Designing The Best Call Center For Your Business 2nd Edition

Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center, with in-depth coverage on facilities and workstation design; site selection, including communications and power backups; f This revised and expanded edition examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center.

Designing the Best Call Center for Your Business examines all key aspects of opening and expanding a live agent call center, with in-depth coverage on facilities and workstation design; site selection, including communications and power backups; f

Tips on making your call center a genuine profit center In North America, call centers are a $13 billion business, employing 4 million people. For managers in charge of a call center operation, this practical, user-friendly guide outlines how to improve results measurably, following its principles of revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In addition, this new edition addresses many industry changes, such as the new technology that's transforming today's call center and the location-neutral call center. It also helps readers determine whether it's cost-efficient to outsource operations and looks at the changing role and requirements of agents. The ultimate call center guide, now revised and updated The authors have helped over 60 companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their call center operations Offers comprehensive guidance for call centers of all sizes, from 20-person operations to multinational businesses With the latest edition of Call Centers For Dummies, managers will have an improved arsenal of techniques to boost their center's bottom line.

This guide aims to explain every aspect of building a successful call-centre, from opening and expanding a live agent call-centre, to in-depth coverage and workstation design, site selection, staff recruitment, training and retention. The book's focus is on creating an environment that enhances personnel productivity and retention.

Call Centers for Dummies is the ideal resource for call center managers. Using Call Centers for Dummies, the manager is equipped with a guide that, working under the principals of revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, will improve results measurably. Instead of viewing the call center only as a cost center, managers, equipped with new tools, will be able to affect the bottom line through continuous. Part I: From the Ground Up: An Overview of the Call Center.Part II: The Master Plan: Finance, Analysis, and Resource Management.Part III: Making Life Better With Technology.Part IV: Ensuring Continuous Improvement'.Part V: Handling the Calls: Where It All Comes TogetherPart VI: The Part of Tens

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you’ve likely never seen before, guiding readers (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over 20 total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world. This book also features over 50 case studies and real life examples from large corporations such as ING Bank, Audi, Autodesk, and Toyota Financial Services, to small startups, incubators, and social impact organizations, providing a behind the scenes look at the best practices and pitfalls to avoid. Also included are personal insights from thought leaders such as Steve Blank on innovation, Alex Osterwalder on business models, Nancy Duarte on storytelling, and Rob Fitzpatrick on questioning, among others.

This book is the companion to "The Executive Guide to Six Sigma Call Centers" which is for executives. this book is for the call center engineers, analysis, and designers.Do you know the benefits of sigma design for the call center world? Does reducing cost at your center sound good to you? How about reducing cost while providing BETTER service? Chapter 16 shows you how a Six Sigma design can provide better service at a lower cost than traditional approaches.Success doesn't just happen-it requires careful planning. The first step is determining the correct design for your call center or help desk. Author James Abbott walks readers through what can and can't be managed, who should be making what types of decisions, and how to create and use a metric blueprint. He covers the necessary design terms so all of the players can communicate effectively. And he explains the essential role of Six Sigma in any well-designed center.

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Every customer-facing corporation has at least one call center. In the United States, call centers handle a billion calls per year. Call Center Operation gives you complete coverage of the critical issues involved in the design, implementation, organization, and management of a customer call center. Sharp provides information on advanced technology tools for workforce management, workshop examples for training call center staff, and an analysis of the significance of the call center to overall corporate customer relationship strategies. A special feature of the book is its focus on call center case studies, describing a number of successful call center strategies and best practices, selected from various business sectors - financial, retail, healthcare, travel, technology, and others. These case studies provide useful guidelines based on successful corporate call centers that will guide you in establishing and maintaining the most effective call center operation for your enterprise. · Presents key concepts and techniques, including a formal development process, in a real-world context · Provides extensive management guidelines · Stresses the importance of staff selection and training

Need to know how to buy a phone switch for your call center? How to measure the productivity of agents? How to choose from two cities that both want your center? No problem. The Call Center Handbook is a complete guide to starting, running, and im