Community Newspaper Group

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Vision

To enable community print media to continue to command a loyal readership, the processes and systems that sustain it must be technically agile and cost effective.  

Classified advertising, an essential piece of the connective tissue binding readers to their local paper, is a particular case in point.  

CNG needed to modernise longstanding manual business processes and transform their Classifieds Call Centre.  

This vision, driven by their CEO, also aligned with parent company Seven West Media’s intention ‘to bring together technology, IT and technical services to systematically transition to digital workflows, asset management and new cloud solutions.’

Traction

The project called for a complete IS redesign that meshed new skillsets and processes with the technologies essential to realising the CEO’s strategic goals.  

We partnered with the CNG team to paint a visionary plan for a new platform, which would meet the needs of this rapidly changing business. Then we selected best-in-class technologies and vendors with demonstrable track records in comparable projects, including: AlphaWest, Telstra and AMCOM.  

• Next we choreographed the complete systems renewal including:  
• Local and wide area networks 
• Compute and storage platforms 
• racle Financials upgrade 
• Cisco Call Centre solution 

Finally we advised on cloud hosting and unified communications options.

Results

This transformational program brought IT out of the ‘back office’ at CNG and enhanced both staff and customer satisfaction by:  

• Streamlining and speeding up internal communications 
• Increasing the availability of Call Centre staff and reducing response times for customers 
• Building advertising revenue via the rapid and easy integration of new digital media products 

It also delivered significant, sustainable value by building organisational trust and confidence in technology as a catalyst for future innovation and change.