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23 Feb 2012
Smart Metering: Getting Through the Door
Understanding how the correct software application can enhance both deployment strategies and the customer experience by Craig Edge, Chief Consulting Engineer at Wheatley Associates.
20 Feb 2012
The Service Management and Cognito Roundtable – Part 1
To get underneath the skin of the modern Service Department, Service Management and Cognito co-hosted a roundtable event in late 2011. Following on from last...
17 Feb 2012
Taking the Strain Out of Running a Mobile Workforce
One of the headaches for the IT management in a company with a mobile logistics operation is ensuring that the workforce is kept on the...
12 Feb 2012
The Supply Chain Must Source the Crowd in 2012
Karsten Horn, director international sales of the Inventory and Supply Chain Division at INFORM, discusses why crowd sourcing will shake up business processes in 2012....
07 Feb 2012
Buy In and Big Brother
Wrapping up our focus on staff concerns, we settle our sights firmly on the mentality towards the 'big brother' tracking software.
06 Feb 2012
Does Innovation Start With the Service Desk?
The key to effectively supporting the modern workforce is to re-examine the IT service desk, says Robert Chapman, Unisys's Managing Director for the UKMEA region...
30 Jan 2012
Has Big Brother Lost His Threatening Edge?
Tracking Sofware is the core of an efficient Service Department but has the image of being the bane of a mobile engineer's life. Steve Downton...
26 Jan 2012
The Skills Crunch
It's not just your workforce retiring; it's an entire skillset. So where are your next leaders going to come from?
23 Jan 2012
Training For Promotion Within
Continuing with our People Focus theme for January, Steve Downton looks at the next generation of leader who might be right under your nose.
16 Jan 2012
Pattern Recognition: The Secret of Excavating Useful Nuggets from Piles of Data
Emergent is a software that attacks data on the macro scale, monitoring for fluctuations within datasets and helping organisations to spot correlations with customer behaviour...
12 Jan 2012
Is Retirement Damaging Your Service Workforce?
Steve Downton examines the impact of staff retirement on the service/business operation.
03 Jan 2012
Who Else Wants to be Smart About Getting the Right Staff?
Steve Downton looks at the key skill areas to consider when building up your service staff levels.
20 Dec 2011
MDSL has announced its predictions for 2012
MDSL has been getting into the spirit of Christmas and has prepared its top ten predictions for 2012. Ben Mendoza, CEO of MDSL takes you...
15 Dec 2011
Service Priorities: Quality or Budget?
With cost reductions continuing to dominate the agenda, IT departments need to take a balanced view to cost reduction on the service desk. Mark Lyttle...
12 Dec 2011
Mobile Data Capture - What's Next?
Edward Belgeonne, CEO & Founder of Destiny Wireless Ltd. Looks ahead to see what the future holds in store for the field of mobile data...
08 Dec 2011
Big Brands Failing To Deliver On Customer Service
Andrew Yeoman, managing director of Trimble Fleet Solutions in Europe looks at how service providers can keep their appointment schedules on track.
29 Nov 2011
Service Managers: Can you prove your SLA performance?
Evidence is everything when proving SLA performance in Service Management, as explored by Paul Sparkes, product director of IRIS Field Service Solutions.
24 Nov 2011
Who knows best what the customer needs - the service manager or the customer?
Steve Downton looks at the Service Management team's biggest concern, those demanding customers. What sense can we actually make of how happy they tell us...
14 Nov 2011
Don't Stagnate, Innovate
Maxwell Segal, Innovations Director at GSH, talks about the way innovation occurs within the business environment, and how some of their best service solutions have...
31 Oct 2011
Streetview Becomes Floorview
Today the BBC has reported that Google Streetview is going indoors in London, allowing visitors to explore the inside of shops throughout the capital. Using...
05 Oct 2011
Thinking Laterally - A column from MCUG's Martin Morey
It’s surprising how much we live our lives in compartments and fail to look over the fence. In a recent discussion with an MCUG member...
05 Oct 2011
Building the Link Between Service Parts and the Field Technician
Aly Pinder, a researcher in service management at Aberdeen Group, analyses the European approach to parts in the service chain. Aberdeen’s recent June 2011 benchmark...
03 Oct 2011
The AFSM UK Not-For-Profit Organisation (and what it can do for you)
Steve Downton and Service Management seek to resurrect the not-for-profit discussion group. AFSM UK was a useful not-for-profit organisation allowing service organisations to meet and...
