by Sam Klaidman | Jun 5, 2018 | Growth
Congratulations on Joining the Ranks of Service Leadership A significant step is getting promoted from Regional or National Field Service Manager to Director or Vice President of Field (or Customer) Service. Suppose you are fortunate to have recently made this...
by Sam Klaidman | Jul 10, 2017 | Growth
A Sales, Manufacturing, and Service meeting about a new customer Imagine you head up a large capital equipment manufacturing business’s aftermarket service business. One day you and the head of manufacturing received a meeting invitation from one of the...
by Sam Klaidman | Dec 27, 2016 | Growth
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the results of my asking our Field Service engineers, “What happens if the products never fail?” Yesterday, I read about a new wristwatch that promises no service for 50 years. The manufacturer is so confident in their claim that...
by Sam Klaidman | Dec 26, 2016 | Growth
The background about how I started to think about what happens when the equipment never fails In the early 1990s, I became the Vice President of Service for Oxford Instruments in the Western Hemisphere. After taking care of some early logistics challenges, like where...
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...
