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Making every customer call count through more joined-up data

Making every customer call count through more joined-up data

Kieran Lewis reflects on a recent project to integrate multiple data sources into a single Customer Relationship Management interface, improving call centre efficiency and customer experience by saving time per call and allowing agents quicker access to relevant information, and with ongoing and further improvements still to come.

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Keeping guidance simple

Posted by: Padma Gillen, Posted on: 21 January 2015 - Categories: Defra content design, Defra digital

Defra’s Smarter Guidance programme aims to make it much easier for people to follow the regulations that affect them. After all, that’s what guidance is for.

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Changing the way we work

Posted by: Jetinder Sangha, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Defra digital

Welcome to the new Defra digital blog. This is the first post on what I hope will become the first port of call for anybody interested in what Defra is doing in digital.

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