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Operational Excellence for Service and Contact Centre Operations

Lean and quality tools are often seen as factory methods, yet African service businesses and contact centres carry just as much waste in their processes. This course adapts operational excellence to service settings, tackling handovers, waiting, rework, and variation in customer facing work. Participants learn to map service flows, balance capacity to demand, and improve both speed and quality of service.

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What you will be able to do

  • Recognise the forms of waste specific to service processes.
  • Map a service process from the customer point of view.
  • Analyse demand patterns and match capacity to them.
  • Reduce handovers, delays, and rework in service work.
  • Design measures that balance speed, cost, and quality.
  • Sustain improvement through daily service management.

Course outline

  1. 01Waste in Service and Transactional Work
  2. 02Mapping the Service Flow
  3. 03Understanding Demand and Capacity
  4. 04Cutting Handovers and Delays
  5. 05Reducing Rework and Failure Demand
  6. 06Balanced Service Measures
  7. 07Daily Management in Service Teams

Who should attend

This course is intended for service managers, contact centre team leaders, operations staff, and improvement coordinators in banking, telecoms, government, and shared services.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 30 Sep 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Closed
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Oct 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
12 to 14 Oct 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
13 to 15 Oct 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Online3US$900Register
16 to 18 Nov 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
17 to 19 Nov 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
18 to 20 Nov 2026Durban3R13,000Register
23 to 25 Nov 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
24 to 26 Nov 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
25 to 27 Nov 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Maseru3US$1,500Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Dec 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
8 to 10 Dec 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Dec 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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