Articles Tagged with ''Dealership of the Year''

Overview of PrairieLand Partners' New Integrated Solutions Department

Steve Kaufman, Integrated Solutions manager with PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, shares the process of how the Integrated Solutions department grew from the earliest years. What began as AMS support on cellphones eventually evolved into a call center. Today, the department produces customized reports based the data each customer collects in their own fields and helps the customer understand and use that data to make management decisions.
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Dealership Develops Own Parts In-House

Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, shares how the dealership has come codeveloping their own parts and working with John Deere on others to increase the productivity of forage harvesting equipment.
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Standard Job Pricing: Getting There

Developing a standardized job pricing model is an important step in getting dealership employees and customers on the same page. Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, talks about the progress the dealership has made in simplifying this process.
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What's in a Name: PrairieLand Partners

According to Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, the "Partners" is an most important part of the dealership's name because it signifies the mutual benefits seen across the dealership's locations and the importance of shared successes.
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Managing By Values - In Practice

Amanda Cooper, director of human resources for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, talks about the "Managing by Values" initiative. Each store has a "Managing by Values" committee. These committees are made of 3 individuals who are tasked with resolving any values-violations that arise. While the committee makes sure the store manager is informed, it's their responsibility - not the store manager's - to see things through. Through this arrangement, values are "owned" throughout the organization, not just by those with manager titles.
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