Case Study Flashcards

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What is the background of in2com

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New ceo hildle
Lost it’s market position
Customers limited and margins under pressure
Increasingly difficult to differentiate
High labour cost
Customers putting pressure on quality and efficiency

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What was hildles vision for the first change

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To evolve from a contact centre to and engagement centre

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What happened at the first meeting with management

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Only through innovation that we will make a difference
How to get people on board with change
General feeling of resignation - people remain in their pigeonholes
How to ensure staff evolve from satisfaction to commitment?

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What were the outcomes of the brainstorming

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Improve communication 
Extra hierarchical levels 
Renovation of work environment 
Additional monitoring
Rotation of staff
Strengthen middle management 

Invest in TVs to communicate results and progress
Add partner manager to structure - relieves ops managers to give more space to motivate
Bought colourful armchairs

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What were the outcomes of the first changes

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Work quality of advisors is poor

Work is repetitive, complex and had little variability or autonomy

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What did advisors say in breakfast sessions

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Little autonomy
Little room for improvement ideas
Felt their talent was being under-utilised

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What was the content of the second change

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Organisational structure change
Had to encourage Job enlargement- horizontal and job enlargement
Implement unless rule

Bert raises concern of erosion of

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