9 Technology Strategies For Business Which Work
Contents
- Wireless access for field technicians
- Insurance claim processing with web application and 3G wireless network
- Free Wi-Fi in retail stores
- Operational CRM - Anticipating ways to add to a customers' experience
- Preventing drug counterfeiting using RFID tags
- Selling internal IT products & services to fund IT projects, R&D & infrastructure upgrade
- OCR to speed transportation
- Automated personalized offer generation for cross-selling
- Using GPS enabled cell phone to track drivers and optimize trips
- My favorites
Wireless
Wireless access for field technicians
Construction company Emcor Group put voice (cell phone), e-mail and specialized applications on a handheld device that fits in a shirt pocket. Field technicians are now more productive, using a wireless dispatching system tied to Emcor's customer support center.
As a result customers are now served better and faster and with consistently higher quality. Technicians arrive promptly and are better prepared to address customer concerns. It has improved time to invoice, invoice accuracy and overall customer satisfaction by more closely integrating the field to the office.
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