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For service businesses

You don't make products. Your measurement shouldn't be about production either.

Consulting, software, logistics, agencies, education, healthcare — most digital maturity tools were designed for manufacturing and ask you about bills of materials. If you don't manufacture, MindDX Digital Transformation Platform's question set runs on service delivery, resource planning and delivery quality instead.

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What makes this hard in a service business?

Invisible

Project margin unknown

Which client and which project actually makes money? When hours spent don't line up with hours billed, the margin only surfaces at month-end, after the work is done.

Spreadsheet

Capacity planned in a spreadsheet

Who is free and when lives in spreadsheets and in people's heads. When new work arrives, the answer to "can we take it?" becomes a guess.

Promise

The service promise isn't measured

The response time promised to the customer is in the contract, but whether it's met can't be measured; requests are scattered across email, phone and chat.

In one head

How it's done stays with one person

The same service is delivered two different ways by two teams and the difference only shows when a customer complains. With no written standard, onboarding starts from zero every time.

What MindDX does here

Is capacity visible

Whether availability lives in the system or in a spreadsheet — that is what decides if “can we take this work?” is answered from data or from a guess.

The trail of project margin

Whether hours spent line up with hours billed — and when you find out — is measured; a margin seen at month-end is a margin you can no longer fix.

The measure of the service promise

Whether requests land in one place and whether the response time in the contract can actually be measured — a promise you cannot measure you cannot manage.

Where to start

If you already run a system

Start with Audit: which capabilities go unused across projects, time and requests, and which work has drifted into spreadsheets, reported department by department.

If you want to standardise the operation

The free scan and the full Checkup measure on the service profile; Discover puts the processes in writing and role-based training keeps the knowledge from staying in one head.

Related products: MindDX Checkup · MindDX Discover · MindDX Train

One more thing you can measure before you start

Process Mining Readiness Test

Does your data carry timestamps, case identifiers and activity names — measure it in minutes before entering process analysis.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked

What does a company that doesn't manufacture gain from a maturity assessment?
The same thing: a numerical picture of where you're ready and where you're at risk. The difference is in what the questions ask. If you don't manufacture, bill-of-materials, line planning and machine-data questions never come up; service delivery, resource and capacity planning, delivery quality and customer processes take their place.
Is my score comparable with a manufacturer's?
Yes. The dimensions, the layers and the scoring logic are identical across both profiles, and the number of questions applied to each profile is kept equal. That's a deliberate design decision — it's the only way two companies can be discussed on the same scale.
Which systems do you work with for service businesses?
The measurement is software-agnostic. On the implementation side we work with Odoo and Zoho for service processes — project and time tracking, support requests, field service and subscription/recurring revenue flows are covered by those two. abas ERP is aimed at manufacturers only.
Where do I state my company type?
Right at the start of the assessment, in the step where you enter your company details. The question set is built from your choice at that moment; if you change it later the set is rebuilt. If you're unsure, starting with the manufacturing profile is the safe direction — an extra question is recoverable, a question never asked is lost data.

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