We have observed in Better connected reports in the past three years or so that there may be a world of difference between a very poor and a very good implementation of a shared service. In this presentation the customer journey to the shared service website is examined for each of the four partners who operate it.
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Learning from 'Better connected 2014': Intelligent sharing of third party web services - 14 May 2014 - John Fox
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Learning from
Better connected 2014
Intelligent sharing of
third party services
John Fox
Digital consultant &
Better connected reviewer
This presentation, with speaker notes, will be available to download from the Socitm website.
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Why share a service?
• Council services are often merged to create
efficiencies for each council participating.
• Through economies of scale, service
delivery can be enhanced and substantial
savings realised by removing duplication of
effort.
• Efficiencies created often lead to faster
processing times, reduced cost to serve
and implemented well could be a huge
boost to the authority to achieving
significant channel shift.
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Current practice
• Good examples of shared web services tend to
be isolated rather than the norm.
• Many shared web services appear to benefit
the service providers rather more than the
customers they purport to serve.
• A shared service is treated like it has been
outsourced to an unconnected third party and
often appear to abdicate responsibility for
ensuring customers journeys to task
completion are smooth and trouble-free.
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Council tax and benefits
• The perfect service to share between
multiple councils.
• Significant improvements in service delivery
• Annual financial savings in excess of £2m
per annum.
• Consultancy, training and resilience
services to other local authorities
• Ripe for achieving external recognition,
accolades and government efficiency or
innovation awards.
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Citizen benefits of a shared service
• A straightforward to access service?
• High quality information provision?
• An improved, hassle-free service?
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Recipe for success
• Introduce the shared service properly (eg
council partner, represents the council, etc).
• Explain how it is intended to improve
customer service.
• Thoughtful links, including wording.
• Work hard to achieve an excellent,
consistent end-to-end user journey deep
into shared service website.
• Ensure that key information is not omitted,
eg council-specific requirements stated.
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CASE STUDY
www.angliarevenues.gov.uk
A group of four district/borough councils (one in Cambridgeshire,
one in Norfolk and two in Suffolk) who are “working together to
provide a quality council tax, business rates and benefits service” to
all their residents.
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Council tax and benefits
• The perfect service to share between
multiple councils.
• Significant improvements in service delivery
• Annual financial savings in excess of £2m
per annum.
• Consultancy, training and resilience
services to other local authorities
• Ripe for achieving external recognition,
accolades and government efficiency or
innovation awards.
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SPOT THE HOST!
I’m going to show you the council tax customer
experience provided by each of the four partners.
Can you spot which of the four hosts the Anglia
Revenues Partnership shared service?
I’ll invite a show of hands when you’ve seen you all four.
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Intelligent sharing of third party services
• Introduce the shared service properly (eg council
partner, represents the council, etc).
• Explain how it is intended to improve customer
service.
• Thoughtful links, including wording.
• Work hard to achieve an excellent, consistent end-
to-end user journey deep into shared service
website.
• Ensure that key information is not omitted, eg
council-specific requirements stated.
• Regularly test the user journey on both council and
shared service websites.
• Ideally a consistent user experience across all
shared service partner websites.
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Learning from
Better connected 2014
Intelligent sharing of
third party services
John Fox
john.fox@socitm.net
@x333xxx
This presentation, with speaker notes, will be available to download from the Socitm website.