Customers

Project Iris - phase 5

To improve the customer contact experience and enhance UK Power Networks' ability to update customers during a power cut.

Key deliverables

  • Enable email notifications during outages
  • Enhance IVR journey and customer identification
  • Increase safety information and proactive contact options

Target outcomes

  • Improve customer contact and satisfaction
  • Enable self-service and timely information delivery

Measures of success

  • Improved contact for customers where we do not have a phone number
  • Improved customer satisfaction and speed of response
  • Provide the customer with the ability to self serve and ensure they have all the relevant information
  • Improved contact rate with customers and improve customer satisfaction
  • Deliver a solution to enable navigation and speed of connection or information to customers

Stakeholder Engagement

Held internal workshops with staff, reviewed customer feed back and customer satisfaction scores.

Timeline

Planned start:
01.01.2024
Target completion:
12.01.2026

Status

On Track

Milestones

  • Enable the ability to send emails to Unplanned or Planned Power cuts (Jan 25)
  • Increase information provided to the customer in the IVR (Jan 25)
  • Enhance the speed of contact for customers during a power cut notification (Jan 26)
  • Identify Customers based on their journey in the IVR (Jan 26)
  • Enhance the IVR journey with increased contact journey options (Jan 26)

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