• Reduce the amount of avoidable citizen contact
  • Reduce the cost of processing all government correspondence
  • Cope with a reduced public sector workforce
  • Improve citizen service access

Directive NI14 targeted public services to reduce ‘avoidable contact’ with the public. Cutting the number of times a citizen needs to engage directly with public service workers can dramatically reduce the cost of delivery and also enable citizens to access services in different and more flexible ways 24x7x365. While NI14 has been consigned to the waste bin, the provision of automated streamlined citizen engagement is even more valid if it can reduce the number of front-line or back-office human resources and deliver savings.

Contact Centre solutions, Automated Document Handling and Citizen Portals, if delivered fit for purpose, provide automated access to services and increase the number of engagements possible with reduced numbers of people. Paying a council tax bill over an automated voice system or through a portal uses the same technology as paying a credit card bill. Enquiring about a planning application or any other in-process application can be automated, even down to capturing and automatically processing bills or correspondence. Simply automating bill payments can reduce transactional costs by up to 80 per cent.

Logicalis’ Streamlined Citizen Engagement Architecture enables the public sector to continue to deliver services while eliminating unnecessary or costly manual interaction or processes.

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