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Amplifying your Company’s Brand with Customer Service – Series 1

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“Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations” – John Jantsch, Marketing consultant, and Speaker

Customer expectations are at an all-time high, and they are only turning to those that can meet all of their needs, listen to their concerns, address them, and give the best possible outcome. If you are unable to accomplish so, you are already eliminated from the competition. When service and experience are what create a brand, the inherent risk for firms today is not fulfilling rising customer expectations.

There are a variety of tools and resources available to help you generate business results and achieve success faster. A functional and user-friendly support portal can help you stay connected, provide smooth interactions, and customise your support experience.

Personalization and technology go hand in hand! Although we are relying on technology in every element of our lives to propel us ahead, we cannot ignore the marketing components of our businesses. Personalization of services based on the needs of the consumer is also critical.

While organisations in the same industry compete, the focus of these enterprises should be on providing the greatest client experience. Although businesses all around the world have already hopped on board, you can’t afford to fall behind by failing to fulfill client expectations. This entails minimising redundancy in your end-to-end client experience, using current technologies like AI and Machine Learning, being more personalised, and being more adaptable. With all of this in place, you can outperform your competition, build client loyalty, and increase profitability!

Join The Economic Times Virtual Round Table discussion on the theme Amplifying your Company’s Brand with Customer Service, to hear from industry experts on how customer expectations are shifting, variables impacting customer experiences, and how organisations can assure success by leveraging a powerful approach, emerging tools, and technology to shape the future of customer experience.


Speakers

Aneet Chaku
Head, Customer Service (Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa)
Apollo Tyres

Ashwani Nandini
Senior Vice President and Head of Delivery Assurance
GlobalLogic

Ashwani Nandini, Senior Vice President and Head of Delivery Assurance, GlobalLogic

With over two decades of experience in IT, product development services and delivery, A Nandini leads Delivery Assurance for GlobalLogic India. With over 6500 engineers spread across 5 locations, India is the largest delivery centre for GlobalLogic worldwide.

In her role as the Senior Vice President – Delivery Assurance, Nandini is responsible for ensuring partner delight right from engagement inception to closure. Nandini is responsible for bringing global delivery capabilities built on skills, scale, and cost effectiveness. Her diverse experience in managing the entire product development life cycle with a strong sense of quality commitment ensures white box quality, right project tools, design and architecture elements clubbed with the right processes.

Leveraging her decades of delivery experience, Nandini coaches project and program managers on delivering the right product on time with success parameters well defined and delivered. She plays an instrumental role in GlobalLogic’s pre-sales process and has extensive experience in ramping up large engineering labs. As a result of her management skills, Nandini’s teams have demonstrated consistent growth and have received accolades across multiple markets.

During her career at GlobalLogic, she has established Noida as an excellence centre for Big Data, Analytics, Cloud and Mobile technologies and she has grown the company’s business across ecommerce and Telecom verticals. Nandini has also nurtured the Noida design group, which plays a pivotal role in designled engineering. Nandini has won multiple CEO Awards for sales support and leadership excellence. She is also actively involved in global strategy initiatives, from organizing proof-of-concept contests as part of GlobalLogic’s Innovation Seeding Group (an employee idea incubator) to managing the delivery talent pipeline for the company’s thirteen global engineering centers.

Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Nandini held various engineering and business management positions with technology companies such as Interra Information Technologies and Tata Unisys (now Tata Consultancy Services). While at Interra, she established the company’s mobile competency and enterprise application integration. She also played a vital role in its ISO and CMM Level 5 certification processes.

A topper at Delhi University, Nandini pursued her B.Sc. in Mathematics and later pursued her MCA from Delhi University. Nandini is a frequent speaker with the media and is the Co-Chair at the NASSCOM NRC (Northern Regional Council) and an active member of the Tech SIG (Special Interest Group) at NASSCOM.

