small Corporation in Leadership Development
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3. Distribution Channels
• Branch Sales Network (PDSN’s)
– Residential/light-commercial segments
– Pella dedicated
– 75 sales and services offices
• 3,015 people
• 249 Window Stores
• National Accounts - Brand/Place Driven
Segments
– Lowe’s
– Select Pro Dealers
• International Distribution
• EFCO - Independent Rep Agencies
3
3
4. Portland
Wylie
Gettysburg
Murray
Monett
Pella, Carroll, Shenandoah, Sioux Center
Macomb
Toronto
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Portland
Billings
Casper
Albuquerque
Denver
Salt Lake City
Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
Ok. City
Omaha
Gr. Island
Hutchinson
Topeka
St. Louis
Kansas City
Little Rock
Minneapolis
Green Bay
Atlanta
Baton
Rouge
Mobile
Des Moines
Waterloo
Detroit
Chicago
Seattle
Spokane
Syracuse
Rapid City
Bismarck
Pella Manufacturing
Pella Branches & Service
Centers
Jacksonville
Orlando
Total Pella System
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5. Marketing
Contact
Meet / Connect
Needs Assessment
Solution Selling
Quote
Close
Order
Manufacture
Receive/
Warehouse
Value Add
Deliver
Install
Service
Invoice
Recovery
Integrated IT Strategy
Start with the End in Mind
6. Phases of the Customer Buying
Process
6
Continue to Evolve Your Vision
8. • Ability to schedule specific date and time for in-home
consultation - at homeowner’s convenience
• Real-time visibility of Sales Reps Calendars – 24x7
• Consistent experience from Showroom, Call Center or Web
Foundation – Real Time
Appointments
13. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
Lead to Opportunity
Conversion
52.4%
Opportunity
Close Ratio
47.4%
CRM Metrics
47,130
99,425
Leads Nurtured:
23,950
Opps Nurtured:
22,780
(+8.3 vs. 2010)
(+8.8 vs. 2010)
Original Process Did Not Support Metrics
14. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
CRM Metrics
Wrong Campaigns Assigned
• Options Entered at Corporate Office
• Sales Rep Selected from Dropdown List
15. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
CRM Metrics
• Manually Entered by Sales Rep
• Measured Reps on Conversion Rate
Leads Entered after Job Won
16. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
CRM Metrics
• Had to Schedule Appointments in 2
systems
• Focused on Quote for Customer
Opportunity Information Not Accurate
17. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
CRM Metrics
• Won Job – Focused on Paperwork and
Ordering
• Lost Job – Focused on Next Lead
Only Updated if Pushed by Management
18. Won Jobs
Net Opps
Leads Generated
Centralized Marketing (1,968 Campaigns)
189,913
Lead to Opportunity
Conversion
52.4%
Opportunity
Close Ratio
47.4%
CRM Metrics
47,130
99,425
Leads Nurtured:
23,950
Opps Nurtured:
22,780
(+8.3 vs. 2010)
(+8.8 vs. 2010)
19. Integrated Process
Booking a Quote
Book OrderSign ContractQuote Purchas
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Opportunity Sales Order Fulfillment
Use Data from System Most Important to User
Lead Appointment
Marketing Campaigns
Automatically
Assigned
Quoting System Automatically Updates the CRM System
20. On Time
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On Time Ship
On Time to Customer
21. On Time
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On Time Ship
On Time to Customer
Understand Factors Affecting Metrics
22. Summary
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•Process Must Support Metrics
•Analytics Need to be Designed into
Transactional System
•Metrics Need to Drive Right Actions
People Must Trust the Metrics
Founded in 1925 as Rolscreen Company
Rolscreen® was first product
Started making windows in 1937
Headquartered in Pella, Iowa since 1926
Pella brand honors the City
Population 10,000
Home to Central College
Company renamed Pella Corporation in 1992
Aligns better with our brand
The PDSN – Pella Direct Sales Network – is how we go to market
70 Pella Sales & Service branch locations across North America
Black dots are independent distributors
Red dots are corporate subsidiaries
Each branch has multiple showrooms in their territory for customer convenience – 450 in total
Now, let me take you a bit deeper into our IT strategy.
I joined the company about 4 ½ years ago and I have responsibility for IT as well as Finance, supply chain, logistics, legal, etc.
I have had oversight of IT in previous organizations, but that experience was much different than the situation I entered with Pella.
In my previous life, my experience was about keeping the lights on a set of un-integrated, home grown legacy systems that were cobbled together.
It always seemed like our infrastructure was totally dependent on that one remaining COBAL programmer with a history of heart disease. Needless to say, it wasn’t a strategic organization.
The situation at Pella was much different. The team here had developed a very clear strategy of where they wanted to take the organization’s IT capabilities.
That strategy was summarized in this circle. This is the 360 degree view of the customer. And the IT team was purposeful in enabling capability at every point on this continuum – starting really at the manufacturing end (6 o’clock) but building out the capability throughout the rest of the circle through Oracle’s e-business suite.
The business had an intuitive sense of this growing capability but the capability was co-mingled with a lot of noise, a lack of understanding of the IT backbone that was being built, and a historical view of IT over an 85 year history as an adjunct to our objectives and strategy, not part of our strategy.
