Day One: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
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| 08.00 | Registration
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| 08.45 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| CREATING A CUSTOMER CENTRIC ORGANISATION |
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| 09.00 | Keynote Address: The Paradox of Excellence, How Great Performance Can Kill Your Business
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Learn why customers are so dissatisfied and feeling entitled with your great performance
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Discover a radical new way to truly build lasting customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy
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Leave with a clear roadmap to higher sales, profits and value
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| | Michael Weissman, Co-author of The Paradox of Excellence, President, Fresh Perspectives
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| 09.30 | Keynote Address: Growing Sales with Exceptional Customer Service
- The difference between good and exceptional customer service
- How to turn ordinary clients to raving fan
- How to get your fans selling for you
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| | Dennis Wee, Founder and CEO, Dennis Wee Group
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| 10.00 | Business Leaders Panel: “I do” - the committed customer service employee
- How to improve your staff attitudes in handling customer complaints
- Incentives and strategies to create good customer service in your company
- The benefits of developing outstanding supplier relationships
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| | Dennis Wee, Founder and CEO, Dennis Wee Group Paul Pei, Director of Sales and Marketing, Ocean Park Chee Kong Goh, VP, Corporate marketing and communications, SMRT Michael Weissman, Co-author of The Paradox of Excellence, President, Fresh Perspectives
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| 10.30 | Morning refreshments
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| UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMERS |
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| 11.00 | Don’t settle for good – turn good customer service to great!
- Employee and customer relationship management
- The impact that employee reward and recognition plays in creating good customer service
- The challenges of changing company satisfied customers
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| | Dato’ John Beveridge, Manager, Grand Hyatt, Singapore, Grand Hyatt, Singapore
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| 11.30 | The brutal reality – companies do not really know their customers
- The value of knowing your customers
- Customer voice in CSI
- Improving for success
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| | Darrell Mertzger, CEO, Sentosa Leisure Group
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| ORGANISATION AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
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| 12.00 | Organisational Culture – Enabling Great Service
- What role does management play in enabling service?
- Attitudes that allow great service
- The role that service plays in differentiating our product
- How do you train for great service
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| | Peng Sum Choe, Chief Operating Officer, Fraser Serviced Residences Pte Ltd
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| 12.30 | Networking lunch
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| 14.00 | Service Quality an Obsession that Flows from Top to Bottom
- Let's Define and Talk about Service
- Create Empowered Employees, Pro-active, Service Oriented Culture
- Top Management Commitment - Involvement and Encouragement
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| | Paul Pei, Director of Sales and Marketing, Ocean Park
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| 14.30 | Microsoft - Putting the customer at the core of your business
- One Microsoft: How to listen, respond, improve and drive the business using a customer centric approach
- Alignment is the key: Aligning the business agenda and people strategy to make customers top priorities
- Motivating your team: Rewarding customer champions and using Six Sigma to build and sustain peak performance
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| | Pattie Grimm, Senior Customer & Partner Experience Manager, Microsoft
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| 15.00 | Speed networking
Speed networking is an exciting, quick and non-pressurised way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 45 minute session. These brief meetings are the starting point for conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long-lasting and profitable business relationships begin
- Meet…move on…meet…move on…meet!
- Exchange business cards with fellow conference delegates and industry peers.
- The best 45 minute networking session you’ve ever experienced Meet…move on…meet…move on…meet!
- Exchange business cards with fellow conference delegates and industry peers.
- The best 45 minute networking session you’ve ever experienced
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| 15.45 | Afternoon refreshments
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| TRANSFORM GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE INTO PROFITS
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| 16.15 | Taking the Mystery out of Mystery shopping
- Why mystery shopping?
- The importance of continually evaluating your service standards
- How mystery shopping can quickly lead to service improvements
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| | Money Ngoh, Author of the book “Mystery Shopping” & Director,, Mystery Shopping Pte Ltd, Singapore
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| 16.45 | Panel Session: Better Customer Service = Loyal Customers = Higher profitability
- Your people can be your greatest asset
- The relationship between loyalty and profitability
- The loyalty effect- loyal customers tend to spend more, cost less and refer others
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| | Confirmed: Chee Kong Goh, VP, Corporate marketing and communications, SMRT Confirmed: Peng Sum Choe, Chief Operating Officer, Fraser Serviced Residences Pte Ltd Confirmed: Pattie Grimm, Senior Customer & Partner Experience Manager, Microsoft Confirmed: Edith Lai, Co-owner of Saint Julien - Le Restaurant, Saint Julien - Le Restaurant Confirmed: Money Ngoh, Author of the book “Mystery Shopping” & Director,, Mystery Shopping Pte Ltd, Singapore
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| 17.00 | Networking lunch
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Day Two: Wednesday, 22 March 2006
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| 08.30 | Registration
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| 08.45 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| CREATING LEGENDARY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES |
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| 09.00 | Keynote address: Creating the unique experience to “WOW” your customer
- How customer experience can be your company’s unique differentiator from the rest
- Why shaping the customer experience is critical
- The three types of customer service – bad, generic and branded
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| | Joe Baladi, CEO, JOSEPH …on brands
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| 09.30 | Case study: Sentosa: The Power of Being Positive in Creating that Memorable Guest
Experience
- Energy, Passion, Fun - setting the mood for service "ambassadors"
- ZAPP! not SAP - creating a culture of positive reinforcement
- Let's Get Loud - establishing a "best practices" platform
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| | Darrell Mertzger, CEO, Sentosa Leisure Group
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| 10.00 | Panel Session: Operational Customer Experience - Ensure smooth process at all touch points
- Customer experience - where brands and customers meet
- Obsess over every step if the customer experience
- Ensure experience consistency at all touch points
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| | Confirmed: Darrell Mertzger, CEO, Sentosa Leisure Group Confirmed: Zyron Schoniwitz, General Manager, Mortons Confirmed: Vanessa Lam-Ong, Founder and CEO, Voxy Global Confirmed: Joe Baladi, CEO, JOSEPH …on brands Ryan Reuben, Editor, Marketing magazine
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| 10.30 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| LOYAL CUSTOMERS: EARN THEM. KEEP THEM. |
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| 11.00 | Companies that know their customers succeed. Those who don’t, risk failure
- What is customer loyalty, how can you track it meaningfully?
