Dynamic Scheduling: Key Enabler in the Effective Delivery of Exceptional Service

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - The latest research report published by the Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), titled "Advanced Scheduling Execution: Maximizing the Utilization of Service Resources," found that top performing organizations are turning to dynamic scheduling, dispatch, and mobile solutions to: increase the efficiency of their service organizations, deliver better, faster and more accurate service, and to efficiently contain service-related costs.

"While service delivery mediums such as remote and self service are gathering momentum, 59% of all service issues still require a technician dispatch," said Sumair Dutta, senior research analyst, Aberdeen Group. "As it is for any component of a business that commands 50% or more of the work, service and manufacturing, organizations are looking to improve the command of their field resources so as to maximize utilization while meeting and beating customer needs."

Research findings in the report indicate that top performing companies are nearly two times as likely as all others to employ solutions for dynamic scheduling. These organizations also place significant attention to the processes required to enable the synchronized creation, scheduling, dispatch, and resolution of service tickets to efficiently allocate service tickets and resources to match and exceed ever increasing customer expectations. As such, these firms exhibited the following:

--  80% level of workforce utilization as opposed to a 51% level for all
    others
--  An 86% level of compliance with required response/completion times as
    opposed 62% level of compliance for laggards
--  A 10% decrease in mean time to repair over the last 12 months,
    compared to a 1% reduction for all others.
    

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