Colin Taylor
John Cockerill
The Taylor Reach Group, Inc on LinkedIn

The Fastest and Most Effective Way to Improve your Call Centre Operation (Promo)

We are already 1 month into the new year and how is your call center performing, really? Are you achieving your goals? How do your metrics and KPI’s compare to your peer centers? Do you know? What if you had a one time opportunity to invest $50,000 in your call center, would you know [...]

The Evolution the Call Center Audit – Benefits, How & Why…not as dull as it sounds

Just recorded this presentation and insights around call center audit value, purpose and opportunities.

On the journey to meet your customer experience and organizational goals it is essential that you can judge where you are at as well as where you are going. A contact center audit provides that assessment, guides your journey,… You [...]

Self Service of Cents and Sensibility Part 2

Self Service of Cents and Sensibility Part 2 By: Colin Taylor

In part 1 of this three part series we looked at the history of service service, the challenges organizations and customer face when trying to interact via self service, the most popular and preferred self service channels, costs and effectiveness and declining success rates. [...]

Self Service – Of Cents & Sensibility Part 1

Self Service – Of Cents & Sensibility Part 1 By: Colin Taylor A 1% improvement in customer satisfaction in utilities is worth 4.6% in market value growth so says Claes Fornell of the University of Michigan, producers of the American Customer Satisfaction Index. So if good service pays such high dividends: why is there so [...]

Can a SaaS Based Call Center Tool Deliver Real Savings?

Can Snapshotz deliver $ savings in the public sector?

This public sector organization employing 55 agents conducted a review of their centre using the Snapshotz Online tool and support from Customer Services Audit. Initially not expecting to find anything new as multiple databases and an archaic CRM tool were big bugbears. However it was decided [...]

Effectiveness Indicators – First Call Resolution, Calls / Resolved

Effectiveness Indicators – First Call Resolution, Calls / Resolved Turaj Seyrafiaan In the recent years, First Call Resolution (FCR) has become a buzz word in the contact center industry! Everyone is talking about it and it appears that everyone is working on improving the results in their center. Everyone agrees that this is an important [...]

How Easy is Your Call Center to Deal With?

“Simplify, simplify”, said David Thoreau and that is good advice for today’s call center and contact center operator. In our call center consulting practice we have seen many organizations that added too much complexity into the process that created barriers and obstacles for customers to overcome. [...]

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 [...]

Fault versus Value, What is your call center generating?

Fault versus Value, What are you generating? Every center anywhere has calls or transaction, whether in private for profit, not for profit or even government centers. In each center the calls or transactions are only one of two types: a fault call or a value transaction. This simplistic distinction is key to achieving a high [...]

10 Relatively Serious Predictions for 2011

John Cockerill 1. There will be a future however bleak or rosy, it will still be. Take off the rose colored glasses and stop forecasting historical plus 5%. That is what a demand forecast is for. Get one now. 2. Politicians will still get elected; and we all will complain regardless of who is elected [...]