Facts and Figures

Posted on June 11, 2018 in Call Center Statistics • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Facts and Figures • FCR

  Over the next few weeks, we will be posting a series related to Contact Center industry statistics. Previously, we discussed statistics related to the organization and customer journey mapping. Below, you will find Call Center Statistics related to the various Contact Center channels. In the next of this series, we will be discussing Contact […]

Posted on May 08, 2018 in Call Center Statistics • Contact Center Industry Statistics • Facts and Figures

  Over the next few weeks, we will be posting a series related to Contact Center industry statistics. Below, you will find Call Center Statistics related to the organization and Customer Journey Mapping. In the next of this series, we will be discussing Contact Statistics related to the various channels within the Call Center. How […]

Posted on December 12, 2017 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • IVR • IVR • Metrics • Service Level

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Service Level: The percentage of calls answered within a set threshold. Note: Service level applies to live contacts so the same definition can be used for other channels such as Chat or SMS. Other channels such as email, fax and even social media are measured based on […]

Posted on August 28, 2017 in Agent Experience • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Facts and Figures • Research

By: Peter Elliot Many modern organizations are knowledge centered. Where would your business be without knowledge of your products and processes spread across all the departments who need it? Effective knowledge management across an enterprise can lead to improved efficiency and satisfied customers. Many organizations seek to manage their knowledge by consolidating it where possible […]

Posted on August 23, 2017 in Agent Experience • AHT • ASA • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • CES • CSAT • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Facts and Figures • FCR • Forecasting • Forecasting- WFM • Metrics • Net Promoter • NPS • Service Level • WFM

By: Colin Taylor Metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), Reports – we have a lot of names for the information and data we review to help keep our centers on track and performing as we want them to. Contact Centers can generate an immense amount of data and reporting on just about anything that we could […]

Posted on June 05, 2017 in Contact Center • Facts and Figures • Offshoring-Outsourcing • Ontario Minimum Wage • Opinion • Site Selection

By: Colin Taylor, John Cockerill, Garry Schultz, Turaj Seyrafiaan and David BradshawAs many of you have heard, Ontario has announced a minimum wage increase  to $15/per hour. This topic has been very controversial as some are in favour of, and others opposed. This jump in wages raises many questions and concerns as organizations and individuals try […]

Posted on August 24, 2016 in Agent Experience • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • Metrics • Opportunity • People management • Service Level • Strategy • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group

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Operational Efficiency, Excellence and Best Practice improvements can only be achieved once the opportunities have been identified. The reality is however, that due to the ever changing world of technology, communications and the customers themselves, the metrics that reveal the opportunities are constantly changing and adapting to new innovations, fads and management concepts. When in truth Operational […]

Posted on July 11, 2016 in Call Center Management • Contact Center • Facts and Figures • Uncategorized

By: Turaj Seyrafiann July 11th 2016, Traditionally, call centers were managed in order to minimize the costs. The reason for that seemed simple and obvious; taking the calls and providing service on the phone appeared to be of no additional value to the organizations. The call centre activities were concentrated around providing the after sale services and […]

Posted on June 05, 2014 in Call Center Management • Call Center Tools • Chat • Customer Experience • Facts and Figures • Planning • Technology

Tags: #callcenter• #chat• #contactcenter• #custserv

The Cost of Chat Compared to Voice in the Contact Contact or Call Center I have been asked this question more than a few times. Often people are looking at implementing chat or webchat in their call or contact center and they need to justify the ROI. In this post we will briefly provide an […]

Posted on October 16, 2012 in Facts and Figures • News • Offshoring-Outsourcing • The Taylor Reach Group

Tags: #callcenter• #cctr• #custserv• Colin Taylor• Outsourcing• Taylor Reach Group

I was reading with great interest the latest contact center openings and closings from September. The news is quite encouraging on the whole. With more than 40,000 new jobs created globally and almost half of this number created in the US the outlook is bright. Even in Canada where we have seen a spate of […]