PR Newswire | 13 Jun, 2014
BANGALORE, India and LONDON: Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company today announced that it has jointly won the Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation award for a successful engagement with its customer, TalkTalk Group, an UK-based telecom major. GTB is a leading European publication that covers the telecom industry and the GTB awards recognize some of the most innovative work being done around the world and projects that involve a telecom operator and a partner, working together.
Wipro along with TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, the UK's leading value provider of broadband, landline, TV and mobile services, were jointly recognized for their innovative partnership. This focused on churn management and reducing customer complaints. Wipro's in-house tool was used to help effectively manage high-risk customers. The partnership between Wipro and TTG helped TTG support an improvement in churn and reduce customer complaints through operational excellence and analytics used by Wipro.
"The GTB Innovation award is a great recognition for our 6-year partnership with TalkTalk Group (TTG). We are delighted that the project yielded positive business outcomes for TTG, such as improved the customer retention rates, in addition to a 10% increase in customer satisfaction." said Vinay Firake, Vice President and Global Head of Global Media & Telecom, Wipro BPO. He added, "This endorsement is an acknowledgment of Wipro BPO's concerted endeavors to offer vertical-specific solutions that align with industry needs and create measurable business value for our customers."
"Winning these awards is a great achievement. The Wipro in-house tool provided TTG the ability to really change the way we handle customer complaints. The tool provided great insights that really helped improve customer satisfaction, reduce churn and helped drive down Ofcom complaints", says Henel Patel, head of Service Excellence, TalkTalk
"Throughout the world the industry are creating such a wave, such a flood of innovation, that is making a real difference to business, to our economy and to the way we live," said GTB editor Alan Burkitt-Gray, presenting the awards. "This year we had more nominations than ever before. We run the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards to say well done to the men and women in the industry - operators and vendors alike - who are making such a difference to the world," he said. "Congratulations to this year's winners."
Wipro's end-to-end Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for Telecom players provides customers with domain experience in fixed and mobile telecommunications services, telecommunications equipment and publishing & media enablement. Wipro BPO's telecom experience spans across Fulfillment, Assurance and Billing processes as well as Enterprise Processes, enhancing customer experience.
About Wipro Ltd.
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business through Technology" - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering innovation, and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro has a workforce of 140,000 serving clients across 61 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.wipro.com.
About GTB Awards
Global Telecoms Business has been presenting the Innovation Awards annually since 2007. All awards are for projects that involve at least two companies - normally an operator and a vendor, sometimes more than one of each - to honour their collaboration in the most innovative projects in the industry today.
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