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SBERBANK
170 YEARS. BY YOUR SIDE
ANNUAL REPORT
2011
IMPROVING PRODUCT AND SERVICE QUALITY
In 2011, building on approaches from the Ideas Exchange system, we
implemented a project unique to Russia that used crowdsourcing to
identify future development paths for the Bank. Over 120,000 peo-
ple from Russia and 78 other countries took part in the Sberbank
21 project.
Jointly with our partners Professionali.ru, WikiVote! and Witology we
received a huge number of ideas and suggestions. The best sugges-
tions were selected by project participants themselves. 15 winning
projects were selected and 3 reports were prepared. These reports
were:
- Sberbank 21: Future
- Russia 21: Progress
- Innovation 21: Crowdsourcing.
The projects and reports were presented by the winners at an inter-
national finance conference held in honour of the Bank's 170th an-
niversary. Project materials will be used in the preparation of a new
Sberbank development strategy.
170 YEARS. IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING
INTERVIEW
Alexander Torbakhov
Member and Deputy Chairman
of the Management Board
>> We pay particular attention to service
quality indicators. One such indicator is the
amount of time customers spent waiting in
queues in Bank outlets. Sberbank has invested
a significant sum in a system of measures
aimed at reducing waiting time
Special equipment has been installed at many of our outlets to mea-
sure, and by the end of 2011, to manage queue waiting time. According
to our data, the percentage of customers queuing for over 15 minutes
decreased to 13%. By the end of 2012, we plan to substantially improve
this indicator: for 90% of our customers, waiting time will not exceed
10 minutes.
In order to address the issue of queues in the most effective and ef-
ficient manner, we are changing traditional service models. We ac-
tively encourage customers who have traditionally been using paper
bankbooks to switch to card-based services as part of the Social Card
project. Customers lose nothing by switching to the new service and
in fact they gain access to a broad range of retail banking services in
addition to traditional cash deposits and withdrawals. Our concerns
that elderly customers may find it inconvenient to use plastic cards
proved wrong only 2% of customers within this age group refuse
to use a card. In 2012, we plan to continue expanding the age range of
customers serviced through the Social Card project.
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