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Les Rencontres: CTO: Le Saint Graal?

Pendant longtemps, le TCO donnait une impression de contrôle. On investissait, on amortissait, on optimisait. Les coûts étaient visibles, relativement prévisibles, et structurés autour d’une logique claire entre CAPEX et OPEX. Ce modèle ne suffit plus à expliquer où va réellement l’argent. Aujourd’hui, une part croissante des dépenses IT ne repose plus sur ce que l’on possède, mais sur ce que l’on consomme: des tokens générés par l’IA des agents qui exécutent des actions en continu des outils SaaS qui se multiplient dans les équipes du cloud qui s’adapte en permanence à l’usage Le coût ne disparaît pas, mais il devient plus diffus, plus dynamique, et souvent plus difficile à attribuer, à expliquer, et à maîtriser. C’est là que des approches comme le Technology Business Management, ou TBM, redeviennent particulièrement utiles: non pas comme un exercice de reporting supplémentaire, mais comme un moyen de relier concrètement les dépenses aux services, aux usages, et aux décisions. Et c’est là aussi que la question du “Saint Graal” revient, mais sous une autre forme. Vous vous demandez peut-être: Comment garder de la maîtrise quand la dépense dépend du comportement, des usages, et parfois même de systèmes autonomes ? Comment piloter l’équilibre CAPEX/OPEX quand le cloud, le SaaS et l’IA déplacent progressivement les coûts vers des modèles variables ? Quels coûts restent encore trop souvent hors radar: ressources métier, formation, support, intégration, sécurité, gouvernance ? Et surtout, qu’est-ce qu’un “bon TCO” veut encore dire quand il faut le mettre en regard d’objectifs parfois plus stratégiques, plus longs à mesurer, ou plus difficiles à quantifier: qualité de service, résilience, agilité, expérience utilisateur, capacité d’innovation ? Ce sont précisément ces questions qui seront au cœur de notre rencontre: une discussion ouverte entre pairs, ancrée dans la réalité du terrain, pas pour débattre de modèles idéaux, mais pour comprendre comment chacun tente, concrètement, de mesurer, d’attribuer et de reprendre le contrôle, sans réduire la valeur d’un choix technologique à son seul coût.

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Adoption success. New contact centre solution for an insurance company

Transforming user experience and bringing faster business results with our trusted user adoption services.

Overview
To fully launch and embrace their new technology, a large multinational bank needed our help with the rollout of a new cloud contact centre solution. They needed someone who understood their business, as well as their people, to deliver a highly tailored programme globally– which is easier said than done.

The challenge
The customer needed to upgrade their voice contact centre solution globally, while also looking for significant cost savings. But against the backdrop of the pandemic, they also needed to foster a culture shift towards hybrid working. The scale and scope of this task posed quite a significant challenge.
To ensure a smooth migration process, we needed to dedicate time and resources to our planning and discovery stages. This enabled us to understand the impact of the new solution on the company’s people and carefully plan how we’d deliver a programme with centralised IT whilst meeting the requirements of the local countries – all with different needs. The priority was to deliver an education and training programme which would drive the change and rapid adoption needed of the new service.

Due to their sheer global scale, the biggest challenge for this customer was managing the migration and user experience globally. They operate with local, regional IT and office leads who had the influence and power to drive the progress of the rollout. But you can’t just go to the end-user as every local site has its own power capabilities. We needed to identify the end-user changes across all global and regional business units and provide recommendations based on the volume of the sites to ensure efficiency.

Like any new enterprise cloud service, the user adoption programme also needed to drive the right behaviour change amongst end-users by educating them on the ‘why to use’ and ‘how to use’. This also needed to extend beyond end-users - building the value proposition for the country leads was equally as important as they influenced the end-users within their region.

BT’s user adoption team were a pleasure to work with. I appreciated their responsiveness and thoroughness with our end user communications… I also appreciated the support the user adoption team provided me in sorting out technical questions and issues that impacted our end user communications.”

Head of change integration management

The solution
Providing sound advice through experience and expertise
A successful transformation isn’t just about the technology readiness; people readiness is equally important. We outlined the right user adoption support approach to optimise the onboarding process. There was a constant pipeline of consultancy support and advice, something that’s second nature to our dedicated user adoption team.

Firstly, our specialist ran a two-day workshop with all the relevant stakeholders. We needed to understand and recommend the right user adoption programme. This included understanding where people were based, how many users there would be and how this would be adopted. It was key that decisions were carefully made in each of the business units across many different countries, and whether to ‘train the trainer’ or adopt a ‘train-all’ approach, as well as determining whether to run face-to-face or remote training – so we provided a range of options for the customer and recommended on a site-by-site basis. With a central IT team, adapting to their various needs and views was critical to the outcome

The preference was to use a ‘train the trainer’ approach and on-site in some regions. However, with the global pandemic onsite training plans had to be delivered remotely at short notice. With our depth and breadth of experience allowing us to accommodate the changes to the new approach successfully.

We managed to deliver an extensive virtual training programme to onboard users, with a bespoke approach for each business unit. This included live virtual training sessions and recorded sessions for agents, supervisors and administrators. This enabled smooth migration to the sites. Once users had a chance to use the features, we also delivered refresher training sessions and extra sessions on reporting for supervisors.

On-demand learning was key and therefore we built an e-learning site with tailored user guides and short videos based on their configuration and use cases. Our experts had access to the client’s platform to allow them to be fully tailored for example with the correct screenshots.

But it didn’t stop there. We continuously captured feedback to improve the programme delivery and ensure each region received a high quality of training and support. To provide additional language help, we translated our guides into French, German and Italian which was key to success.

The result
We successfully delivered a user adoption programme to onboard users, seamlessly integrating new solutions which improved the working lives of employees. Our extensive training programme had a bespoke approach for each business unit which was committed to creating a continuous learning culture and improving the user’s skillset.

Critically, we supported the customer through the unexpected – a workforce shifting to homeworking, with no disruption to business operations. We delivered the support according to our plan, deadlines, and the overall business strategy and the customer is on track to achieving their aspired cost savings. We also received very positive feedback from both decision makers and users.

As a result of the successful migration to the new platform, the organisation is working with us on other cloud collaboration and communications rollouts. As a trusted partner we have demonstrated we not only provide the technology but also the right support for people readiness with our user adoption service.

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