03 Oct 2011
The Future of Fleet Management and Telematics
Service Management cast their eye to the future in an effort to see what is on the horizon for the world of fleet management and...
27 Sep 2011
Parts of the Bigger Picture
We naturally develop a system of coping with problems, which can inhibit our ability to solve issues completely. Life in modern business is hectic. Once...
16 Sep 2011
The Danger of Being Over Ambitious
The Government's announcement of the scrapping of the NHS centralised database of patient records is another example of projects that just got to big and...
16 Sep 2011
TeenTech: Our Future Engineers
TeenTech initiative strives to involve students in engineering pursuits, showing young people possible career paths. TeenTech is an engineering event for school students created by...
06 Sep 2011
The State of Mobile Technologies
Service Management and DA Systems teamed up to carry out a survey of service providers and their relationship with mobile technology. Responses to the survey...
30 Aug 2011
Is Technology Driving a New Philosophy?
Research shows that Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, which accounted for little more than 6% of the total Enterprise Software market in 2008, will...
23 Aug 2011
Getting the Brand Back Together
It's time to stop talking about the importance of brand within service and do something about it. Saul Sherry looks into the tech and outsourcing...
04 Aug 2011
Service Management Countdown to London 2012
The 365-day countdown until the opening of the Olympic Games has begun, and with 6.6 million tickets allocated, it highlights the huge influx of visitors...
04 Aug 2011
Service Management Countdown to London 2012
The 365-day countdown until the opening of the Olympic Games has begun, and with 6.6 million tickets allocated, it highlights the huge influx of visitors...
01 Aug 2011
Ctrack Vehicle Tracking Survey 2011
Vehicle tracking is becoming a critical operational tool for many fleets according to the Ctrack Vehicle Tracking Survey, with more than 70% of those utilising...
26 Jul 2011
The Importance of a Strong Brand and Great People
In the new economy brought about by the recession, caution and value for money are now key criteria in making decisions.
13 Jul 2011
Service Management Expo 2011
Europes only dedicated event for the field service management community. Register free of charge now!
08 Jul 2011
The Bribery Act 2010
Much has already been written about the Bribery Act which comes into force on 1 July 2011, in particular the new criminal offence for commercial...
28 Jun 2011
Changing Business Model to Overcome Major Problems
A number of mechanisms are being considered by companies in their efforts to maintain minimum stocks but optimise performance, and avoid first-time-fix failures caused by...
27 Jun 2011
Optimising the Optimiser
Up and down the UK there are software solutions in place that, while achieving their top-level goals, are underutilised.
14 Jun 2011
Platform Games
The choice of mobile devices available to engineers is almost infinite, but what are the grounds for such a wide selection and what is the...
10 Jun 2011
Increased Performance Driven by the Fusion of Service Parts Management and Logistics
A new report from Aberdeen highlights the direction needed to get on top of parts management and logistics within your service offering.
31 May 2011
Poor Document Filing Costs
Over half (58 per cent) of British office workers have struggled to find important files or documents they thought they had saved on their work...
31 May 2011
Social CRM
The rise of Twitter (and its contemporaries) has given customer rage an all new high-profile voice. Smart businesses will be able to subdue the rage...
17 May 2011
Served by Services
Utilities are something that most people take for granted until they fail. As many MCUG members work in the utility sector they know that they...
17 May 2011
Back End Buy-In
We all talk about training engineers and getting them onboard with new technologies, but what about the back office workers?
03 May 2011
Senior Service - Roger Parsons
Roger Parsons joined Fujifilm as a service engineer in 1994, having previously worked for AM International, NCR Saudi Arabia and Hoshanco among others.
21 Apr 2011
Making IT Happen
GSH Group utilise many disparate service management systems and get them working together to produce great customer service while providing innovative solutions. Saul Sherry went...
18 Apr 2011
Pen vs PDA
18 Apr 2011
Pan-European Metrics Drive Masternaut-Cybit Union
Following the recent huge announcement that big players in the Service Management world Masternaut and Cybit were joining forces, I caught up with Bill Henry,...
04 Apr 2011
Improving Two Way Customer Communications
In today's ?connected? world, there seems to be no end to the different ways people choose to communicate with each other. Communication is no longer...
28 Mar 2011
Supply Chains In Japan Suffer Huge Disruptions
In the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, companies are struggling with numerous supply chain disruptions from lack of raw materials to...

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