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  • Quality & Improvement Keynote: Mark Billingham, COO at the Very Group
  • Npower case study: driving process improvement out of QA
  • William Hill case study: transforming customer experience though QA
  • Motability Operations case study: quality, coaching & knowledge management
  • Workshop Catchup: Skills that create Great Customer Conversations
  • Workshop Catchup: Measuring First Contact Resolution
  • Workshop Catchup: How to Get it Right First Time

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2024 Partnership Awards: Verint & Vitality Health

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: Verint & Vitality Health
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.
 
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Categories: Library, Planning & Resourcing, Strategy & Leadership, Back Office & Beyond The Contact Centre, Awards Case Studies

2024 Partnership Awards: Tambla and Leeds Bradford Airport

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: Tambla and Leeds Bradford Airport
Collaboration and joint ownership of the plan has been key to the success of the implementation of a WFM solution, tailored to the aviation industry. This has supported LBA’s passenger growth and service delivery expectations and enabled a consolidation and centralisation of their planning and forecasting functions. There is now a clear view of workload and staffing levels, this has enabled data-led decision making to improve operational performance, queues in security have been reduced and SLAs with airlines are being met, all helping the airport to bounce back post pandemic.
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2024 Partnership Awards: SVL and Hoover Candy

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: SVL and Hoover Candy
A consultative approach from SVL identified that Calabrio would provide Hoover Candy with a tool that not only reduced manual processes but also delivered self-service functionality for agents to have more control over their schedules. SVL worked closely with Hoover Candy to plan the roadmap forthe roll out to focus on areas that would get buy in from internal stakeholders early in the process and to resolve technical issues with some of the key interfaces. Open communication and a deep understanding of their clients’ needs has been key to the success of this relationship.
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2024 Partnership Awards: Sabio & DHL

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: Sabio & DHL
In a strategic partnership with Sabio, DHL Express UK embarked on transforming its resource planning and employee engagement, addressing staffing inconsistencies and inefficiencies. By overhauling their Workforce Management system, focussing on accuracy, optimisation, and schedule flexibility, they achieved significant improvements in forecast accuracy, resource efficiency, and employee satisfaction. Sabio took time to understand DHL, and their service goals, and worked hard to support and upskill the team at DHL. These efforts led to marked cost savings, showcasing the value of leveraging technology and innovation in the logistics industry.
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2024 Partnership Awards: QStory & Jet2holidays

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: QStory & Jet2holidays
A mature and established partnership between QStory and Jet2holidays delivered an extremely successful intraday automation implementation, which has been a great enabler for Jet2holidays homeworking model. Once they had a better visibility of their absence, QStory supported Jet2holidays with the establishment of a centralised absence management function SMART. The QStory policy of retaining 30% of developer time to be available to work on customer requests has been a real enabler for this change, ROI and stakeholder impact has been positive. Jet2holidays are so delighted that QStory were awarded one of their coveted supplier awards.
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2024 Partnership Awards: NICE and BT Group

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: NICE and BT Group
Driven by a goal to discover whether NICE’s NEVA technology could be used to support scheduling activities, NICE and BT Group worked together as one team to design a solution. By adopting NICE’s NEVA technology, they were able to reduce the number of interdependent systems, remove transactional work, and create new skills and career development opportunities for schedulers to learn robotics. This venture was built on mutual respect, open communication, and shared goals, and created a new use case for NEVA which works for BT Group and which NICE can share with their customers.
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2024 Partnership Awards: miPerform & Northumbrian Water

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: miPerform & Northumbrian Water
miPerform and Northumbrian Water have been working in partnership since 2020 to redefine the boundaries of client and technology collaboration. At the heart of this partnership is a joint vision to deliver customer service excellence through empowering agents and enabling self-management, through deployment of an innovative toolset that supports peer-to-peer benchmarking, gamification, transparency, and fairness of reward. The operational background of the team at miPerform has been key to success; they understand what is important, combined with rapid response times, shared goals and an openness to learning and challenge. This is a very successful and embedded partnership.
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2024 Partnership Awards: Davies & Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: Davies & Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
This open and trusting partnership has delivered on the selection and configuration of the best fit interaction analytics platform for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water. Davies, through their Managed Analytics service trained the team and helped them to identify priorities, and scale problems to ensure that they did not try to do too much all at once, and ROI was achieved. A process issue affecting one vulnerable customer was identified, queries revealed the extent of the customer base that could be affected by this flaw, this enabled them to make a change to the process, improving services for their most vulnerable customers. Results include a reduction in verbal complaints of 15%, a reduction in AHT by 35 seconds, and a speed up of the investigation process from 14 days, to just one day.
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Categories: Library, Operational Improvement, Data, Analytics & Insight, Strategy & Leadership, Awards Case Studies

2024 Partnership Awards: Davies & TJX

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: Davies & TJX
In a strategic collaboration, global retailer TJX and Davies revolutionised employee onboarding, focussing on decentralised training and soft skills. Incorporating digital learning and aligning with cultural values, they achieved a 300% investment return, which included a reduction in the glide path to productivity in the contact centre from 8 weeks to 6 weeks. This partnership not only enhanced employee engagement and customer service for TK Maxx and HomeSense but also established new benchmarks for training excellence, an increase in empathy and rapport with customers with a positive impact oncustomer loyalty.
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2024 Partnership Awards: CMS and Student Loans

2024 Partnership Awards

2024 Partnership Awards: CMS and Student Loans
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.
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Categories: Library, Planning & Resourcing, Strategy & Leadership, Back Office & Beyond The Contact Centre, Awards Case Studies

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