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Leveraging the Strength of Your Company’s Product Heritage to Build a World-Class Services Business. Larry G. Wash President, Global Services Ingersoll Rand – Climate Solutions April 27, 2010. Does This Sound Like Your Company?. The End Game is Services. Services opportunity.
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Leveraging the Strength of Your Company’s Product Heritage to Build a World-Class Services Business Larry G. Wash President, Global Services Ingersoll Rand – Climate Solutions April 27, 2010
The End Game is Services Services opportunity Brand strength affords you audience with customers and creates leverage Your brand reputation: Trust, Reliability, Knowledge “What took you so long?” PermissionConsideration “Of course, I will listen to a broader value proposition or proposal” $1 of product sold = $4 in services + $4 in enhancements, upgrades + adds over an average of 20 years Yield may be larger per annum over a shorter period for technology-based products
Step #1: Create a Competency Roadmap • These are the key competencies required to build and sustain a successful services business • Because: Services should support and enhance OEM brand and deliver a sustainable value and reinforce expectations for overall brand experience Offerings + Policies Brand + Communications Sales + Delivery Leadership Brand + messages effectively tether service to sale of products + equipment Well-defined, well-scoped product, parts and service offerings Effective sales tools and skills, compensation plan Strong service leadership to build a strong service culture Well-defined, well-communicated product policies – warranties, extended warranties, Effective service delivery system, execution, back-office Effective and consistent internal communications
Step #1: Create a Competency Roadmap • Use a model for identifying and evaluating core competencies, and for continually evaluation and measuring performance and making improvements • Identify Key Performance Indicators and service performancemetrics • Example: customer communications; timely, accurate, effective • Use a dashboard to invite comparisons and measure progress • Example: Customer 3-year account plans, asset management plans with contingency plans, technology migration path with schedules
Maturity Path is Part of the Roadmap • Identifies core strengths to build upon • Identifies areas of attention or developmental focus • Measures period-to-period progress – individual elements and overall • Elements include: • CRM and customer satisfaction • Execution • Selling and delivery skill sets; training needs • Profitability and service business performance metrics • Processes, tools, resources • Leadership • People development • Organizational structure
Example: About the Services Maturity Path • Services “Maturity Path” categorically identifies critical services business components • Helps internal stakeholders self-assess ability to create and deliver value and meet key service business metrics • Service agreement base growth examples: • On-time service agreement renewal as percentage • Meaningful customer satisfaction indices • Service agreement pull-through • Labor utilization and overtime tracking • Working capital management
Level 3 Results indicate service business is evolving Migrating from commodity-based services to high value offers Designing and adopting a solutions oriented go-to-market approach Implementing performance-based services in lieu of task-based Level 1 Understanding basic elements Standards Importance of service agreements Product-to-Service “Linkage” Pull-through Example: Current State Assessment in Services Maturity Path Level 2 • Fundamental requirements in place to sell and execute the business • The essence of creating value • Supplementing commodity level service offers with value-based, add on options • Automating to deliver productivity • Remote services • Measuring best metrics Level 4 • Results meeting financial & non-financial objectives; organization in place & executing • Global expansion • Highly leveraged offers • Customer satisfaction-driven • Best-in-class results
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings Understanding customer challenges and develop services offers that address them and help achieve their objectives • Effectively budget operating costs in an era of persistent concerns of energy volatility and recovering economy • Discover how to justify capital improvements and modernization when funding is difficult to get • “Make do” with limited operating dollars and staff as capital projects are deferred • Shift focus from expanding and upgrading to “mission critical” organizational needs • Understand business options and decision-making process
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings Help our customers meet organizational objectives: • Analyze current situation from A to Z • How do they currently operate their facilities • What are their top operational priorities? • How do they define a ‘critical’ incident? • Determine how assets can be operated more efficiently, economically and reliably • How and where are they currently using energy? • What are their operational objectives over the next 3-5 years? • Help identify and frame risks: Operational risk analysis • Review decision-making and select best options
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings The compelling services offer: • Meets customer objectives or addresses and issue and creates / delivers value to customers and company • Easily economically justified; has favorable economic impact on customer business • Born from innovative thinking and follows well-disciplined developmental process • Fosters good communications; effectively communicates OEM knowledge to the customer • Differentiated from conventional alternatives; not easily commoditized • Focuses on “outcomes” and “performance” vs. “tasks” and “calendars” • Provides potential solution to one or more concern • Focuses on an identified need – not a need that does not exist • Does not deliver on prescribed tasks at scheduled intervals • Not simply implied – measured in performance metrics • Not selling labor to work on something that may / may not solve a problem – fees based upon ability to solve a problem
