Chief Deliverer of Results Quoted in Utility Contractor Magazine

The cover story for the May 2008 issue of Utility Contractor Magazine is called, "The Transmission: Fleet Management Systems Employ GPS and Cellular Signals to Up Productivity

It's a great article.  Here's my quote:

“By injecting actionable data from fleet management systems into the business cycle, leaders can proactively make decisions on fleet composition, replace vs. repair and fleet staging,” says Doug Mitchell, CEO and founder of RentalMetrics, a subscription-based consulting service operating online — allowing professionals to research available GPS solutions for their equipment, trucks and trailers and identify and calculate ROI for solution deployments across the enterprise. “Also, data can become very powerful when used across the enterprise to streamline transportation, dispatching a driver directly to a machine vs. somewhere on a jobsite or in field service, dispatching a technician to a machine with a proper inventory of parts based on a fault code received at the home office.”

We try to take a holistic approach with GPS solutions.  I've been chatting with solution manufacturers the last few days and each describe that "most clients still buy for one or two key reasons." There's nothing wrong with that...but to really extract the value from the solution across the enterprise, we must engage the entire company and break down the walls between corporate silos. 

"Mr. Large Construction company President...tear down these walls!"

(first equipment rental/construction company reader to add a comment with the person who's words I'm making a play on...gets a free 14 day FULL ACCESS trial to the RentalMetrics Interactive Learning Environment.) 

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Interesting ideas about GPS solutions...nice post.