- How do you deliver great service consistently across a large organization?
- Should customer service be focused on product selling or customer solutions?
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| | Peter Flavel, Global Head, Standard Chartered Bank
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| 11.30 | Creating loyalty through absolute customer focus
- Re-strategise your business to inspire true customer loyalty
- Implement customer-focused targets that arouse loyalty
- Make your company philosophy one that wins customer loyalty
- ????Take on updated technology and business processes to induce loyalty
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| | Vanessa Lam-Ong, Founder and CEO, Voxy Global
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| 12.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| LOYALTY ANAYLTICS
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| 14.00 | Implementing a CRM program – The Inside Story
- Why CRM programs often fail
- How to build a CRM culture
- Top factors for success: culture, budget, internal buy-in, frontline execution, CEO
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| 14.30 | Loyalty and the Customer View of Value
- Defining a customer’s perception of value
- Exceeding your customer’s expectations
- The loyalty effect- loyal customers tend to spend more, cost less and refer others.
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| | Zyron Schoniwitz, General Manager, Mortons
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| 15.00 | Create real value through loyalty
- Defining a customer’s perception of value - knowing your target audience and recognizing what they need and want
- The supporting infrastructure – technology, operations, administrative, marketing communications
- Training of the staff to meeting customers expectations – promote and maintain customer and brand loyalty
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| | Alvin Yapp, Corporate Affairs Director,, Bus Ads Pte Ltd, Singapore
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| 15.30 | Afternoon refreshments
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| THE RIGHT REWARD PROGRAM |
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| 16.00 | The reward card - a successful multi-branded loyalty experience
- Why implement multi-branding?
- What is in it for the cardholder, the merchant and the customer?
- Recognising the importance of branding and the communication channels
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| | Alexander Rittweger, CEO, Loyalty Partner
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| 16.30 | Panel session: Multinational loyalty - Managing millions of personal relationships in different countries
- The importance of using customer feedback in your business strategy
- Implement updated technology and good business processes to foster loyalty
- Using predictive modeling to achieve business objectives
- Building loyalty one customer at a time
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| | Moderator: Daniel Ord, CEO, OmniTouch Moderator: Dato’ John Beveridge, Manager, Grand Hyatt, Singapore, Grand Hyatt, Singapore Peter Flavel, Global Head, Standard Chartered Bank Confirmed: Alexander Rittweger, CEO, Loyalty Partner
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| 17.00 | End of conference day two
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Day Three:Thursday, 23 March 2006
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| Post Conference Masterclass |
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| Agenda: |
The program will span topics across the 3 recognized stages of Service Delivery Design:
1. Create a Service Delivery vision 2. Execute the Service Delivery vision 3. Sustain the Service Delivery vision
In particular, the program will illustrate specific examples and case studies from leading organizations who have decided to climb the ‘Excellence Mountain’ in their effort to create a great service organization.
The benefits to attending: Participants will leave the program with a better understanding of the processes within each stage of Service Delivery Design and how to overcome certain known barriers to success.
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| About your masterclass leaders: |
Daniel Ord, CEO, OmniTouch
Daniel is the CEO of OmniTouch and a recognized expert in the Customer Service and Contact Centre industry.An American citizen, Daniel brings over 15 years senior experience including corporate management, research, training and consulting. Settled in Asia for the last 7 years, Daniel has conducted highly acclaimed engagements, workshops and certification programs across the region and for a spectrum of industries including banking, telco, media, governmental and consumer services. A frequently invited speaker and writer for industry events, Daniel has served as a Judge for various Call Centre awards while OmniTouch has been selected as the Official Mystery Shopper Evaluator for both the 1st and 2nd Asia Regional Call Centre Awards. Most importantly, as CEO, Daniel has assembled a team of the leading practitioners in the industry to deliver insight and professionalism to our Clients across the region. Prior to founding OmniTouch, Daniel was Regional Director, Training & Consulting for OgilvyOne in Asia, part of the global WPP Group. In the U.S., Daniel was Vice President, Call Centre & Distribution Operations for a US$100m consortium of direct marketing companies acquired by Time Warner.
S. Ramaswamy, CEO, South Asia, Regional Director, OmniTouch
Mr. S.Ramaswamy has a composite work experience of over two decades entirely in the Service Industry with a mix of Hospitality, Banking, Insurance, Logistics and Telecom. Having started his formative years in Oberoi Hotels, Ramaswamy has had exposure to the Middle-Eastern, African, Indian and Australian markets. He went on to be a core member of HDFC Bank’s direct banking team, responsible for setting up ATM’s and Phone Banking, as well as setting up and growing Branch Networks in North India. He then went on to set up AIG’s India venture – Tata AIG, and was the Founding Head of Service Delivery for Tata AIG Life and General Companies. Recently Ramaswamy was associated with DHL India, where he re-engineered the service delivery and key account management processes. Ramaswamy has hands-on experience in technology driven service process design and self-service development in the modern business environment where efficiencies and cost are two key drivers of service delivery and development. His most recent assignment was with Idea Cellular Limited as Vice President – Service Delivery & Quality involved re-engineering service processes and upgrading service levels using technology and people processes by creating new consumer behaviour favorably poised towards automation / self-service.
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