Fortellis Event Relay: when the system changes, who needs to act?
A workshop update has little value if the person who needs it discovers it after making the wrong promise.
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AVILOO’s warranty move: keep the test and the promise distinct
A battery test describes evidence. A warranty makes a promise under defined terms. Customers need to understand both.
Read insight →Relationship led retention: remember what happened last time
A customer does not experience retention as a percentage. They experience the next call, the remembered concern and the promise that was either kept or forgotten.
Read insight →FLAI and voice AI: answering the call is only the first test
Answering every call would be a poor achievement if customers still could not get their problem resolved.
Read insight →The digital workshop still needs someone who can diagnose the exception
A workshop can become more digital while becoming more dependent on the judgement of a few experienced people.
Read insight →Vehicle intelligence must earn the right to recommend work
A vehicle history record can suggest a useful question. It cannot, on its own, prove that a repair is required today.
Read insight →An automotive knowledge base should remember where the claim came from
An automotive knowledge base becomes less useful when it remembers the conclusion but loses the source, date and uncertainty that made the conclusion meaningful.
Read insight →Automotive knowledge needs an owner before it becomes software
The most valuable part of an automotive system may be the reasoning behind a rule: why a stock line needs review, which warranty evidence matters or when a customer case requires escalation.
Read insight →The purchase invoice does not tell the whole supply story
A business can agree the price of a component or device while remaining unclear about who is physically supplying it and what must happen before it arrives.
Read insight →A new brand’s aftersales plan should survive its first difficult repair
A new manufacturer can launch with a strong ownership promise and still discover that its network is unprepared for an unusual repair.
Read insight →More data access does not automatically mean better intelligence
An automotive intelligence project can ask for so much information that the work becomes harder to approve, explain and govern before it produces a useful answer.
Read insight →Battery passport readiness is an operating question
A business can understand the idea of a battery passport while remaining unsure who will collect the evidence, maintain it and use it during a repair.
Read insight →Flexible warranty support needs permanent clarity
Flexible resource can help an automotive business cope with warranty demand. It cannot compensate for unclear authority or an unreliable flow of evidence.
Read insight →The next event matters more than the next report
By the time a delay becomes a monthly KPI, the customer may already have spent a week asking what is happening.
Read insight →Count completed journeys before counting automotive applications
A long list of applications can make a programme look further advanced than the people expected to use it would recognise.
Read insight →A familiar screen can reduce uncertainty but it cannot settle the case
Every time an employee opens another operational tool, they have to work out what its labels mean, where the evidence sits and whether an action has actually completed.
Read insight →A module directory is not evidence that the business is connected
A platform can look extensive long before it behaves as one connected operation. A directory of modules shows the scope of the idea, not the reliability of the work moving between them.
Read insight →McKinsey’s pricing challenge: can your business explain the price?
A price is a decision about margin, availability and customer confidence. Treating it as a percentage added to cost leaves much of that decision unexamined.
Read insight →Voltest recognition: an award should sharpen the delivery standard
Industry recognition should increase the pressure to deliver useful work.
Read insight →A common battery number still needs a common explanation
A market can agree to display battery State of Health and still leave buyers comparing results they do not understand.
Read insight →A partner conversation is not an integration strategy
A promising discussion between two automotive businesses can produce a long list of possibilities before either side has defined the first usable service.
Read insight →Remote expertise is only as useful as the repair around it
Access to a specialist can remove a difficult technical barrier. It does not automatically remove the operational delay surrounding that barrier.
Read insight →An EV inspection needs a coherent case before it needs a clever score
Combining photographs, battery health information and inspection observations can improve an EV case. Giving the bundle a score does not make the conclusion reliable by itself.
Read insight →Mobile aftersales succeeds when the job fits the visit
A mobile technician can be closer to the customer and still arrive unable to complete the work. Convenience depends on the preparation behind the visit.
Read insight →A pilot should make the commercial answer easier to reject
A pilot loses its value when everybody involved is committed to calling it a success before the first customer arrives.
Read insight →Cambria’s battery certificates: give the buyer evidence they can use
A battery certificate earns its place when it helps a buyer make a better decision.
Read insight →The battery certificate needs a place in the sales conversation
A retailer can hold a battery report and still struggle to explain a used EV confidently. The document only helps when the team understands how to use it in the conversation.
Read insight →A national testing network needs more than national coverage
A map full of testing locations looks reassuring. It says much less about whether two sites will produce equally usable records for the same commercial question.
Read insight →A battery health result cannot clear a collision damaged EV
An attractive battery State of Health result does not establish that a collision damaged electric vehicle is safe to handle or return to use. Confusing those questions can undermine the value of an otherwise…
Read insight →Selling the battery tester is the beginning of adoption
A testing device can arrive quickly. A dependable battery evidence process takes more work.
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