Issue in Focus: Product Collaboration 2.0 – Using Social Computing Techniques to Create Corporate Social Networks explores the use of social computing and “Web 2.0” techniques to improve product collaboration. Explains how social computing in PLM allows manufacturers to discover new intellectual property and capture existing know-how for the future, increasing corporate product knowledge. Please enjoy…
Published Research
Service Lifecycle Management for HVAC and Controls
SLM for HVAC and Controls: Competition Heats up for Service Contracts discusses how convergence of the HVAC and Controls service markets has changed the rules of competition, highlighting the need for SLM to compete. Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration…
Service Lifecycle Management for Medical Devices
SLM for Medical Devices: The Strategic Role of Service highlights the strategic role that service plays in the medical devices industry in ensuring customer satisfaction to enable future sales, while maintaining optimal costs to protect profitability. Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge,…
Service Lifecycle Management for IT Equipment
SLM for IT Equipment: Tackling the Profitability Crunch explores tackling the profitability crunch in the IT equipment services market as service becomes more difficult, competition gets stiffer and margins keep shrinking. Click here to read the full report, thank you to our sponsor Astea. NOTE: This paper is from the Tech-Clarity archives, it was originally…
Service Lifecycle Management for Point of Sales
SLM for Point of Sales: Servicing the Service Industry reviews the need for strong support processes when servicing equipment for retail and hospitality companies, both to satisfy the customer and to generate profits. Please enjoy the summary below, or click the report or title to download the full PDF (free of charge, no registration required)….
More Value for Your Service Dollar
More Value for Your Service Dollar: Better Service at Lower Cost Through Service Lifecycle Management reviews a strategic way for companies to ensure that capital equipment is making a profitable return for their business through better service. Please enjoy the free Introduction below, or click the report title above to download the full PDF (free…