Global Concepts

2008 December Implementations & Service Executives Roundtable

December 10 - 11
Download the Agenda Here
Registration Deadline: 12/1/2008
Dress Code: Business Casual

The Grand Hyatt Atlanta
3300 Peachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
404-237-1234
$199 per night (room block listed under The Cash Management Forum)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: 11/18/2008

Wednesday
Lunch
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Description: Please join Global Concepts for lunch at the hotel prior to the start of the Roundtable.
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Opening Remarks: Introduction to the Implementations & Service Executives Roundtable
Time: 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Meredith Baum, Roundtable Manager, Global Concepts
Description: Baum will open the 2008 Implementations and Service Executives Roundtable with a few remarks and a brief round of introductions.
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Implementations and Service: What Your Customers Think
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Speakers: Debbie Mickle, Treasurer, Cullman Regional Medical center
Jennifer Solomon, Director, Cash Management, HealthSouth
Debbie McSheffrey, Treasurer, Premiere Global Services, Inc.
Matt Ribbens, Moderator, Expert, Global Concepts
Description: This panel presents the opportunity to hear from a sample of upper middle-market clients.  The panelists will discuss both pain points and opportunities they see for banks regarding both their implementations process and customer service experience.  The panel will offer their feedback on particularly difficult challenges with product implementations and opinions on self-service options.  Ribbens will moderate the panel in order to promote conversation around the implementation process from the corporate point-of-view.
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Streamlining the Implementations Process
Time: 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Daniel Behanna, Vice President & Manager, Implementation Improvement Process, PNC Bank
Description: Through innovation, PNC continually strives to streamline the implementations process.  Behanna will address several different innovations at PNC including new documentation initiatives and eForms. Behanna will discuss the process behind moving initiatives through the organization, getting colleague and client buy-in and anticipating and alleviating roadblocks.
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Building a National Implementations Team
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker: Donna Berger, Senior Vice President, Treasury Management Relationship Services, Comerica
Description: Standardize!  Standardize!  Standardize! As an industry, we preach standardization as a tool to measure processes and create a consistent experience.  Berger will discuss Comerica's efforts to standardize the implementations process and practices by reorganizing their Relationship Services group, inclusive of implementations and customer service, from regionally-based to nationally based.  Berger will address how this change affected the implementations and service groups as a whole, new measurement practices devised and the challenges they faced along the way.
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Dinner
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Description:

Please joing Global Concepts for dinner.

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Thursday
Continental Breakfast
Time: 7:30 AM - 8:15 AM
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Welcome & Annoucements
Time: 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Speaker: Meredith Baum, Roundtable Manager, Global Concepts
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Good to Great: The Evolution of the Commercial Support Center
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Speaker: Nancy Kinman, Vice President, Fifth Third
Description: In this presentation, we will discuss the evolution of the commercial support center from a fragmented environment to a cohesive, connected environment to serve clients more efficiently. Service is the most important part of a clients experience with a bank.  If this is a great experience, the bank can win a relationship for many years to come.  If it’s a bad experience, the relationship may never be as profitable as it could be and may wind up becoming a competitor’s client.
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Designing a "Best-in-Class" Implementations Survey
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Speaker: Meredith Baum, Roundtable Manager, Global Concepts
Description: Surveying clients is one of the most important feedback opportunity banks possess.  Capturing client responses in order to make important decisions is essential to banks.  Baum will discuss post-implementation surveying techniques inclusive of information gathering, questions asked and survey organization.
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Client Training: How to Deliver with Impact
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Speaker: Arun Bali, Director, Global Client Delivery Segmentation Head, Citigroup
Description: Phone and web and in-person—Oh My!  With banks beginning to extend past their physical footprint, everyone is looking for the Emerald Village of client training.  What is the best, most effective way to train a client?  How do you disseminate information for re-training?  How do you avoid the brain-drain when clients leave their positions?  Bali will discuss Citi’s most effective client training methods along with challenges and opportunities that have been presented.
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Closing Remarks and Planning for the WebEx in March 2009
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM
Speaker: Meredith Baum, Roundtable Manager, Global Concepts
Description: Baum will open the floor to final comments and discussion on member-suggested topics for future research and presentations.  She will conclude the meeting with a…gift certificate drawing!  Global Concepts will draw two names at random and award each winner a gift certificate.  You must be present to win.
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For More Information, Please Contact:

Meredith Baum, Senior Analyst
678-221-2303
meredith_baum@mckinsey.com