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RSA Group: The Complaints Handling Integration Project (CHIP)

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Company Size
1,000+
Region
  • Europe
Country
  • United Kingdom
Product
  • Aptean Respond
Tech Stack
  • Complaints Management System
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
  • Finance & Insurance
Services
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
RSA is one of the world’s leading multi-national insurance groups with a 300-year heritage. They employ 19,000 people, serving 17 million customers in over 140 countries. RSA's goal was to make itself the market leader within complaints handling by restructuring the teams involved, changing the accepted norms and giving their staff the right software to get the job done. RSA implemented what was known as The Complaints Handling Integration Project (CHIP), a full scale review of RSA’s complaints handling at a root and branch level. This consisted of three separate parts: People, Processes and Technology.
The Challenge
In 2012, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK announced that it would hand over its powers to a new regulatory body in the Financial Sector - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). With stricter regulations surrounding complaints management on the way, RSA used the opportunity to overhaul their Customer Relations function. The goal was to make RSA the market leader within complaints handling by restructuring the teams involved, changing the accepted norms and giving their staff the right software to get the job done. RSA implemented what was known as The Complaints Handling Integration Project (CHIP), a full scale review of RSA’s complaints handling at a root and branch level. This consisted of three separate parts: People, Processes and Technology. While reviewing people and processes, RSA re-designed how they handled complaints to comply with the new regulations, and also to comply with their own internal best practice system.
The Solution
RSA made a step change to their customer services team. Previously, 600 staff worked with complaints as part of their day to day duties. This meant their attention was not focused on providing the equivalent service of a complaints specialists. Fast forward to the current day and 60 members of staff have been trained to specifically handle and work within complaints, without dilution into regular customer service issues. To support the new team and their new structure, and to underpin the CHIP project as a whole, a key part of the programme was to replace RSA’s ageing and restricted complaints handling system with specialist technology fit for the purpose of complaints management. RSA needed a modern system which would help them to comply with regulations and to introduce efficient, flexible and comprehensive complaints handling as a norm. Aptean’s Respond clearly stood out from the competition after a visit to another insurance company. RSA were able to see Respond in action, outside of Aptean’s control, confirming that Respond would deliver exactly what they needed.
Operational Impact
  • RSA has seen multiple benefits since implementing Aptean’s Respond. Previously, management spent too long running reports and generating charts, time needed for running the business not manually completing processes.
  • The level of monitoring provided by real time MI means that reaction times have improved and the in-depth data analysis functionality has been of great assistance in driving action within the business, especially for RSA’s dedicated MI & Performance Team, who make sure they are working well within FCA regulations.
  • Respond’s ability to reallocate cases in bulk became a saviour for RSA during a period of extremely bad winter weather. Members of the complaints team had difficulty getting into work and without this feature their individual case-loads would have been difficult to hand over.
  • Thanks to the ability to reallocate in bulk, RSA ensured that no case ran past its allocated time and overall case-loads continued to roll over efficiently with speed.
  • The system RSA had been using before Aptean’s Respond became unreliable and experienced regular down time. Since launch, Respond has been constantly available and this has reduced lost hours compared to when staff were previously unable to access the system, saving money in the process.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 60 members of staff have been trained to specifically handle and work within complaints, without dilution into regular customer service issues.
  • Aptean’s Respond has helped RSA to keep their customers at the heart of their business.
  • Respond has been constantly available and this has reduced lost hours compared to when staff were previously unable to access the system, saving money in the process.

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