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Why?. Improved Service Delivery? ODPM BV157, CPA, Priority Outcomes? Partnership Joint Working? Efficiencies Gershon?. Why?. Face – Face Required? Easier Access to Services? Faster - Save time?. Why?. Customer!. Research Suggests Citizens-. Difficulty in making contact
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Why? • Improved Service Delivery? • ODPM BV157, CPA, Priority Outcomes? • Partnership Joint Working? • Efficiencies Gershon?
Why? • Face – Face Required? • Easier Access to Services? • Faster - Save time?
Research Suggests Citizens- • Difficulty in making contact • Confused who does what? • Passed around / same information twice • Access outside 9am-5pm
CITIZONE 'Everything must be about the customer and for the customer'
What was it? What is it now? Against Multiple brands Single brand Complex to understand Inaccessible - difficult to find the right person, to understand process Not relevant, archaic & institutional Difficult to get satisfaction / resolution Simple, consistent messages Accessible - a single ‘face’ with multiple touch-points Relevant, contemporary, and personal A resolution focus – measured on customer satisfaction performance Citizone is for our citizens!
What was it? What is it now? Against A place where you queued and were passed from pillar to post Repetitive questions and endless form-filling A place where you were expected to know what to do and what information was required A frustrating process ending in dissatisfaction Multiple, fixed locations You are greeted promptly and interviewed by a single person with confidence A place where you are known and details are already available A place where you are mentored and where guidance is provided A promise of resolution A single location near to you What is Citizone?
What is a Citizone POP? • A “single face” for citizens to access local services • It is a: • A kiosk • A full face to face service • Sometimes both • Internet Website • Modular Design • Self Service and Mediated Service • County and District Services One Place • Link to Back Office Support
Our trial services • District: Advice, information, intelligent referral • Housing • Revenues and benefits • Environmental health • Council tax • Planning • County: Advice, information, referral, and some transactions • Highways • Educational awards • Trading standards • Helping people to use the websites
what’s it all about? • “Joined up” services – yes, really • Sometimes known as “One Stop Shops” • … or Information Points • … or Local Information Points • … or Service Zones • ... Or Resource Centres
Future? • Wider range of services • Bringing in Police, Housing Associations, Health, Benefits Agency, CAB private sector … • Videoconferencing • Smart Cards
Future? • Evaluate Dunstable Citizone • Launch Ampthill & Biggleswade Leighton Buzzard? • Introduce wider range of services - “life events” • Police, Housing, Health, Benefits, private sector • Videoconferencing for interviews with experts • Technology Portal, SMS, Telephony, Data Sharing CRM • Kiosks at council premises, post offices, leisure centres • Responding to requests for additional POP’s • Mobile Citizones • Smart Cards
?QuestionsPeter Whiskerpeter.whisker@citizone.orgMob 07909934937