Co-creation, collaboration,
customer experience
Frontiers 2022 Highlights
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Co-creating the future
Our world is full of opportunity, but also of increasing threats. The customers and guest speakers at Frontiers 2022 have all found ways to come to terms with uncertainty and complexity: getting comfortable with the uncomfortable - and thriving. That means staying on top of emerging technologies, building a powerful network, and finding smarter ways to collaborate at scale. Technological advances aside, we're all wrestling with some fundamental questions. In a time of great disruption, how do we make work, work better? Join us for an exploration of hybrid working, customer experience, and smarter ways of responding to change.
We're aiming to give you confidence in the decisions you make, by bringing like-minded, passionate people together to connect the dots and co-create the future.
Feel connected

Managing the great return to work has been a challenge. We all proved that remote working is possible, but some things are better face-to-face. Re-thinking the office space is leading to new ways to collaborate. With a renewed focus on productivity, well-being and the environment, hybrid working is becoming more purposeful. So how do weturn "me space" into "we space"?

It's about feeling connected to your users, your colleagues, your team members, and your customers.'

Be brave

To survive the pandemic we had to go through the pain barrier and be agile. First, 40,000 calls had to be redirected to staff mobiles; then we had to lose 1,200 workers; then when we won government Restart and Covid testing contracts, we had to hire over 4000 people. We were brave and got lucky. We managed to reconfigure the business and deliver a digital workplace.

How can we reconfigure?
How can we rebuild?
How can we be brave?

Embrace change

Canvassing our top 20 customers ahead of Frontiers, I uncovered these priorities: making hybrid working work, addressing the climate emergency, winning at customer experience, and coping with the accelerating rate of change.

Through our privileged partner relationships with Microsoft and AWS, our own net zero infrastructure, the integration of Mission Labs (plus customer-inspired upgrades to Horizon Collaborate) and now through our expansion into Europe, we're primed and committed to help.

We can now help
with your pan
European operations

Define the problem

Online shopping exploded during the pandemic fueling 5 years growth in 5 weeks. Delivery drivers were Covid heroes, but post-pandemic parcel services don't get good press. We're working hard to build back trust.

There's a risk that if you try and fix everything with CX you won't fix anything. Not being able to get in touch is the key customer pain point, so we're building new systems that target those moments of stress. Work out what the problem is you're trying to solve before you invest in tech.

Focus on the
customer's biggest pain
points and fix them

Guest speaker

One tool that will prove to be pivotal in the future is AI, with more and more businesses adopting AI in simplifying the way they work. Internationally renowned expert in this field, Nina Schick, gave an insightful talk on the power of synthetic media and its potential to both harness our daily lives with personal assistants, or hinder them through 'fake news'.

Nina advocated for the adoption of a 'zero trust future', one in which everything in the information ecosystem 'can't be trusted until it's verified and authenticated.' As the world experiences a paradigm shift in the form of tech-led change, AI is the tipping point that will change the very framework of society on all levels.

Synopsis: Welcome to the 'Age of Dis-Information.' By 2030, 90% of video content will be synthetically generated by AI.

Explore a "Zero Trust Future" where nothing is trusted until validated, and safeguards are built into the digital ecosystem

Collaborate from anywhere

This is the order of priority when we work on collaboration projects. First understand the challenge, then the people involved, and finally, pick the most suitable technology.

Comms and collaboration have exciting possibilities as copper, the old generation of connectivity is switched off; and fibre, satellite and mobile, the next generation of connectivity is switched on.

Knowledge, people
and technology

"The keynotes were superb and it was great to hear the stories from some of your customers - genuine thought leadership that we can take back into our own companies."

- Customer feedback

Guest speaker

Rapid change puts leaders under pressure to deliver quality results; if your line of work consists of keeping the country safe, then that pressure is far more pressing. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller served as General Director of MI5 from 2002- 2007, discussing how to overcome the barriers of uncertainty while implementing change across all aspects of the agency.

Her session was one not to be missed, as she recounted numerous anecdotes on how MI5 adapted to the ever-changing landscape at home and abroad. Baroness Manningham-Buller promoted the need for leaders to listen to diverse opinions, learn from past mistakes, and even enjoy a moment to laugh when the stakes begin to rise.

Synopsis: Leaders have to make decisions without all the information and cope with that inherent pressure.

You won't get everything right but there is a difference between culpable failure, and failure where you did all the right things and it turned out to be wrong. When this inevitably happens, keeping faith in your people and the organisation is crucial

Helping organisations transform + thrive
We're aiming for a blend of cultures, people, platforms and processesthat builds the trust and understanding to co-create your future. More than ever, the network isthe business. We operate our own core network, allowing us to tailor your ideal user and customer experiences, at scale. We pair the network with Cloud platforms - Horizon (our own), Microsoft and Amazon Web Services - to create unified communications. and contact centre solutions. They deliver that shared vision for collaboration, hybrid working, and excellent customer experiences. In the end, it's aboutfeeling connectedto your users and colleagues, to your customers and citizens, to your suppliers and collaborators.
Delivering great CX

The economic road ahead will be bumpy, but the companies that put the customer at the heart of everything they do will flourish. The key to successful CX is to design the experience before you choose the technology.

Technology is
there to enrich CX,
not to dictate it

Connect with your customers

Amazon Connect is one of the most advanced contact centre platforms in the world. But like any complex software, it needs to be adapted to your customer needs. Mission Labs augment its capability to make your agents as successful as they can be.

Think big,
start small, go fast

Buy or build?
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