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Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz Call Centre Audit Draw

Floral distributor executive wins Snapshotz call centre audit draw

The winner of a draw held in Toronto for free usage of the Snapshotz call centre audit tool is Amas Tenumah, Vice-President, Operations for Teleflora, a floral distribution network. Tenrmah receives a single-user license for Snapshotz that will be applied in the Teleflora Oklahoma City [...]

Effectiveness Indicators – Customer Satisfaction

Effectiveness Indicators – Customer Satisfaction Turaj Seyfrafiaan

In the past several months, we have reviewed a number of contact centre efficiency and effectiveness indicators. While each article discussed a specific grouping of indicators, it was always emphasized that we cannot analyze them in solitude and need to view them as part of a larger [...]

The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011 Now Available

“The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2011″, the major annual report studying the performance, operations, technology and HR aspects of US contact center operations, is now available for download, free of charge. A detailed structured questionnaire was asked to hundreds of contact center managers and directors, and the result is the 4th edition of the [...]

Is A Strategy For The Contact Center Necessary?

Is A Strategy For The Contact Center Necessary? By Colin Taylor In our call center and contact center consulting practice, we are often asked this question.

Johnson and Scholes (Exploring Corporate Strategy) define strategy as follows:

“Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through [...]

New Video – Talking Call Centers- Rosetta Carrington Lue- City of Philadelphia

We have just posted a new Talking Call Centers video on our Call Center Channel on YouTube, featuring Rosetta Carrington Lue, the deputy managing director who oversaw the city of Philadephia`s launch of the 311 service. During the interview with [...]

How good is your Training: Take the Quiz

How good is your Training: Take the Quiz By: John Cockerill Understatement of the day -Training is important. Just about everyone says so. But like the weather everyone talks about but few do anything about it. Here is a quick test to gauge the health and effectiveness of the training in your center. 1. Is [...]

Video Interview of Amas Tenumah of Teleflora

Interview with Amas Tenumah of Teleflora discussing Call Center trends, the return of CRM and the role and capabilities of Social Media.

Watch the video here

Operational Indicators: Financial Metrics

Operational Indicators: Financial MetricsCost per Call / Cost perMinute Operating & Capital Expenditure / FTE – In the last three posts we discussed various operating indicators. Those indicators were measuring and representing the efficiency of the operation. In this post, we step beyond the pure operation point of view and will look at some of [...]

The Customer Experience and the Call Center, Part 3

In our call center consulting practice we often assist call centers understand and rationaize their Customer Experience strategy. This includes aligning the call center operational model with the desired Customer Experience.

In this third article in our Customer Experience (click to view Part 1 and Part 2 )and the Call Center series we examine how [...]

What are the most important components that make a successful contact center of the 21st Century?

We were recently asked this question by Call Center Life, a magazine serving the Turkish call center industry and wanted to share this content here….

Question -What are the most important components that make a successful contact center of the 21st Century? Colin Taylor – A holistic view of the contact center is essential for [...]