Waverley Borough Council shares digital services and using their own talent
The challenge
Waverley Borough Council is a local government district in Surrey – a rural borough with many older residents and a variation in broadband quality.
To support their inclusivity and choice goals, they wanted to provide several easy options for residents to contact the council. With limited resources and budget constraints, they needed a flexible solution that would allow for further development using existing internal resources – sharing digital services with other councils.
Supporting more inclusivity and choice
Waverley was initially looking for a new telephony system and CRM. They began using Liberty Converse, our omnichannel contact centre solution, to create a customer service centre, and then deployed Citizen Hub to link their contact centre with the CRM and improve all back-end processes. With the new contact centre, Waverley gained:
Visibility of calls and call waiting times
Joined together multiple telephony services
Improved accessibility for residents who are directed to the right team, quickly and without frustration
Call recording to help understand complications on specific calls, supporting agent training and development.
“Collaborating and using the AppShare is one of the major positives of Liberty platform and Citizen Hub. All local authorities are feeling the same pain points, providing the same services. We’ve shared some of our work with the Netcall Community – we can all benefit from processes that councils up and down the country are implementing.”
Linda Frame
IT Manager, Waverley Borough Council
The solution
To integrate their telephony systems and CRM, Liberty Converse delivered an omnichannel contact centre solution that delivered better visibility of calls and waiting times, improved accessibility with efficient call routing to the right teams, and call recording to pinpoint complications and support agent training and development.
With Citizen Hub, Waverley was able to link their contact centre with a CRM, improving all back-end processes to smooth out and speed up progress on each task.
This end-to-end solution uses Liberty Create, our low-code development platform, to enable the team to deliver more convenience and share digital services with other councils.
Using Liberty Create low-code, the team started their journey with a solution to manage hot-desking for flexible working — using a SafeDesk™ app available on the AppShare community. With their digital autonomy, the team are free to use low-code to build many new apps, delivering more value to residents.
“With budget pressures, we need to take a different view of how we can deliver services in future and low-code is working well for us. The huge potential of Liberty Create is that it offers us a platform that our staff can use to create what they need, now and in the future. We’ve found that the more we map out each customer journey upfront, and give the builders accurate information, the quicker the build progresses.”
Linda Frame
IT Manager, Waverley Borough Council
The result
100% digital autonomy
Improved resident service accessibility
End-to-end citizen experience
Sharing digital services
Time and development savings
Upskilled team to develop apps in-house
Rapid project development
No reliance on supplier timescales and costs
Omnichannel customer service centre
It brought together multiple telephony services
Digital transformation for resident convenience
In linking their contact centre with a CRM, to improve efficiency and support smoother back end processing, the team expanded to Citizen Hub, Delivering end-to-end digital local government services, residents enjoy more accessibility.
Saving time and money through sharing digital services, already developed by other Citizen Hub council users, the team can supercharge their digital transformation efforts — sharing developments with other councils. Plus, with the skills they learned, the team now hold the power of digital transformation in their own hands. Using low-code and Citizen Hub resources, they continue to develop new services and apps to enhance resident experience.
Impact
100%
digital autonomy
Greater
savings & efficiency
More
new digital services
Supercharge digital transformation
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