Introducing the IDC Servitization Barometer
Jul 24, 2020 • Features • IDC • White Paper • Digital Transformation • IFS • Servitization and Advanced Services
In a new series of extracts from an excellent white paper published by IDC and sponsored by IFS, we will explore the IDC Servitization Barometer which is designed to allow field service organisations to chart their path to new revenue streams. In part one we looked at the rapid and wide reaching change that is being faced by manufacturers in all sectors, in all regions. Now in part two we look further at IDC's Servitization Maturity Framework
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IDC strongly believes servitization will make or break digital transformation initiatives in physical value chains. As the concept is still relatively new to many organizations, it needs to be articulated and clarified.
To help organizations understand where they currently are on this journey and, more importantly, how to proceed to the next level, IDC has built the IDC Servitization Maturity Framework, identifying key dimensions and stages defining an organization’s readiness. In connection to this effort, IDC and IFS have cooperated for this first edition of the IDC Servitization Barometer, a data-based assessment of where companies around the globe find themselves in the servitization journey.
The barometer is fed by an IFS-sponsored survey carried out in July 2019, touching 420 companies active in the physical supply chain world. In this section, we will provide an overview of the tenets of the Maturity Framework, before deep diving into the results of the Barometer. For more detailed information on the survey, including demographics and background, please refer to the Methodology appendix. IDC believes an organization’s status as regards to servitization is defined by the five equally important dimensions described in Figure 3 below.
IDC believes the servitization journey can be summarized in four key stages, as shown in Figure 4.
The four stages can be described as follows:
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Splintered. The organization struggles under a myriad of silos that lead to disjointed, manual processes. Legacy, fragmented ERP environments provide little or no visibility on operational performance. The business model is on pure product, with challenges to profitability.
- Side-car. The organization has standardized the two chunks of the value chain (back-office and front-desk) but keeps them separated. The keyword in the company is efficiency and few add-on services are delivered. Field service is based on basic mobile capabilities and IoT stacks are at proof-of-concept stage. Growing the business is hard.
- Joined-Up. Front-office and back-office flows have been integrated in both directions and leverage the power of advanced technologies such as IoT to feed the core systems with real-time data. In some cases, Edge capabilities bring coordinated autonomy to local sites. A suite of digital services is fully available, and business model enhancements such as pay-as-you-use and outcome-based contracts are being explored.
- Borderless. Processes start and end outside the organization and operations and technology enable different elements of the value chain to connect. Co-creation, data-sharing and collaboration with customers, suppliers, partners from other sectors and in some cases even competitors are part and parcel of the business model.
Servitization - A Real Example
Further Reading:
- Read more about Servitization and Advanced Services @ www.fieldservicenews.com/blog/tag/servitization-and-advanced-services
- Read more about Digital Transformation @ www.fieldservicenews.com/blog/tag/digital-transformation
- Read exclusive FSN features from IDC's Aly Pinder @ www.fieldservicenews.com/blog/author/aly-pinder
- Read FSN Features and News from the IFS team @ www.fieldservicenews.com/hs-search-results?term=IFS
- Find out more about the solutions IFS offer to help field service companies @ www.ifs.com
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