It pays to listen

The Brønnøysund Register Centre places the user in the centre. In practice, this means guiding users, so that they can carry out their tasks with as little hassle as possible.

Published 31.05.2012

To find out what the users want from us, we listen to what users have to say. What do users say when they contact us? Do they have difficulty understanding the letters we send them? Are the forms too difficult to fill in? Do many users make the same mistakes when filling in forms? The Brønnøysund Register Centre's first-line service stores the input received from users and makes changes and improvements in line with the input we receive. Close collaboration between the first-line service and the case officers in the various registers is important in order to be able to make adjustments as quickly as possible.

User service – how are services accessed?
We try to make it easy to contact the Brønnøysund Register Centre. We have one phone number and no touch tone menu. You will nevertheless reach a case officer who can answer your enquiry. The goal is that it should be easy for users to contact us and receive answers to their questions without being passed on to other case officers. This has paid off. Our first-line service handles 75% of all calls, while the remaining calls are passed on to the various registers and the services we administer.

The Brønnøysund Register Centre's internal system for submitting data collects data from nine different registers so that the information is available to our customer service staff in the first line.In addition, you can search the biggest registers at brreg.no, and you can also order many different products and services here. And that is not all. If you are an Altinn user, you can order many of the same products free of charge.

Listen to the users
Providing the right information and guidance leads to fewer mistakes and misunderstandings in case processing. We save time and resources, and the users do not experience long waiting times. This is an ongoing process. How can we reduce the number of phone enquiries, the time it takes before calls are answered and the duration of the call? Conclusion: by listening to the users.

Elaine Svartis in front of the board showing traffic and waiting times at the information service.

Key role in simplification work

Both the business community and the public administration have increasingly called for simplification. Several measures have been implemented, and more are in the offing. The Brønnøysund Register Centre has an important role in the simplification efforts in relation to reducing reporting obligations for businesses in Norway.

Ten years with the Central Marketing Exclusion Register

On 1 January 2011, it was ten years since the Central Marketing Exclusion Register opened. Almost two million people have registered to stop phone sales and direct mail-advertising.

 

Success for new lookup service in Altinn

I juni 2011 ble «Produkter og tjenester fra Brønnøysundregistrene» lansert i Altinn. Tjenesten er en gratistjeneste som er til for at næringsdrivende som bruker Altinn kan skaffe seg informasjon som er tilgjengelig om sin egen enhet.

Ninety-five per cent of businesses use Altinn

Ninety-five per cent of businesses use Altinn to report to public agencies. The annual user survey indicates that the users were generally satisfied with Altinn in 2011.

 

'Very few people realise how good you are'

'Very few people realise how good the Brønnøysund Register Centre really is, and the staff there have good reason to be proud of their workplace. I hope you continue to develop as well in future,' says Torben Torbjørnsen, general manager of Økonor Oslo Økern.

Many chose to drop an external audit

At the turn of the year, 48,000 limited liability companies had chosen to take advantage of the option to drop an external audit of their annual accounts for 2011. The Brønnøysund Register Centre processed more than 30,000 such cases during the last two months of the year.

Altinn's new look

'The focus is on the user now.'
This was one of the reactions after the presentation of the new information portal at the annual start-up mentor conference in November. In short, Altinn is now a much more user-friendly portal with a lot more content and more users.

Plain Language – a permanent project

In 2011, the Brønnøysund Register Centre put plain language on the agenda. In the last two years, the Brønnøysund Register Centre has received awards for its excellent phone service. We aim to become just as good in our written communication with the public.

Two hundred thousand Norwegian hunters

More than 200 000 registered Norwegian hunters paid the hunting license fee in 2011. More than half of them are members of the Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers.

On Facebook and Twitter

The year 2011 was the year in which the Brønnøysund Register Centre started using the social media in earnest. So far, we have chosen to communicate via Facebook and Twitter, because these channels facilitate dialogue to a great extent

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