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Establishing a Strong Digital Foundation for Yorkshire Building Society with Process Re-engineering & RPA

Read | Mar 08, 2023

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A WNS Perspective

Key Points

Banking and financial services organizations have been at the forefront of digital transformation. The success rate, however, has been uneven. Digital transformation discussions are often hijacked by conversations around the latest technologies and ignore the building blocks on which these technologies must rest. Moreover, initiatives that are not rooted in the organizational vision and that lack a well-thought-out framework are likely to miss their goals.

Yorkshire Building Society, a 150-year-old organization based in the UK, took measured steps to embrace digital as a way to reaffirm its commitment to its core businesses of mortgage and savings. The challenging market conditions, largely owing to disruptions caused by FinTechs, led Yorkshire Building Society on this path. High dependence on paper-based processes made the business slow, adding unnecessary layers of complexity.

Yorkshire Building Society wanted to inject agility and efficiency into its operations with digitization and process automation and lay the groundwork for transformation. The Yorkshire Building Society story shows how a deep understanding of business challenges must influence the choice of technology and the approach to transformation. A successful framework must be structured around the critical building blocks and leverage the interplay of technology with process, people and culture to create cumulative outcomes.

Here are a few takeaways from the case study:

  • Customer, and not technology, should be placed at the heart of digital transformation.

  • Business process re-engineering and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) must go hand in hand for greater outcomes.

  • Small step changes can become a force multiplier as processes are automated and the foundation for speed and agility is established.

READ the detailed case study published in the Journal of Digital Banking.

Yorkshire Building Society’s Process Automation Manager, Jessica Lockwood, shares how WNS’ differentiated capabilities in automation helped the 150-year-old organization build digital operations and transform its CX.

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