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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

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.

Award Winners: Planning Teams

Originally broadcast on Tuesday 2nd July, 14:15

Learn how Real-Time Team of the Year, eBay reintroduced Real-Time globally. Hear from Lloyds Banking Group on how they achieved a Best Practice Shift Review. 

Innovation Winners: Indeed & OVO Energy

Originally broadcast Tuesday 2nd July, 10:30

Learn from overall Innovation of the Year winners, indeed on Leading Global Transformation and OVO Energy talking about their Service Transformation.

Opening Keynote: How to Learn

Originally broadcast Tuesday 2nd July 09:30

How you can use this week to learn from our members. 

Partnership perfection: Navigating the future together

Over recent years we have noticed a step change in how technology/service providers are working smarter with their customers to deliver excellent results. There is such a rich narrative now around the synergy between strategic alignment and practical execution. Using learning from our Partnership awards we can start to develop a comprehensive blueprint for what makes a partnership not just survive but thrive in today’s V.U.C.A world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity).
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Shaping the future: Fear, Ageing, Technology, and Hope

In summer 2023 I was at a conference with other gestalt therapists. The topic of AI, its impact on the world, and all of us, and how we might move toward and with it as a community came up. The discussion included the relationship that ageing and getting older has to our attitude on AI. In my opinion, AI is a proxy for Change and in some ways for the shape of the future. There were a lot of emotions in the room, including my own. I felt my anger rise: these ‘kids’ who were being talked about as adversely impacted by ‘how the world is and the inevitable change in the world’ are not another species, they are my kids, aged 13 and 14. Amazing young people who will have to find their path through an uncertain future. I was surprised by some of the strong reactions and responses in the room.
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How to win an award in less than 20 years!

In April 2007, Alison Conaghan and I attended The Forum’s annual Customer Strategy & Planning conference. Over the next two days we watched dozens of talks, keynotes, case studies, training events and, very importantly, the Innovation Awards ceremony. We learned a lot at that information-packed and inspiring event and walked away with our little  heads full of ideas to revolutionise WFM in our company. Above all though, that conference left us united by a single objective: to win the overall Innovation of the Year Award at the next Forum conference.
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2024 vision: a year of experimentation, data insights, and cloud challenges in the contact centre industry

As we step into a new year, the customer experience sector is gearing up for a transformative 12 months. It seems as though we talk about that every year – but I genuinely believe 2024 will finally live up to those expectations.

There’s been plenty of talking points in 2023; with the explosion of generative AI of course being the main one. However, this year we will see some real change in the industry.

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Partner Article: Calabrio integrates its software with Avaya Experience Platform Public Cloud

Calabrio has announced that it has integrated another solution with Avaya as part of its longstanding relationship with the leader in customer experience and communications solutions. This one sees the award-winning Calabrio Workforce Management (WFM) solution integrate with Avaya Experience Platform™ (AXP) Public Cloud in a milestone collaboration that will revolutionise the landscape for contact centres looking to innovate and modernise in the cloud. 
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