Recent Project Experience
SKY Television
Sue is providing leadership guidance and coaching to improve important aspects of the SKY customer experience. Initially focused on improving the quality of their customer knowledge base, she has now been asked to extend her focus to other aspects of the customer experience in contact centres, including the quality framework and leadership change initiative to support the new framework.
Auckland Council
Customer Experience Programme Lead & @speed Digital Project Lead
Sue established a digital initiative to rapidly create more digital functionality for customers. This initiative has completed customer research, established a new digital scorecard, implemented a content continuous improvement rhythm, and implemented multiple mobile apps and a customer knowledge base – all in 5 months which is significantly quicker than the standard with Auckland Council.
Sue has also initiated and leads a number of key customer experience initiatives to take the existing Council Transformation programme to the next level.
Ministry of Justice – Collections Department
Sue assisted a team to create a tool-kit to enable the Collections team to implement best practice management of their internal knowledge base. The tool-kit was designed to include all aspects of operating knowledge bases, from design, technical viability, content standards, metrics to internal processes.
Telecom NZ Ltd
Customer Experience Strategy Development
Sue led development of customer experience strategy for Telecom. This work included extensive customer research to better understand customer needs throughout the end to end customer journey for telco services. Sue also visited the US to immerse herself in human-centred design practices as it pertains to customer experience, working with a Consulting Professor at Stanford’s d-School and a Customer Experience Strategy expert. Sue led Telecom’s pilot customer experience improvement projects – including establishing a lab store to test and measure improvement.
Service Strategy and Transformation
Sue led the development of a service blueprint to clearly translate strategy into action; ensuring alignment across the business. This was supported by an eight workstream change programme to fully set up the business for transformational change. This included a leadership and cultural change programme that was profiled in 2013 as a best practice case study by the Corporate Executive Board (USA).
Knowledge Strategy and Transformation
Sue led the development of a knowledge strategy for Telecom and led the knowledge base team to successfully migrate 13 legacy knowledge bases to a cloud-based platform. This created one version of the truth, used by customers (via online), contact centre teams and retail stores. A new operating model was implemented focusing on continuous improvement. Internal knowledge usage increased by over 500% and customer usage increased by 225% in 18 months. Sue presented this work as a case study at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco in September 2012.
Call Volume Reduction
Sue led the development of a call volume game plan that clarified the key drivers of inbound calls, as well as defined initiatives to improve customer experience and reduce cost to serve. This programme achieved annualized savings of 15%.
Personalising Customer Conversations
Sue developed a programme to implement and embed the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) as a key tool to help contact centre agents better tailor their customer conversations to customer preferences. As well as resulting in a significant drop in repeat calls, this initiative was seen as a major driver of increased employee engagement. Ann Herrmann-Nehdi awarded Telecom for the contribution made to advancing the application of the HBDI model through this programme. Ann has only made two other such awards to IBM and Microsoft Kinect. This is the first award to be made outside the US.
Channel Design
Sue led a team to articulate the customer journeys for all sales and service events for a new digital-centric business model. This included all channels – online, agents, IVR, notifications via email and sms, online and paper bill. These journeys were translated into wireframes and style guides to enable the technology build. The bill design was implemented as the new Telecom billing format in August 2013.
