by Sam Klaidman | Mar 6, 2017 | Customer Loyalty
Introduction to loyalty metrics The Temkin Group is all about loyalty and loves to publish insightful information that is very important and easy to get your head around. They derive this information from what appears to be an endless stream of consumer surveys, and...
by Sam Klaidman | Feb 6, 2017 | Customer Loyalty
We design our products. We create our organizations. We spend an excessive amount of time and money developing our software. But do we design our services? If we were honest, most of us would answer NO! This is unacceptable because, as Thomas Stewart and Patricia...
by Sam Klaidman | Dec 12, 2016 | Customer Loyalty
In the B2B world, capital equipment aftermarket service is unique. The quality of the service recovery not only impacts the revenue the service business produces; it affects the long-term outlook for product sales. This dual influence causes the CFO and Head of Sales...
by Sam Klaidman | Nov 28, 2016 | Customer Loyalty
Innovation at GE Medical for a Pediatric Hospital Unit About six years ago, nobody said it couldn’t be done. Nobody even knew there was a problem. And so, nobody tried to solve the unknown situation. Then 24-year GE veteran design engineer Doug Dietz got the...
by Sam Klaidman | Nov 14, 2016 | Customer Loyalty
My original post-service survey When I first started sending a post-service survey after a service visit, the surveys were this long: They contained around 25 questions, took “forever” to complete, and yielded so much data that we never had the time or resources to...
by Sam Klaidman | Apr 25, 2016 | Customer Loyalty
How I first learned about optimizing three variables When I first became a Vice President of Manufacturing for a start-up in the 1970s, I faced many challenges getting electronic parts and components. Those were the days of a rapid explosion of electronics...
