by Sam Klaidman | May 1, 2017 | Customer Value Creation
As a service leader we are all trying to improve how we do our jobs. That is just the way we are programmed. And if part or most of our job involves dealing with customers, we then have an extra challenge – figuring out what they are trying to accomplish. Harvard...
by Sam Klaidman | Feb 20, 2017 | Growth
This Rolls-Royce Press Release, dated Oct. 30, 2012 talks about the start of servitization: Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today celebrated the 50th anniversary of ‘Power-by-the-Hour’, its pioneering approach to engine maintenance...
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 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...
