Service Workforce Maturity Model

A Tool for Forward-Looking Service Leaders

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Today’s customers expect service to be completed correctly the first time. Meanwhile, service requirements are constantly growing more complex.

To navigate these changes, your service workforce needs access to tools and solutions that connect them to the people, processes, and products they work with. For your workforce to grow and mature, your technology investment should too. 

Transforming workforce productivity requires making incremental changes with technology and the way your workforce uses it. This model is broken into four unique maturity stages: Digitize, Connect, Optimize, and Advance.

Within each stage, you’ll learn how maturity level impacts processes, access to information, collaboration, and customer engagement. 

When tracking progress across these stages, service leaders should look at metrics and KPIs that are relevant to their operations, such as first-time fix rate (FTFR), workforce utilization, and overall service quality. Whether your organization is at the Digitize stage or the Advance stage, there’s always room for progress—and identifying where you are today is the first step. Continue reading to learn where your service workforce is now, where they're headed, and identify what they need to get there.

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Stage One: 

Digitize


 

Stage two: 

Connect

Stage three: 

Optimize

Stage four: 

Advance

Process: 

Digitizing improves processes by minimizing time spent on manual data entry for invoicing or transcribing work order debriefs, enabling more accurate tracking and accountability, and minimizing the risk of lost paper documents and information. From there, service organizations can more easily standardize this information.

Stage One: 

Digitize


 

At this first stage of workforce maturity, service organizations should focus on digitizing operations, eliminating manual or paper-based processes, and shifting away from a “reactive” service approach. On the right, click to learn how the maturity stage of your workforce impacts key areas of doing business.

Process: 

Through secure connectivity, service organizations at this stage are leveraging advanced automated processes and remotely monitoring machine health. Certain service actions or decisions can be made without manual intervention, such as optimizing schedules or planning preventive maintenance. When human intervention is required, systems can provide notifications to the right team members to make the right decisions.

Stage two: 

Connect


 

In the Connect stage, service leaders should prioritize increasing asset connectivity, giving technicians the right tools to deliver proactive service, keeping stakeholders informed, and enabling a predictive service approach. FTFR is a particularly important success metric to focus on at this stage.

Process: 

Following the transition phase from Digital to Connect, service technicians are working with standardized processes, checklists, and workflows when they go on-site. Data verification ensures these are completed to standard at every service visit. Automated workflows guide technicians, dispatchers, and remote service engineers through the right steps and remove time-consuming administrative work.

Stage three: 

Optimize


 

In stage Three, it's all about optimizing how people, parts, and information work better together to collaborate and meet customer commitments.

Process: 

Access to commercial and entitlement information enables the service organization to collaborate closely with service sales and proactively advise customers on upsell and cross-sell opportunities. Improved workforce efficiency gives leadership deeper insights into other areas of the business or products in the field.

Stage four: 

Advance


 

In the Advance stage, customers see service organizations as trusted advisors—but there are still opportunities for continued growth. At this stage, service leaders should focus on advancing commercial maturity, extending enterprise collaboration, and enabling prescriptive service.

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Remember, every step of the maturity model builds on the last to bring value to your service organization. As you progress, you’ll see changes to your KPIs and your workforce engagement.

Find the Right Technology Partner to Collaborate on Your Maturity Model

Improving service quality and productivity is made possible by focusing on opportunities that are unique to your service organization and workforce. Once you’ve identified goals based on your maturity level, the right technology partner can help you find transformative technologies that match your unique use cases. Read our buyer's guide to explore solutions for the connected service workforce, key features and capabilities, and more to help you select the right technology partner on your service transformation journey.

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