IEG4 Insights

Taking Service Directories Mainstream

Posted by Paul Tomlinson on Oct 18, 2019 1:53:21 PM

We have our efforts upside down

In a thought-provoking lecture, entitled ‘Social Services Are Broken. How Can We Fix Them?’, Hilary Cottam stated that around £250,000 is spent each year, on each of around 100,000 families within the UK.  However, she highlighted that the £250,000 is not spent on the families themselves, but instead on the cost of running the support systems which have built-up around them.

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Topics: digital transformation, software, onevu, channel shift, customerengagement, citizenaccess

Keeping Customers in the Loop

Posted by John McMahon on Oct 18, 2019 10:50:38 AM

Keeping people digitally informed about services and providing them with the means to access these services, creates value for those organisations who do it well. It also creates the much-needed pull to encourage customers to keep returning to digital and to reinforce the digital channel as the preferred choice for interactions.

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Topics: digital transformation, software, onevu, channel shift, customerengagement, citizenaccess

Opening doors and unlocking the potential of better customer service

Posted by Jackie Gill on Oct 4, 2019 9:57:26 AM

Imagine, as a local authority citizen, walking down a corridor where each door relates to a page shown every time a hyperlink is clicked, that potentially leads you to the information you require.

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Topics: digital local government, digital transformation, software, personalisation, onevu, channel shift, citizenaccess

Because Councils are Different: Blue Badge Flexible Workflow & No Code

Posted by Marcus Devaney on Oct 3, 2019 9:31:40 AM

A modern Blue Badge solution for a new era of Blue Badge processing.

The new GOV.UK Blue Badge system offers an effective central hub for applicants to request Blue Badges online.  It is clear and easy to use but it only goes so far.  Once the application is made centrally, without a well-designed local solution, it can disappear from the applicant’s view, leading to frustration and calls into their local council.

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Topics: digital transformation, software, blue badge, hidden disabilities, channel shift

Prevention, Orchestration, Automation

Posted by John Fawcett on Sep 20, 2019 3:44:33 PM

In the summer of 2014, a ground-breaking thing happened. 

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Topics: digital local government, benefits, digital transformation, software, revenues, service design, channel shift

Blue Badge Administration - Bespoke Solutions from Standard Software

Posted by Marcus Devaney on Aug 29, 2019 5:00:44 PM

In this series of blogs, Marcus Devaney looks at recent developments in Blue Badge processing and covers how IEG4’s revolutionary digital Blue Badge solution, as implemented in Kent County Council and Surrey County Council, supports individual organisational approaches to Blue Badge administration and puts them in control of continuous improvement. IEG4’s solution for Blue Badge delivers superior customer service and helps councils save money. 

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Topics: digital transformation, software, blue badge, hidden disabilities, channel shift

Closing the digital loop

Posted by Andrew Cope on Aug 19, 2019 2:39:13 PM

One of the joys of working in product management is solving problems; particularly tricky ones. The challenge presented to us by the Digital Manager at 3C Shared Services*, Joe Bedingfield, was to enable his team to be able to:

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Topics: digital local government, digital transformation, software, onevu, edesigner, channel shift

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