Bruce Dobson is the Director Customer Experience and Business Transformation at the City of Boroondara. He is leading a revolutionary $129M customer experience and business transformation strategy at this local government. This transformation will reconstruct every customer touchpoint and operation over a 15 year period to truly focus on customer centricity. And on this episode, Bruce walks us through the $129M program in detail, the challenges they've had implementing it so far, and how they plan to return $182M in savings as a result of implementing the business case.
Resources mentioned:
Leadership books by Patrick Lencioni (author) The Boroondara Customer First Program — overview (article) The Boroondara Customer First Program — business case (document) Michael Momsen (LinkedIn) Adam Jaffrey (LinkedIn)
Key takeaways (starts at 33:40):
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