Silver Fern, maker of Work Suite, software for greenhouse and nursery operations, has launched Grower Thursdays, a standing offer of free consultation time with its two senior technical executives. The launch follows what the company describes as significant demand after Cultivate.
© Silver FernStephen van Wingerden, CIO, and John Beauford, CTO.
Product demo and problems to solve
Growers can book a 60-minute Work Suite product demo. They can also come with problems to solve. Chief Technology Officer John Beauford and Chief Innovation Officer Stephen van Wingerden keep their Thursday calendars open every week for consultations of 30 or 60 minutes. Every call is free, and John or Stephen takes each one personally. Beauford and van Wingerden have been working this way with Silver Fern's clients for years, but it picked up over the last 12 months, and the company is now publicizing it for all growers, whether clients or not.
"Over the past 12 to 24 months we've worked extremely hard to streamline our operations and develop talent internally to free more of our executives' time, specifically John and Stephen, to make them available to growers," said Kevin Short, Silver Fern's Chief Oper...