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Accenture to Augment Customer Service Levels of South West Water
By Big4.com Staff Writers
Under a 10-year contract between Accenture and South West Water, Accenture will
increase the billing and customer care services, as well as manage the
back-office functions of South West Water. As per the new contract, Accenture
will facilitate South West Water to augment its workforce performance, business
process and technology in order to enhance the level of service for its client
base in Cornwall, Devon and some areas of Somerset and Dorset counties in U.K.
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South West Water shall leverage applications and assets, training methods and
process models developed by the Accenture Utilities BPO Services. It also
offers same type of services to several utility clients in the United Kingdom
and North America. Monica Read, the customer service director of South West
Water said, "We are delighted to have chosen a partner whose strategic
objectives to deliver high-quality, cost-efficient customer services and
collections align so closely with our own Pure Service objectives." She further
said that they believe collaboration with Accenture would certainly deliver
better consumer experience.
Keith Mueller, the managing director of Accenture Utilities BPO Services, said
that South West Water is taking steps to innovate, seek and modernize the most
successful means to deliver good services to the clients. He further said that
they will create a United Kingdom showcase of the technology, process and
performance models that Accenture Utilities BPO Services has developed over the
past years along with utility businesses all over the world. Accenture will
undertake phased transition of the collections of South West Water in the
coming ten weeks.
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