For more information reach out to: Ruchi Mahna Chowdhury
Corporate Communications India
ruchi.chowdhury@globallogic.com

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Anish Ahuja
Vice President – Service
Whirlpool of India

Anish Ahuja, Vice President - Service at Whirlpool of India

Anish Ahuja is the Vice President – Consumer Service at Whirlpool of India Ltd. He has been credited with deep structural changes revolving around and within the Service function to match the ever-evolving customer’s demands and mirroring the sweeping impact of technology in customer directed operations. He has driven his team to bring in unparalleled focus in ensuring enduring service quality outcomes by focussing on branded service as well as architecture, policies and processes which ensure a differentiated last-mile consumer connect. With over 23 years of experience in an extremely competitive industry, he had added value to the organisation in the various roles and diversified responsibilities. He has handled operations ranging from supply chain & consumer service in the back-end and, also front-end sales in diverse and discerning geographies ranging from Australia, Oceania to India.

As a customer advocate within the organisation and reflective of his holistic strategic mindset he has formalised sustainable and successful inter-functional connect so as to improve the customer facing outcomes.  His passion for consumers coupled with his extensive knowledge of consumer insights, systems & process, service delivery networks, call centre, technology makes him the go-to person within the home appliance industry. He is a speaker of note and is often invited to share his deep experiential knowledge at various industry forums and platforms and, is known to be an extremely well respected voice in the consumer electronics industry

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Kunal Anand
Chief Operations and Customer Services Officer
Aviva Life Insurance Co India

Kunal Anand, Chief Operations and Customer Services Officer, Aviva Life Insurance Co India

Kunal Anand is Chief Operations and Customer Services Officer of Aviva India. He is also managing administration function and also provides leadership oversight to Information and Technology function. He brings to the table experience of over 28 years in Insurance and Pension business, gained internationally, in the UK, and within India. Kunal has been with Aviva since November, 2004 and was instrumental in setting up the Bancassurance business at Aviva India. During his stint with Bancassurance, he has provided strategic leadership to the Banca business, managing all the key partnerships for Aviva India.
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Kushagra Goswami
Senior Solution Specialist – Customer workflows
ServiceNow

Rajesh C
Head Customer Service Planning & Strategies, GM
LG India

Sanjay Singal
COO
ITC

Sanjay Singal, COO, ITC

Sanjay Singal is the Chief Operating Officer for ITC’s  Dairy & Beverages business. In this role, he handles the P&L for the business encompassing all aspects including R&D,  Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales and  Operations. Prior to that, he was Head of Marketing for the Foods business of Dabur India Limited handling brands like Real Fruit Juices. In a career spanning nearly 25 years, he has handled senior P&L responsibilities and Functional leadership in Marketing and Sales for Personal Care and Foods businesses in India and abroad.

Sanjay started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited in 1995, after completing his MBA from IIM Bangalore. At Unilever. he handled various responsibilities across Sales & Marketing for over 11 years in India and overseas on brands like Fair & Lovely and Dove with Asia responsibilities. Post that, he joined Yum Restaurants International as Senior Marketing Manager where he handled the ‘Pizza Hut’ brand for South Asia from 2005 to 2007.

Sanjay is associated actively with various Industry associations like Indian Beverage Association and Indian Dairy Association.

At ITC, Sanjay has led the entry of ITC into Dairy category with the launch of Fresh Dairy and Dairy Beverage businesses. He is also a member of the Divisional Management Committee of ITC Foods.

He is based in Bangalore. His wife is an artist and homemaker, his Son is pursuing Undergrad course in US and daughter is in school.

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V R Sharma
MD
Jindal Steel & Power

TK Arun
Senior Editor & Journalist
Moderator


Agenda

03:00 – 03:05 PM Welcome Address by ET Edge
03:05 – 04:00 PM Round table discussion: Amplifying your Company’s Brand with Customer Service

A company is successful when it has loyal customers that keep coming back despite the competing brands trying to lure them. What keeps these customers coming back to these businesses, and how do these brands earn customer loyalty? This session will focus on the customer services that businesses must provide in order to stay ahead of the competition in these fast-paced times, as well as the technology that will influence the future of customer experience.

Indicative talk points:

·         Ways to provide innovative technology and services to customers

·         Meeting customer expectations for a frictionless experience

·         Ways to reward customers for their loyalty

·         How to improve operational productivity

·         Empowering customer service team

·         Technology Adoption Vs. Personalisation

04:00 – 04:05 PM Closing Address by ET Edge

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