TM Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings Example: Trane offer set for building customer confidence
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings Example: Trane opportunity • Customers asked for additional “options” built in to our service offers • Willing to “risk share” • To manage budget requirements vs. reducing scope • Our offer: Service agreement liability caps and co-payments • Created contract fee control by sharing repair liability risks • Customer “A” accepts an incident repair “co-payment” of $250, and reduces their annual service agreement costs by 2-5%
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings The economic justification • Customers make economically justifiable decisions • Services costs should be offset by identifiable “costavoidance” in other operating areas • Preventing efficiency deterioration • Preventing premature deterioration of critical components and equipment life • Avoiding high levels of unplanned failures and downtime • Preventing production losses or interruptions • If this is not the case, users of products should “run-to-fail” and then replace
Step #2: Create Compelling Offerings Example: Total cost avoidance • Total simple annual avoided cost can be achieved with a full service agreement for a 500-ton chiller at a large commercial bank building • What is simple annual net economic benefit of a full service agreement, if it costs $10,250/year? • Calculated avoided capital cost = $4,200/year • Calculated avoided energy cost = $3,500/year • Calculated avoided repair & downtime cost = $3,750/year • Total Simple Annual Cost Avoidance: $11,450 • Total Simple Annual Net Economic Benefit: $1,200/year
Step #3: Build Services Leadership Make talent management a proactive process • Make Talent Review discussions a regular practice • Calibrate leadership competencies and capabilities • Define appropriate development plans and roles • Conduct Organizational Leadership Review annually • Succession planning • Leverage strengths; develop gaps • Build the feeder pool for leadership through: • Coaching and mentoring key talent • Career goals and interests • Creating progressive career paths • Providing Regular and ongoing feedback
Step #4: Driving Culture Change Build on successes of product-centric business but recognize that service is different business model • Installed base is a #1 asset for growing a healthy services business • An industrial OEM: For every dollar of first-cost system or equipment sales, projected life-cycle revenue should ratio at about 8:1 • At same time, healthy installed market share means little without a strong service business to bolster it • End game is achieved when fully capitalizing on the market for service and parts revenues • World-class OEM service companies generate >50% of revenues from service • “First cost” of many categories of OEM equipment and systems generally is 5% of the total life-cycle cost of ownership • Critical to readily estimate cost of ownership for customers, frame the economics and assist with a cost-effective model for decision making (which option?: repair, upgrade, replace, consolidate)
Step #4: Driving Culture Change Excelling in service is a way of doing business • Leaders must believe that service is essential to long-term success • Fully committed • Should not compromise service objectives for short-term windfalls • Maintain strong customer focus/brand experience • Organizational structure is critical • Investing in people who can sell and execute, and deliver value consistently no matter where you do business • Innovation is integral to sustained service growth • Innovate to create value and address issues • Always develop solutions to clearly identified customer needs and NOT internal pressures to apply proprietary technologies and methods!
Step #4: Driving Culture Change • Attract and retain services talent – sales and operations • Strategic sourcing including employee referrals • Multiple interview processes • Service councils: stay close to the ground / engage employees • Build a visual service identity • Be visible and demonstrate your personal commitment through regular communications • Significant internal communications – including listening • Consistent channels in place to get to every employee • Communicate long-term strategy, goals and progress against • Recognize successes and the people that have driven them • Create a sense of community Excelling in service is a way of doing business (cont.)
Step #4: Driving Culture Change • Built services brand – featuring people rather than product • Created identity for service technicians • Focused on Trane service technician as individuals responsible for: • Delivery of ongoing service • Being primary touch-point for customers • Initiate shift in thinking about Trane beyond solely an equipment manufacturer to “building services” provider • Multi-faceted branding campaign – posters, newsletters, standards Ex: Service branding – Faces of Trane
Bottom Line: Leveraging OEM Product Position for Value-Based Services Growth Key business success factors: • Seat at the executive table • Depth of bench • Cultural change and transformation • Dedicated services P&L • Differentiated offers enable growth and margin expansion • Standard processes and tools • People development Investing in services offer: • Recession resistance • Recurring revenue • Resilience to market fluctuations • Manageable working capital investment • OEM advantages • Unique advantage • Product enhancements • Technology migration
Bottom Line: Leveraging OEM Product Position for Value-Based Services Growth Match customers’ issues with offers • Understand impact of economic pressures • Improve ability to deliver value • Share and communicate knowledge and educate • Become more creative and innovative • Discover savings and synergies • To help customers make investments • In support of their mission • Over the long term • Regardless of current economic constraints
Thank you Larry G. Wash President, Global Services Ingersoll Rand Climate Solutions (Hussmann, Thermo King and Trane) 732-652-6963; lwash@trane.com