Florida Department of Revenue Customer Spotlight

Citizen Complaint Tracking Leads to Surprising Results

Objectives

  • Resolve complaints from citizens and internal customers
  • Resolve complaints in a timely manner
  • Track complaint trends through data analysis and report to process owners
  • Provide feedback on complaints and resolutions to complainants

Solution

  • Selected Everest - Customer Focused Quality™ software enabling the Department to meet or exceed the requirements of The Florida Customer Service Standards Act
  • Reporting and charting provides feedback to process managers so that operational procedures can be adjusted to insure continuous improvement
  • Tracks performance accountability measures (PAMs), delivering real-time analysis of this data used to monitor key performance metrics
  • Helps the Department to identify work bottlenecks and re-allocate resources

Results

  • A favorable increase in the accuracy of billing and/or delinquency notices issued to the taxpayers
  • A favorable decrease in the amount of time to issue notices to the taxpayers regarding filing errors or late returns
  • Average number of days to resolution exceeds APQC best in class target of 30 days
  • A savings of $839,592.37 derived from corrective actions
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