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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Digital Transformation, Service, Strategy
So you are servitizing your business… now what?
servitization of the field service industry

The field service management landscape is changing and it’s powered by servitization. Enterprise organizations across multiple industries are embracing servitization…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Digital Transformation, Oil & Gas, Research, Service, Strategy
The servitization of the oil and gas service industry
The servitization of the oil and gas service industry

Oil and gas organizations are embracing servitization and leveraging technology to increase profit margins and core service offerings. In general,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Automotive, Business Technology, Events, Strategy
Q&A with Stefan Issing: How automotive companies are managing IoT
Q&A with Stefan Issing: How automotive companies are managing IoT

Stefan Issing, Global Automotive Industry Director at IFS, answers questions from Automotive Industry Magazine on “ERP systems in IoT environments”…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Manufacturing, Research, Strategy
Data scientists: the who, why and how
Data scientists: the who, why and how

Not enough is currently being done to create and nurture the talents required to create a pool of data scientists….

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Technology, Mobility, Service, Strategy
Unstick your technician: 3 easy steps to simplify your technician’s life so they’re more productive
mobile applications for field service management

A mobile application that’s configured to your business needs may be exactly what your field technicians need so that they’re…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Finance, Strategy
Labor valuation using the “Dark Side of the Moon”
Labor valuation using the “Dark Side of the Moon”

Squaring the circle between valuing labor and adding value to labor is a key to unlocking pent-up potential in business…

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Asset Intensive, Business Technology, Oil & Gas, Strategy
Are you ready for APM?
offshore maintenance

What is it really about? Getting on the bandwagon or actually optimizing operational performance? Asset performance management (APM) has become…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Digital Transformation, Events, Finance, Research, Strategy
Fire up your digital transformation and increase profitability 26% using a connected strategy
Fire up your digital transformation and increase profitability 26% using a connected strategy

At the 2017 IDC Directions event in Boston, the full potential for businesses who adopt (and have adopted) digital transformation…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Service, Strategy
Don’t mute your customer
field service technicians

How field service technicians can increase customer satisfaction by providing customers with a voice. Don’t be the field engineer who…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, IFS Applications, Strategy
CSR and the art of bicycle maintenance
Corporate Social Responsibility

Unearthing the essence of true value one bike at a time. Corporate value is a commodity based on an ability…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Events, Research, Retail, Strategy
Key takeaways from NRF 2017: Transparency, the unique customer experience and the merging of the physical and digital world
Key takeaways from the NRF Big Show 2017

Returning home from my third NRF Big Show 2017, I feel a sense of urgency for continued evolution (rather than…

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Agility, Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Finance, Research, Strategy
2017: Sustainable strategies or volatile velocity — which will it be?
2017: Sustainable strategies or volatile velocity — which will it be?

Remember ‘business as usual’? For many, it seems lifetimes ago. 2016 was one of the most volatile socio-political years in…

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