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Category: Innovation
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ProntoForms and The 8 Essentials of Innovation
If times of crisis have a positive impact on businesses it is the resulting boon of inventive thinking. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. How so? As our governments, businesses, and social systems are altered, the dynamics of these disruption are, as a recent McKinsey report suggests: “…like adrenaline for innovation, causing barriers that once…
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5 ways medical device manufacturers can leverage custom apps to meet COVID-19 crisis
Global pandemics create a surge of new patients in healthcare facilities—clinics and hospitals— that completely overwhelm its staff and operations. We’re now witnessing this crisis with COVID-19 in Europe and it’s an emergency now looming in America. The most vulnerable of COVID-19 patients require access to medical ventilators in order to stay alive. The rapid…
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How to maximize efficiency for your medical quality control procedures
Quality control is a leading concern with COVID-19 spreading across the world. The impact is especially felt in the life sciences sector where health care workers and field technicians are being stretched to their limits. How can rigorous quality control procedures possibly be maintained under these circumstances? For medical device manufacturers — particularly those responsible…
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Put construction safety software in the hands of your technicians
Construction safety is incredibly important. The 2016 Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) found one in five workplace fatalities occurred in the construction industry. That rate hasn’t changed much. More than two years later, EHS Today reported out of 4,779 worker fatalities in 2018, 1,008 or 21% were, again, in construction. Slim margins and…
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Top 6 security capabilities to look for in a SaaS field solution
Adopting progressive digital processes is a key competitive differentiator for field service organizations. In fact, according to Service Council’s 2020 Service Leader’s Agenda, technology for field service business operations is the most significant investment increase in 2020. Often times, this investment takes the form of a Software-as-a-Service solution. According to FinancesOnline, 63% of businesses opt…
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Macro trends and transformation: The future of the heavy manufacturing industry
The world of field service is changing. A new generation of technologies and asset management software is transforming heavy industry into advanced manufacturing entities of the future. But there are forces bearing down on that future. What are they? According to 100+ field service leaders surveyed for Service Council’s 2020 Service Leader’s Agenda Survey, these…
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Six steps to turn field service into a high-value profit center
The future is anyone’s guess. But as we enter a new decade, it’s clear that no matter what the future holds, predictive maintenance is definitely going to be a part of it. According to Service Council, 57% of field service leaders indicated remote service would increase in the coming year while 46% stated predictive alerts…
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Citizen developers are changing field service
How much do you know about the coding that goes into your laptop, mobile phone, or social networking platforms? If you’re not an IT person, chances are not very much. In work environments it’s the IT specialists — the technical engineers and programmers — who troubleshoot, innovate, and build department and enterprise-wide IT solutions. But…
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IT’s Role in Field Service is Changing: Gartner Conference Takeaways
Gartner’s 2019 Application Strategies & Solutions Summit brought application leaders, architects, development and integration professionals, and customer experience leaders under one roof. They discussed digital change, IT challenges, and the rising predominance of the low-code application platform (LCAP). These are the biggest things that we — a field-focused LCAP — took away from Gartner’s conference.…