Finding harmony between the centralized and decentralized approaches is challenging but critical in today’s ever-evolving field service landscape. There are benefits to both the efficient, global-focused strategies that make up centralization and the local, resilient, and adaptable elements of decentralization.
While field service organizations have traditionally prioritized a centralized service strategy, the shifting field service environment makes balancing the two field service approaches necessary. Field service companies can now harness the strengths of both strategies by centralizing decentralization with the help of field service technology.
Consider implementing these three tactics to leverage the benefits of centralizing decentralization in your field service strategy:
Align Global and Local Teams
Your field service organization can maintain the efficiency and standardization of centralization while empowering local teams regardless of whether your company is a large, global enterprise or a national company with regional teams.
Localized teams understand specific locations’ cultural nuances and regional idiosyncrasies, giving your organization a competitive edge by providing high-quality services in multiple areas.
Implement a Service Strategy That Prioritizes Customer Needs
The core of exceptional service is crafting offerings around customers’ needs. To centralize decentralization, field service organizations must move toward an approach that balances prioritizing customer needs and the critical metrics encompassing efficient and standardized operations, including first-time fix rate and profitability. Decentralization gives field service companies the agility to address regional challenges quickly and accurately. This balance of centralization’s efficiency and decentralization’s adaptability enables field service companies to provide the best customer service.
Embrace Digital Transformation
When field service organizations leverage technology, it can help them streamline workflows and achieve standardized, fine-tuned, and proven processes. Field service platforms, such as Gomocha, roll scheduling, resource allocation, and reporting into one centralized technology, enabling companies to save costs and eliminate redundant operations, elevating high-quality service.
Further, field service platforms offer real-time data to global organizations and centralized tools to local entities, helping to create synergy between the two.
Finding a balance between centralization and decentralization is the best approach toward a thriving field service organization. When your company aligns global and local teams and focuses on customer needs, you can leverage the strengths of both centralization and decentralization. Moreover, digital transformation streamlines and optimizes centralizing decentralization, enabling your organization to excel in the rapidly evolving field service industry.
Read the full white paper, Centralizing Decentralization — Adaptive Service Networks: Balancing Centralization, Resilience, and Local Expertise with Next-Gen FSM Systems, for further insights into this timely topic.