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Case Study - Cuckoo Broadband

Designing & Operating a Growth-Ready Customer Care Model

 

Cuckoo, a fast growing UK Broadband provider...

was formed through the consolidation of multiple legacy brands and had reached a critical inflection point in its growth journey. As scale increased, customer care emerged as a strategic priority, essential for protecting brand trust, meeting regulatory expectations, and sustaining long-term growth.

As part of this next phase, the organisation migrated to a modern utilities CRM platform, creating an opportunity not just to change systems, but to fundamentally re-architect how customer care operated.

The DDC Group was engaged as a long-term transformation and operations partner, responsible for designing, mobilising, and operating a customer care model capable of scaling in line with ambitious growth plans.
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Journey

Cuckoo's Needs and Challenges

The transformation introduced complexity across technology, operations, and customer experience.

  • Multiple legacy brands, customer journeys, and fragmented data sets
  • Inconsistent service performance and limited scalability
  • Legacy debt with no formalised dunning framework
  • Heightened regulatory scrutiny and customer experience expectations
  • The need to operationalise the CRM operating model, not simply implement the platform

A requirement for a partner able to grow with the business, not deliver a fixed-scope transition

Outcomes and Success

 
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70% to 86%

Voice SLA improved

 

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Approx. 80%

Email SLA achieved against a 70% target

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4.5 Trustpilot

Increased from 4.0

 

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92.41%

Reduction in complaints (from 842 to 64)

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92%
complaint resolution rate 

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Frontline agents generated more than 50 five star reviews in a matter of weeks 

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Financial and Operational Value

  1. Designed and implemented formal dunning processes where none existed
  2. Established a specialist debt advisory capability
  3. Recovered a material proportion of aged debt within weeks
  4. Reduced reliance on third-party debt collection agencies
  5. Identified payment and direct debit issues driving avoidable contact
  6. Redesigned processes and promoted self-service, reducing inbound demand
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Continuous Transformation

  1. Led platform adoption across training, content, and operations
  2. Delivered agent capability uplift programmes
  3. Closed feedback loops and embedded lessons learned
  4. Defined a clear multi-year transformation roadmap
  5. Supported near-completion of an industry-recognised skills academy

Operating Model Leadership
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The DDC Group was engaged as the strategic operating model lead, taking responsibility for the design, mobilisation, and ongoing operation of the customer care capability.

Rather than delivering point solutions, people, process, governance, and performance were aligned around a future-state operating model designed for scale, resilience, and continuous improvement.
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Programme and Project Management

The DDC Group provided full programme and project management leadership, acting as a single point of accountability for delivery.

  • Defined and owned the end-to-end programme plan across all workstreams.
  • Established formal governance structures and senior stakeholder cadence.
  • Managed milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, issues, and actions.
  • Maintained RAID logs with proactive risk mitigation.
  • Coordinated internal and client teams to maintain pace and alignment.
  • Delivered regular status reporting, decision logs, and progress updates.

This disciplined approach ensured delivery certainty while retaining flexibility as business priorities evolved.

Phased Growth Approach

Initially, a small specialist back-office team was deployed to demonstrate delivery quality, governance, and hands-on platform capability in live operations.

As confidence grew, scope expanded rapidly to cover all brands, contact channels, and customer journeys, creating a strong operational foundation for scale.

Designing for Scale

The DDC Group led strategic working sessions to define how Customer Care should operate as the business continued to grow.

A future-state Target Operating Model was delivered to:

  • Embed the CRM operating model end to end
  • Complement in-house Customer Experience leadership
  • Enable scalability, efficiency, and regulatory compliance
  • Create a platform for continuous improvement rather than one-off change

The model covered customer journeys, workforce strategy, performance management, debt handling, quality, governance, and reporting.
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Mobilisation and Operational Ownership

Mobilisation and Operational Ownership

Following approval, The DDC Group assumed full programme and operational leadership.

  • End-to-end programme governance and client alignment
  • Knowledge transfer, process design, and operational readiness
  • Recruitment, training, and mobilisation at pace
  • Embedded risk management, RAID, and continuous improvement

A large customer care workforce was recruited and onboarded within weeks, scaling delivery across multiple locations. Teams were trained, coached, and progressively brought live under a platform-aligned operating framework.

The DDC Group now operates the customer care service end to end.

Partnership Impact

As delivery matured, additional responsibilities were awarded beyond the original scope, reflecting depth of trust and partnership.

The engagement received external recognition for excellence in transformation delivery and collaborative operating model design. Senior client stakeholders described the delivery team as the strongest they had worked with in their careers.

The Result

The DDC Group helped the organisation move beyond transition to a scalable, growth-ready customer care operating model, delivering measurable improvements in performance, customer experience, and financial outcomes.

This is not a completed project.
It is an operating partnership designed to grow alongside the business.

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Client Testimonial

"The DDC Group has been the most exceptional partner I’ve worked with. From day one, their flexibility, commitment, and deep expertise were evident. The transition was seamless, achieving operational stability in record time with no customer complaints, even after losing our internal team. Their Bosnia operation exceeded expectations, and they adapted quickly under financial constraints, proving their dedication to true partnership. I would recommend DDC without hesitation to any organization seeking excellence under pressure."

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