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2021 Innovation & Transformation Awards: FIS Group

Learning Culture at FIS Global
Career progression is now at the heart of this organisation’s culture, with a passion to drive learning and development. A playbook of next steps is embedded into their operating model, with metrics and review points, putting colleagues at the centre of their strategy for customer service.

2021 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Click Mechanic

At Click Mechanic for instance, highly commended by judges, they aim to bring transparency, trust, and convenience to car repairs, identifying a clear gap in the market. This is made possible by an operating model that’s truly joined up, creating a seamless journey that removes effort for both mechanics and customers. Another key ingredient of success is an innovative quote engine, in a simple-to-use app, that brings together data from a variety of sources and uses machine learning to generate simple, fixed-price quotes.

2021 Innovation & Quality Team Awards: Loop (Yorkshire Water)

At Loop (part of Yorkshire Water) the role of the Development Centre team has been pivotal in a transformation of recruitment and induction, from formal training to daily interactions, as part of the wider Learn-Grow-Transform programme. Where once team leaders were focussed on managing leavers and new starters, now a new approach to coaching is being pioneered, starting with critical areas like the complaints team. With COVID, much of this is now delivered virtually, some of which will be part of the new learning model going forwards.

2021 Innovation & Transformation Awards: Hoist

At Hoist Finance an ambitious roll out of a new pan-European omni-channel platform, was accelerated into a few weeks, to support working from home with lockdown. This huge logistical challenge was overcome by their award-wining partnership with Aspect and by a host of approaches to engage people and support colleague wellbeing, not least a wonderful, virtual, pan-European “Eurovision Contact Centre Contest”. 

Capita Regulated Services - Planning Team & Innovation Awards Case Study 2021

At Capita, transformation for clients in life or pensions services is being made possible by a common operational excellence framework that charts a transformation journey of maturity for back office and end-to-end process operations. The award-winning, central planning team works across multiple sites 
and clients, in both front and back-office work. This Service Modernisation builds planning and operational maturity, in a consistent and deliverable manner.

2021 Planning Awards: Severn Trent Water

The planners at Severn Trent Water work in geographically separated teams, looking to establish best practice planning discipline, data and processes. They have consolidated 44 different local working practices for in-day planning, alarm handling and jeopardy management, in this field engineering operation, dramatically reducing the number of outstanding jobs. 

2021 Insight Awards: David McGhee at PokerStars

2021 Insight Awards: FIS

At FIS (the global financial payment giant), they have created a risk thermostat that clients can adjust, by generating a score not a binary decision, cutting fraud and saving costs.

2021 Insight Awards: Three Ireland

At Three Ireland (Team of the Year 2021) automation is also the first policy for all reporting, and they focus on how to remove blind spots (turning unknowns into knowns). Work requests are prioritised through the clear use of problem statements and a full reporting audit is undertaken every three months.

2021 Insight Awards: Ember

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