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Madhu Karnani Oza, Director, Customer and Technical Services Asia Pacific at Abbott, talks with Sarah about some of the key considerations around where to place the service function within your organizational structure to achieve the greatest success if you’re looking to evolve, advance, and progress your service focus and revenues.

Lilja Scheel Birgisdóttir, Reliability Engineer at Icelandair, talks with Sarah about the immense complexities and interdependencies of airline operations and the role predictive maintenance will play in the airline’s future.

Trond Aune, Global ERP Manager and Henning Haugen, Group Technical Manager – Maintenance, both at Jotun, join Sarah to discuss the role of company culture in innovation, how a single source of truth was an imperative foundation for Digital Transformation, and how they’re building on success with the move to predictive maintenance.

Emilie Giraudet, formerly the Head Of Customer Service Business Support & Sales Steering at GEA Group, shares with Sarah her hard-won and valuable insights from more than a decade of work transforming global service at GEA. Insights include practical advice for how to influence and align key stakeholders, how to set a solid technological foundation, and three keys to successful change management.

Tim Baines, Professor of Operations Strategy at Aston Business School and Executive Director of the Advanced Services Group, makes his third appearance on the podcast sharing with Sarah insights into one of the most-discussed aspects of servitization: how to create revenue.

Sarah welcomes Bobby Lincoln, Supervisor of Customer Care Onboarding at Sysmex America, to discuss how to make onboarding personal – particularly in our now virtual world, how to train without creating overwhelm, and how to retain field service talent by offering career progression paths.

Here's the second half of our New Year's two-parter. To celebrate the end of a unique and challenging year, Sarah is joined by podcast producer and fellow website contributor Tom Paquin to discuss their favorite conversations and lessons from the past year. Guests include: Linda Tucci, Global Sr. Director of the Technical Solutions Center of Ortho Clinical Reeve Bunn, President of DSL Klaus Glatz, Chief Digital Officer of ANDRITZ Sonya Lacore, VP of Infight Operations of Southwest Airlines Mita Mallick, formerly the Head of Diversity and Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Marketing at Unilever and now the Head of Inclusion, Equity, and Impact at Carta If you enjoy our content, be sure to visit www.futureoffieldservice.com

To celebrate the end of a unique and challenging year, Sarah is joined by podcast producer and fellow website contributor Tom Paquin to discuss their favorite conversations and lessons from the past year. Guests include: Jamie Beck, Sr. VP of Field Operations at Peloton Roel Rentmeesters, Director of Global Customer Service at Munters Sae Kwon, VP of Customer Experience at Cisco Henrietta Haavisto, Head of Service Transformation Change Management at KONE Tim Baines of Aston’s Advanced Services Group at Aston Business School If you enjoy our content, be sure to visit www.futureoffieldservice.com

In honor of the Christmas holiday, Sarah features two very special guests on this week’s podcast – her sons Evan (5) and Ellis (4).

Jerome Soltani, Sr. VP of U.S. Services and Alex Gershman, Director of Strategy, Services and Solutions both at Schneider Electric join Sarah to discuss the inflection point service is at, the excitement that holds, and the challenges organizations face in bringing outcomes-based service potential to fruition.