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Reducing waste - avoidable contact - as part of a business improvement programme is just as vital as improving the customer's experience.  In order to put in place effective changes requires organisations to consider the staff's view, as well as the customer's.

GovMetric:Avoidable Contact provides a good platform for a consistent approach to measuring potential efficiencies across the organisation.

This product brings together both the customer's and staff's views of whether an interaction was avoidable. It helps you prioritise which areas to address to have maximum impact on the customer's experience in a cost-effective delivery model.  Seamlessly integrating with the GovMetric service, it helps identify the services, by channel, with the highest amounts of wastage and the ability to link that with demand and satisfaction.

Plan - Do - Check - Act

Reviewing the information captured in GovMetric, will help inform your strategies for reducing waste and avoidable contact, improve business processes, improve the customer's experience and easily continue to monitor the impact this has:

  • Are we still experiencing the same levels of waste contact?
  • Have our customers noticed that it's changed?
  • What are they and staff saying about it?

Benefits

By using GovMetric:Avoidable Contact you will be able to:

  • Improve staff morale by actively engaging them in understanding where waste contact occurs, coming up with ideas for service redesign and seeing the improvements!
  • Identify which services customers value and which are seen as being unnecessary
  • Compare how customer & staff perspectives differ - and where they are aligned
  • Identify possible areas for channel migration
  • Reduce operational costs post service redesign
  • Continually monitor performance and waste

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