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2015 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Homeworking - A flexible working culture at LV=

Learn how homeworking at LV= has boosted morale, improved customer experience, raised productivity and delivered a £2.3 million return on investment.

2016 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Great service: plan for processes that make life easy at Geoban

See how banking processes and customers’ end-to-end experience are transformed by new approaches to planning & insight at Geoban, on behalf of Santander UK.

2016 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Pushing the boundaries of planning at The Co-Operative Bank

See how the Demand Management Team (DMT) has extended the reach of planning to become an indispensable and trusted business planning & consultancy partner across all the bank’s channels.

2018 Innovation Award Winners

The Innovation of the Year 2018 award was won by Homeserve; an organisation centred on people and customers. In achieving commercial success and building community engagement, front-line teams re-connected with the organisation’s purpose, to rebuild trust. Marked out by judges as one of the best entries they’ve ever seen, this is a story everyone can learn from and be inspired by. They were also presented with the Innovation Award for Social Transformation.

2023 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Extending the reach and value of resource planning at Legal & General

2023 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Extending the reach and value of resource planning at Legal & General
Introducing a framework of understanding to use data to make better decisions. Launching Verint Workmanager to track and distribute work to support working practices for frontline employees. Transforming leaders, supporting long-standing processes and people to work in a different more future-minded way.

2023 Insight Awards: Desktop analytics in the back office at Firstsource

2023 Insight Awards: Desktop analytics in the back office at Firstsource
The team have leveraged data analytics for back office operations. They have integrated many data sources with existing desktop analytics tools. This allowed them to identify many opportunities for improvement. Small transformations are delivering significant benefits.

2023 Partnership Awards: Alvaria x Barclays

2023 Partnership Awards: Alvaria x Barclays
Trust and open communication were key to success in this highly complex and large-scale implementation at Barclays. The result is the delivery of true full customer engagement planning: front office, back office, branch and retail colleagues following similar processes and sharing resource to meet customer needs and maximise utilisation.
 

2023 Partnership Awards: Northern Rail x Hellion

2023 Partnership Awards: Northern Rail x Hellion
An especially integrated and successful partnership has delivered a step change in culture at Northern Rail, moving the focus from health and safety to customers, and establishing NPS as the key metric of success. Guided by Hellon, the focus was on what was important to their customers.

2023 Planning Awards: Next generation branch planning at Lloyds Banking Group

2023 Planning Awards: Next generation branch planning at Lloyds Banking Group
Intensive time surveys have come in-house so that branch managers and teams are now assessing information about customer behaviour. This now happens more often over a wider range of branch sizes, improving forecasts and leading to better staffing coverage with increased shrinkages and improved service to customers.

2023 Planning Awards: Putting nurses at the heart of resource planning at Fresenius Kabi

2023 Planning Awards: Putting nurses at the heart of resource planning at Fresenius Kabi
The Day in the Life programme has helped nurses and planners understand each other’s challenges, so they work much closer together. A single resource model now works across all areas of this field operation. Improved engagement and better process have led to operational improvement, ensuring that all patients are visited in a timely manner.

2024 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Enhancing Efficiency and Engagement across 169 Branches at Bank of Ireland

2024 Innovation & Transformation Awards

Bank of Ireland has embarked on a transformative journey aimed at enhancing efficiency, transparency, and employee engagement across its branch network. Through the implementation of new systems and working practices, the bank is not only streamlining operations but also fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

2024 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Enhancing Operational Efficiency at Leeds Bradford Airport

2024 Innovation & Transformation Awards

In a bid to bolster operational efficiency and foster employee engagement, Leeds Bradford Airport undertook a transformative journey built on core planning principles and operational effectiveness. Through candid discussions and strategic foresight, the team navigated challenges and harnessed opportunities, heralding a new era of organisational resilience and employee empowerment.

2024 Partnership Awards: CMS and Student Loans

2024 Partnership Awards

This strong, responsive, and mature partnership has delivered the first ever integration of the OPX back-office system with NICE, and the first integration that NICE has had with a back-office system. Student Loans now has full visibility of staff across the estate, allowing for the dynamic allocation of staff to different roles based on changing needs and operational priorities. Frequent and transparent communication at many levels, and easy access for the SLC team with CMS developers really helped to deliver a solution that meets their customers’ needs. ROI is very impressive, with £925k in year one and savings of up to £3.6m per annum.