Through the work of this team, we have been able to successfully integrate this strategy within the overall corporate strategy, as you saw on the previous slide.
This is powerful – working in IT at Pella means that you are a critical corner-stone of the organization’s strategy. Now our challenge is to keep up with demand – demands from our customers, demands from the marketplace, and demands from an increasingly digital, mobilized world.
We are well positioned – this backbone creates a launching point to be able to meet those needs, and the rest of the presentation will address that.
This Diagram depicts the 7 phases of the customer buying process and the emotional mindset of the customer during each of these phases. As we have implemented and enhanced our applications we have tried to use this diagram to ground us on how we are effecting the experience of the customer.
What can we provide from a systems standpoint that can improve the experience of the customer when buying windows and doors from pella
Ensure customer gets what they need.
The Great Divide in Business.
We explore those who lead, but also those who lag.
A Great divide between those gaining success, and those at risk of falling behind
Analytics is the key driver for those winners on the right side of the great divide.
Equates to approximately 15000 more jobs won. Average job size was ?? $6000 $90,000,000
Must Define Metrics You Want When Defining Process
Use Information Captured as Part of Normal Process
Does Measurement
Map Effects When Components Change
Identify Key Components of Metric
Map Effects When Components Change
One of the first questions you should ask as you look at any company – what is their strategy and how do they plan to be successful.
Here is a card we developed to succinctly summarize our strategy – let me walk you through it.
We are creating a better view every day, with a focus on customer experience, using a diversified business model, leveraging our strategic competitive advantages.
We use this card with our internal and external stakeholders, with our customers and suppliers.
As I mentioned, our team also carries our strategy around – it’s not locked in a drawer, it’s hanging around my neck.
Am I worried that our competition will see this – no, because they can read the card, but they will never, ever be able to create the strategic competitive advantages that we as a business have.
Let me walk you through this card:
Our focus on customer experience starts with a process-driven, knowledgeable team.
We have innovated and high-quality products and services – we have a history of quality and innovation.
We use advanced marketing science to enhance our customer experience – and you will hear a great deal about that over the next day.
We use a diversified business model – we have focused go to market strategies in are targeted segments and channels.
We also have a full line of products and services for residential and commercial markets –this diversification allowed us to be successful in an environment where one of our segments, single family new housing, dropped over 75% from peak to trough.
Finally, we collectively leverage our strategic competitive advantages. The first is our customer-direct business model – we have a dedicated distribution system that we fully partner with to own and nurture our customers.
we have the number 1 brand in our industry – second to none.
And we have integrated IT capabilities (BUILD) that allow us to maintain that 360 degree view of our customer. Oracle has been our partner throughout this journey, and with this partnership, we have built a capability that we believe uniquely positions us in our industry. You will hear about that capability throughout the presentations today.
Finally, our operational excellence, lean culture, and our people-focused culture, all give us a suite of advantages that we believe none of our competitors could ever replicate.
These strategies, working in combination, deliver a strategic competitive advantage. What are strategic competitive advantages:
“An organization’s core capabilities are those activities that, when performed at the highest level, enable the organization to bring its where-to-play and how-to-win choices to life….. Porter noted that powerful sustainable competitive advantage is unlikely to arise from any one capability but rather from a set of capabilities that both fit with one another and actually reinforce one another.” – Lafley and Martin
It is critical that you understand the strategic competitive advantages of any company you are interested in working at – it defines how they will be successful, and how they will win in the marketplace.
Let me discuss why our IT group provides you a unique opportunity.
First, this company has great people. You will not find a place with nicer, more dedicated folks.
Second, we are a unique IT organization. We have the capabilities of a much bigger organization and offer opportunities across the spectrum, but we are small enough so that you are able to get a complete view of our business. We have massive complexity – 8 Octillion buildable combinations, but are small enough that you have all the key leaders managing this business right here in one room.
Third, you will not find many organizations that are on the cutting edge of technology – both in our applications and our infrastructure. We are unique for our industry, and we stand out in most industries. You will see a lot more of that coming up.
Finally, you have the opportunity to gain experience in a truly unique American manufacturing success story. This company was started in a garage, grown by a young entrepreneur, nurtured with succeeding generations of family ownership, and uniquely focused on ensuring the wellbeing of all its stakeholders. These are the types of companies that build communities, support team members, and sustain this great country. As you evaluate places to work over your careers, it is very important to look deeply into the heart and soul of the organization – if you do that here at Pella, you will be very inspired.
We have been around for 89 years and plan to be around for at least another 89!. That gives us all an opportunity to be part of something truly special. This company has survived the great depression, a world war, many oil crises and even the economic policies of Jimmy Carter.
It’s easy for companies to talk about their advantages when things are going well – but the real barometer of a company is how it operates when times get tough. The folks in this room just helped us manage one of the toughest housing market depressions in our history. Through this most recent housing depression, we continued to invest in our IT capabilities, our people and this great company. We are now coming out of this darkness a stronger, leaner, more focused organization. We are poised for tremendous success – and over the past 2 years, we have started to see that success.