In the first of three articles accompanying our recent series of BrightTalk webinars, Ian Curling, Service Modernisation Lead at Capita Life and Pensions, looks at changing models of customer service provision in the life and pensions sector.

Capita Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the assessment provider for the Department for Work and Pensions in England and Wales and for the Social Security Agency (SSA) in Northern Ireland, assessing over 200,000 PIP claimants every year.

While technology offers many opportunities in the quest to deliver a more proactive and efficient customer experience, it’s the human interactions between brands and their customers that often make the difference, writes Oli Freestone, Institute Lead at Capita.

Developments around Open Banking bring exciting opportunities for the industry and consumers, but we must ensure they drive a step change in the customer experience, not just a technology change, writes Pete O’Connor, Managing Director of Capita Mortgage Software Solutions.

The technology for a connected country is here. In fact, we’re already putting it to work across Scotland – in healthcare, education, local authorities and beyond. Watch the video to see how Capita is accelerating Scotland’s digital and climate ambitions to make a real difference to people’s lives.

Since 2011, Capita has partnered with The Pensions Regulator to deliver automatic enrolment, employing 150 staff and operating a multi-channel customer contact centre to deliver direct communications to every employer in the UK. As a result, saving for a pension has become the norm, with 22.9 million people now saving into a workplace pension.

At a recent roundtable in partnership with Wired, Doug Brown, Head of Data, Cyber and AI Guild and Chief Data Scientist of Capita Consulting, was joined by Lisa Talia Moretti, a digital sociologist at the Ministry of Justice; Reid Darby, innovation lead at Golden Valley Development in Cheltenham; Carly Kind, Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute and Tavi Kotka, an engineer/entrepreneur and former Chief Information Officer for the Estonian government to discuss data, identity and the digital citizen.