Hotels learned that valet was too important to the guest experience to manage casually. Dealership service drives are confronting a very similar management question today.
Fewer than 1% of the dealerships we've visited had a comprehensive porter training program backed by documented SOPs. For a role that touches vehicles, keys and customers, the …
A meaningful amount of service capacity gets lost in the physical flow around the shop — not inside the bays. How to find the minutes disappearing between the major steps of every …
When routine frontline staffing issues repeatedly rise to the top of a service manager's list, the dealership has a span-of-control problem hiding in plain sight.
The service drive has more in common with a hotel entrance than most dealerships realize. Lessons from nearly 20 years in hospitality on designing the first five minutes of every …