2024 Partnership Awards: Verint & Vitality Health

2024 Partnership Awards

This collaborative and professional partnership has revolutionised back office operations and enhanced customer experiences at Vitality Health. The deployment of Verint Operational Manager has given visibility, streamlined processes, improved data analytics, and facilitated better demand planning. The outcome was not only a substantial increase in operational efficiency but also a significant reduction in customer complaint resolution times, reduced from two months to 72 hours. A strong sense of professionalism and a governance framework has been key to delivering and demonstrating the success of this implementation.
 

2024 Planning Awards: Leeds Bradford Airport Planning Team

2024 Planning Awards

This team revolutionised operations by adopting data-driven planning, refining stakeholder engagement, and streamlining processes, planning for security operations. Customer satisfaction saw huge improvements following queue times plummeting from 24 to 6.5 minutes and improved communication internally optimised resource planning and reduced errors. They removed inefficiencies, boosted employee satisfaction, and were able to attract high-quality recruits as a result. Through a culture of innovation and collaboration, they set a new standard for excellence in the aviation industry.

2024 Planning Awards:Kat McCarron at Hiscox

2024 Planning Awards

Kat led initiatives to enhance planning for admin and outbound calling, improving efficiency and customer service. By scheduling dedicated admin time and implementing an outbound booking tool, agents experienced reduced pressure and increased productivity. Collaboration with the operations team streamlined referrals, while understanding underwriters’ workload improved processes and built stronger relationships.

2025 Innovation of the Year - Brightwell Pensions

Hear from the overall Innovation Award winner Brightwell Pensions.

25 Years of Innovation & Transformation Keynote

Originally broadcast Friday 28th March at 09:30

Celebrating 25 years of the Innovation & Transformation Awards, this keynote takes a look back from a finalist and judges perspective. Discussing key industry shifts, from workforce flexibility and real-time analytics to automation and omnichannel experiences. We will also explore what the next 25 years of Raising Standards could look like.

Aviva 2014 Case Study - Continual learning: people build success

See how investing in people development is paying back at Aviva UK Health and how assessors are able to take responsibility for their own learning.

Best Practice Partnerships: Hear from the judges

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 10:30

In this session our Partnership Awards Judges will share their highlights from this year's finalists stories. Sharing what has inspired them, and the learning that they have taken from the process

Case Study 2019: Resource planning for engineers’ training at Openreach

See how analysts and stakeholders connected, making it possible for new tools, data and processes for resource planning to transform the delivery of Learning, Development & Resourcing for field engineers.

Community Learning Keynote

Originally broadcast Friday 18th November 2022, 12:30

Hear from a Forum Hero and organisations who have taken a team approach to learning.

Conference Endnote

Originally broadcast Friday 5th November 2021, 09:30

Learn how to invest your time wisely to help you spend time on the things that matter the most. Doing something different on a daily basis.

Conference Endnote

Originally broadcast Friday 4th December 2020, 09:15

Positive habits for a successful career With so much uncertainty in the world, it is important to take control of our conduct, behaviour and attitude. Developing simple positive habits can make a huge impact on how you learn, share ideas and ultimately transform yourself and our career. This endnote presentation will take a look at the role of professionalism, how to build positive habits and an opportunity to hear from members who have transformed themselves during 2020.

Endnote: Raising Standards

Originally broadcast Friday 28th March 2025 at 13:30

Closing the week with practical tips on how to use learning to drive action and raise standards. 

Endnote: Shaping the future: supporting your best next actions

Originally broadcast on Friday 17th May, 12:30.

Rounding off the virtual conference and first stage of this year's best practice programme with inspiration, ideas and clear next steps. This endnote will support your learning, and give you takeaway ideas on how to turn this into an action plan. 

Innovation Winners: Bank of Ireland & TSB

Originally broadcast Wednesday 3rd July, 09:30

Hear from Best Practice in Branch Planning winners Bank of Ireland and the Planning Team of the Year, TSB.

Interactive Keynote: Davies

Originally broadcast Monday 9th October, 12:30

Generative AI and the Contact Centre Experience
Join Mark Odlin from Davies as he delves into the transformative power of generative AI in the modern contact centre.

Keynote: Strength in Numbers

Hear from The Forum team on this year's theme - Strength in Numbers, The Value of Community and what this personally means to them.

Originally broadcast Monday 15th May 2023, 09:30

Hear from The Forum team on this year's theme - Strength in Numbers, The Value of Community and what this personally means to them. This thought provoking session will frame the week of learning that will be available through the rest of the Virtual Conference and challenge you to own your learning.

Keynote: The Value of Community

In this opening keynote, The Forum team members will discuss the importance of community.

Originally broadcast Monday 9th October, 09:30

In this opening keynote, The Forum team members will discuss the importance of community. They will provide practical advice to help you expand your connections within and beyond your organisation.

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