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The City of London From Ancient to Modern Susan Attard Deputy Town Clerk City of London Corporation

The City of London From Ancient to Modern Susan Attard Deputy Town Clerk City of London Corporation

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The City of LondonFrom Ancient to Modern

Susan AttardDeputy Town ClerkCity of London Corporation

Agenda: From Ancient to Modern

1. Background to the City of London

2. Access to Services

3. Technology

1: Background to the City of London

The City in London

History

The City of London is older than Parliament and has existed for more than 800 years.

Parliament is based around the City of London's Court of Common Council model.

London Government today: the City and 32 Boroughs, plus the GLA (Greater London Authority)

HenryFitzAilwyn First Mayor of London 1189

2008: world-class City

Support and promote the business City

Provide excellent services for our communities

Provide valued services for London and the nation

2: Access to Services

How we are organised

• 3,500 staff• 19 service departments• 125 elected members• 30 service committees

Rationale for change

Customer service for a world-class City, and improve the customer’s experience

More efficient use of resources

Provide reliable and consistent management information

Encourage business change

How we managed the change

Programme Management

Human Resources

Business process improvement

Technology and Information Services

Funding

3: Technology

CRM flexibility

Microsoft CRM

Easy to configure

Easy to use

Simple for Departments to use

Better Management Information

Flexibility in parking

The integration issue

First in London to adopt Smart Point

Single logon

Read-only view of back office systems

Dashboard went live October 2007

Events

The events function – banquets – VIP visits – is a key priority for the City of London

Complex data held securely in the CRM

Data from the old system was successfully moved into the new MS CRM

Contact Centre

April 2008: Open 8am – 5pm Monday to Friday Located within Guildhall 18 staff including Manager and team

leader No specialist Customer Agents Over 2,000 calls per week 84% of all calls answered within 20

seconds Less than 5% Abandoned calls Over 70% of calls resolved at the first

point of contact (i.e. not passed on to a specialist)

Phase 5 implementation May 2005

Where are we now?

from ancient to modern…

This is not the end of the story, it’s a new beginning.

Susan AttardDeputy Town Clerk

City of London Corporation

[email protected]