Lesley Cowley Chief Executive The Management Challenges as a Registry grows.

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Lesley Cowley Chief Executive The Management Challenges as a Registry grows

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Lesley Cowley

Chief Executive

The Management Challenges as a Registry grows

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The Management Challenges

• People

• Performance

• Plans

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6 Years at .uk

• People – from 28 to 135

• Performance - from 25,000 to 4,000,000+ domains

• Plans from - ‘what plan?’ to strategy and action plans

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People – The Management Challenge

• Changing jobs and skills

• Cultural change

• Getting the right people on the bus!

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People – Some things we have learnt

• Monthly team briefing and staff communication

• Annual staff meeting

• Training to meet business objectives

• People policies, systems and strategies

• Pay, benefits, recognition, praise, fun

• Nominet UK – voted one of the Top 100 UK

Companies to work for

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Performance – The Management Challenges

• Process design

• Deciding what to measure

• How to report performance

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Performance – Some things we have learnt

• What gets measured usually gets done

• Measure the right things – link to business objectives

• A focus on key performance indicators misses strategic things

• Balanced Scorecard approach can be effective

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Balanced Scorecard

Customer Perspective Financial Measures

Internal Business Processes

Learning and Growth

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Nominet Balanced Scorecard

Customer

Strategic: e.g. service excellence

K.P.I. e.g. 90% of tag changes within 2 days

Financial

Strategic: e.g. sufficient resources

K.P.I. e.g. Debtor days 30 or below

Technical

Strategic: e.g. technical excellence

K.P.I. e.g. automaton processing time 120 secs

Learning and Growth

Strategic: e.g. Resource capability

K.P.I. e.g. Ave. 3 training days/year for all staff

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Plans – The Management Challenge

• Developing our strategy

• Taking a longer-term view

• Communication of plans

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Plans – Some things we have learnt

• Strategy development is an ongoing process, not an annual event

• Develop strategy top down and bottom up

• Link initiatives and changes back to the plans

• Take people and staff with you by communication

• Plan on a Page

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Nominet on a Page

Who we are:

(Background)

Our Strategic Priorities

(Business Plan)

What we are here for

(Mission)

What these strategies will mean

(How they effect our stakeholders)

How we work

(Values)

Where we are going

(Vision)

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Nominet on a Page – Extract

Our Strategic Priorities

• Developing Nominet into a centre of service excellence

What this will mean

• A consistently high standard of customer service

• Real support from a real person giving a personalised service

• Fast response times

• Extended support availability and channels

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In Conclusion

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