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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.

Strength in numbers the value of community

We build strength when we focus on how we collaborate and who we do this with. When we bring together trusted data, analysis and insight alongside a group of people with a collective desire to improve, we can achieve greatness.

Looking beyond the contact centre

Explore pioneering approaches by planners and analysts across back office, digital, field and branch operations and see the opportunity to cross-fertilise between teams that face different challenges. How can we connect our models, with a common language and framework, to consider our resource more holistically, as digital work queues grow?

Partner Article: Improve Contact Centre Operations with Robotic Process Automation

Alvaria Automate™ Attended and  Alvaria Automate™ Unattended allows centres to optimise normal and repetitive operational activities and automate error-prone tasks through robotic process automation (RPA) —improving accuracy, efficiency and consistency, while helping maintain compliance. 

Community Learning Keynote

How to thrive in a hybrid and digital world

Explore the factors to consider as you build new operating models and learn from the profound impact of the pandemic on knowledge sharing, social connection, working patterns and productivity assumptions.

Acquiring new technology? Learn how to steer clear of the biggest pitfalls

The traditional RFP process, commonly run by IT departments, brings you in far too late to actually make a difference. So take a look at the pitfalls to avoid and some tips on how to do it differently.

Next generation customer contact: what do we need to do to be ready?

Ironically, the next generation is often about what is possible now, from a technology perspective, but not yet operationalised. That’s the challenge. Yet the waves of change, these past two years, have left more ‘in reach’ than we might have thought possible before. So, let us look at our part in becoming ready for customers who want to engage in new ways.

Questions to consider for annual leave

As the world reboots after the firm reset of the Pandemic, we have the opportunity to revisit, redefine and reshape how we have done things. 2020 was a strange year, especially for annual leave, as lockdown restrictions changed how we used annual leave and the Government stating leave can be carried over, firmly “kicking the can” down the road, to give us a problem for another day (or year).

Telling stories with numbers

What’s the most important part of our job? What do members of our Learning Academy find most useful? We may pride ourselves on specialist knowledge or technical skills, but if stakeholders don’t get what they need from us, and trust our analyses, we will just be ignored. Explore what members are finding in two powerful Accredited Learning Box Sets.

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