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review Presentations Customer Engagement in Telcos/Utilities Forum 23 OCTOBER, 2014 Keynote: Preparing the Plan – Important Considerations for your Customer Management in 2015 and Beyond Mike Havard, Director, Ember Services Drawing on experience and perspectives from Ember’s strategy and operational programmes across energy, water and telecoms, as well as wider industry references, Mike will aim to inform your planning and thinking for how customer management will need to evolve for organisations to stay relevant and competitive. From key trends in digital customer engagement through to the practical aspects of operational performance and MI, the session will provide guidance for your investment and planning priorities over the next few years. This will include: • Understanding the ‘value of value’ and how this should be the key focus • The danger of dogmatism in data and digital planning • Assessing the relevance of regulation • The rise of transformative outsourcing, the myths and the principles for success. 2014 Trends in Utilities & Telecoms Customer Experience Stephen Harwood, Client Services Director, Nunwood Maria Slaymaker, Client Services Director, Nunwood Since 2010, Nunwood's Customer Experience Excellence Centre has studied over 800 of the world's leading customer facing brands across a multitude of industries. This October, the fifth annual review of the UK market is released, providing one of the most comprehensive crosssector evaluations of best practice. Exclusively for the UK telecommunications and utilities sectors, this paper reveals the key characteristics that determine success - The Six Pillars of Customer Excellence. These pillars provide the universal principles that great brands weave into every part of their experience. With similarities in operating models, both the telecommunications and utilities sectors face a number of common challenges in customer experience. Adopting external best practice and challenging industry norms is essential for any brand genuinely seeking to differentiate on the customer. Making Mobile Better for Customers Danny Dixon, Director of Customer Strategy, Three Three’s Director of Customer Strategy, Danny Dixon, will set out how the mobile operator is putting the customer at the heart of its business and how this influences everything from Three’s network strategy to its approach to pricing and customer care. How Did They do That? Sue Forgie, Territory Manager, Interactive Intelligence Customer delight, reducing Customer Complaints, unhappy customer broadcasts going viral through social media… are all hot topics in the Telco and Utility industry. If we keep doing the same thing over and over again can we really expect a different result? Sue Forgie takes a fresh approach and discusses some exciting ideas that are practical, realistic I S S U E S O V E N T E E N • • A N O IV E 2 0 1 4 2 0 1 4 F HT