2025 Best Practice Guide
Raising Standards

Conferences

The Forum holds key conferences through out the year including our flagship Spring Customer Strategy and Planning, Summer Best Practice Showcase and Autumn #RaisingStandards conferences that offer a great opportunity to learn, share and network.

2025 Summer Best Practice Showcase (Virtual)

16th June - 22nd August 2025

Learn WHAT our award finalists are doing to continue “Raising Standards in Customer Operations”
This conference offers a unique chance for you to learn directly from our Awards winners. You will hear from the teams and individuals who are making a difference in their business, powerful partnerships whether that is with a technology provider or an outsource partnership. Finally, you can discover how large transformation projects have made massive changes in any business.

2025 Autumn: #RaisingStandards (Virtual)

13th - 17th October 2025

Learn HOW you can apply "Best Practice"
Designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.

2025 Autumn Conference #RaisingStandards (In-Person)

Wednesday 5th November 2025, Coventry Building Society Arena

Learn HOW our community is applying “Best Practice”
This conference is designed specifically for Planning, Insight and Quality & Customer Experience Professionals. Learn first-hand from practitioners and business leaders who are delivering successful change whilst having the opportunity to collaborate with others. Bring new ideas and techniques back that will raise standards within your “Customer Operation”.

2026 Spring Customer Strategy & Planning Conference (In-person)

Tuesday 28th April 2026, Grand Hotel Gosforth Park, Newcastle

Learn WHY we need to keep “Raising Standards in Customer Operations" 
Our flagship Conference, this highly rated event is far more than just a conference. Designed specifically to focus on the hot topics within the industry and thought leadership whilst also delivering practical skills with new ways of thinking that will enhance you as a person. 

2026 Summer Best Practice Showcase (In-person)

Thursday 25th June 2026, Queens Hotel, Leeds

Learn WHAT our award finalists are doing to continue “Raising Standards in Customer Operations”
This conference offers a unique chance for you to learn directly from our Awards winners. You will hear from the teams and individuals who are making a difference in their business, powerful partnerships whether that is with a technology provider or an outsource partnership. Finally, you can discover how large transformation projects have made massive changes in any business.

On-Demand Conferences

Catch up on the presentations from our previous conferences.
Box Set: Driving Improvement with MI (Management Information) & Reporting

Published on 24 October 2022

Box Set: Driving Improvement with MI (Management Information) & Reporting

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MI, reports and dashboards are key to the success of any organisation, but are they as effective as they could be. Are they easy to understand, are they focussing on what matters most and are they driving improvement? In this box set we will provide you with ideas and tools that will help you generate improvement and challenge your thinking around topics such as dashboards, operational playbooks, strategy, and target typology.

Modules

How do we add value in MI & Reporting?

  • This module covers:
  • The crucial role of reports and dashboards in driving actionable decisions and improvements in business performance.
  • The necessity of a performance framework to give meaning to metrics and encourage effective actions.
  • Simplification and relevance of reports to ensure they lead to meaningful actions, emphasising the importance of understanding, relevance, and trust.

Analysts as Improvement Champions
This module covers:

  • Emphasising the role of analysts as Improvement Champions, focusing on continuous learning and striving for excellence.
  • Highlighting the need to focus on critical areas, simplify tasks, and align insights with strategic goals for effective improvement.
  • Outlining three phases of improvement: focussing on priorities, building an operating rhythm for engagement, and driving actionable improvements in behaviour and processes.

Shaping the Future the 4 Stages of Insight
This module covers:

  • The importance of mindset change in forecasting, planning, and leading, emphasising preparation over prediction for future readiness.
  • The necessity to shift from viewing forecasts as right or wrong towards using them to stay ahead, anticipate potential issues, and support decision-making.
  • Encouraging strategic thinking and planning by imagining and exploring different possible futures, moving beyond traditional "what if" scenarios to "if then" approaches for goal-oriented actions.

Performance Playbooks
The purpose of reports and dashboards is to drive improvement through decisions and actions. But do the readers know what actions to take and when to take them. 
In this module we will show you how to create performance playbooks to focus and empower people to act with confidence. Identifying the right actions to take and when to take them. 
In the exercise we will be sharing a template to allow you to quickly and easily create your own performance playbooks.

Target Typology
This module covers:

  • The significance of target typology in setting effective goals, preventing unintended outcomes, and enhancing stakeholder understanding.
  • The difference between leading and lagging measures to demonstrate how various targets influence behaviour and results.
  • The critical approach to target setting, highlighting various target types and the risks of unintended consequences, underscoring the value of precise questions to foster desired behaviours.

Prioritising Triggers for Action
This module covers:

  • Building prioritisation scores into reports and dashboards to focus on key actions, utilising threshold scores, trend analysis, and impact scores.
  • Engaging stakeholders to tailor the prioritisation model to their specific needs and control areas.
  • Addressing challenges in model creation, including simplifying data presentation and ensuring continuity and relevance of prioritised actions.

The Strategy Pyramid
This module covers:

  • The importance of understanding your organisational strategy, vision, and values as the starting point for setting targets and goals.
  • The concept of the strategy pyramid, a framework to align support and measures with your organisational strategy.
  • The four lenses for strategies, including commercial, customer, people, and compliance, and the need to choose key performance indicators wisely to track progress.

Gamification

  • This module covers:
  • An introduction to gamification, highlighting its role in enhancing performance through psychological rewards and personalised motivation strategies.
  • Examples of gamification in everyday life, such as apps and reward programmes, to illustrate its widespread application and effectiveness.
  • Best practices and common pitfalls in gamification implementation, stressing the importance of clear goals, performance tracking, and adaptive reward systems.

Data Dictionaries

  • This module covers:
  • The role of data dictionaries in resolving discrepancies in data analysis and standardising definitions to prevent confusion and multiple versions of the truth.
  • How data dictionaries help ensure consistency in data use, prevent measure duplication, and facilitate uniform calculation across an organisation.
  • Key elements of a data dictionary, such as measure names, definitions, calculation formulae, data sources, measure owners, associated risks, and expiry dates for ongoing relevance and accuracy.
     

The cost of this mini series including accreditation is great value at £325 + VAT and free for students on our assisted learning pathway.

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