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Day One: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Day Two: Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Day Three:Thursday, 23 March 2006

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Day One: Tuesday, 21 March 2006
08.00Registration
 
08.45Chairman’s opening remarks
 
CREATING A CUSTOMER CENTRIC ORGANISATION    
09.00Keynote Address: The Paradox of Excellence, How Great Performance Can Kill Your Business
  • Learn why customers are so dissatisfied and feeling entitled with your great performance
  • Discover a radical new way to truly build lasting customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy
  • Leave with a clear roadmap to higher sales, profits and value

 
Michael Weissman, Co-author of The Paradox of Excellence, President,
Fresh Perspectives

09.30Keynote 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
 
Dennis Wee, Founder and CEO,
Dennis Wee Group

10.00Business 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
 
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

10.30Morning refreshments
 
UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMERS
11.00Don’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
 
Dato’ John Beveridge, Manager, Grand Hyatt, Singapore,
Grand Hyatt, Singapore

11.30The brutal reality – companies do not really know their customers
  • The value of knowing your customers
  • Customer voice in CSI
  • Improving for success
 
Darrell Mertzger, CEO,
Sentosa Leisure Group

ORGANISATION AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
12.00Organisational 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
 
Peng Sum Choe, Chief Operating Officer,
Fraser Serviced Residences Pte Ltd

12.30Networking lunch
 
14.00Service 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
 
Paul Pei, Director of Sales and Marketing,
Ocean Park

14.30Microsoft - 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
 
Pattie Grimm, Senior Customer & Partner Experience Manager,
Microsoft

15.00Speed 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
 
15.45Afternoon refreshments
 
TRANSFORM GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE INTO PROFITS
16.15Taking 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
 
Money Ngoh, Author of the book “Mystery Shopping” & Director,,
Mystery Shopping Pte Ltd, Singapore

16.45Panel 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
 
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

17.00Networking lunch
 
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Day Two: Wednesday, 22 March 2006
08.30Registration
 
08.45Chairman’s opening remarks
 
CREATING LEGENDARY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES
09.00Keynote 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
 
Joe Baladi, CEO,
JOSEPH …on brands

09.30Case 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
 
Darrell Mertzger, CEO,
Sentosa Leisure Group

10.00Panel 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
 
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

10.30Chairman’s opening remarks
 
LOYAL CUSTOMERS: EARN THEM. KEEP THEM.
11.00Companies 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?


 
Peter Flavel, Global Head,
Standard Chartered Bank

11.30Creating 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
 
Vanessa Lam-Ong, Founder and CEO,
Voxy Global

12.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
LOYALTY ANAYLTICS
14.00Implementing 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
 
14.30Loyalty 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.

 

 
Zyron Schoniwitz, General Manager,
Mortons

15.00Create 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
 
Alvin Yapp, Corporate Affairs Director,,
Bus Ads Pte Ltd, Singapore

15.30Afternoon refreshments
 
THE RIGHT REWARD PROGRAM
16.00The 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
 
Alexander Rittweger, CEO,
Loyalty Partner

16.30Panel 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
 
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

17.00End of conference day two
 
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Day Three:Thursday, 23 March 2006
Post Conference Masterclass
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.


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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