Sunday, December 5, 2010

Contact Center Optimization

As contact centers receive increased pressure to perform activities more efficiently, organizations must scrutinize their technologies and processes to uncover new ways to improve. Organizations that are successful in creating contact center operationally efficiencies and cost savings are skilled at looking at their center with a fresh approach.

Clearly understanding your business drivers is the first step for management to improve efficiencies within the contact center. Otherwise your achievements will not be aligned with corporate goals.

These drivers are the basis that we focus on to deliver efficiencies and cost savings to your firm. We leverage our unique Activity Based Modeling and Costing tool. It provides a detailed financial and operational "current state" as the foundation to measure the impact of proposed changes.

Our initial efforts highlight cost reduction opportunities, provide a process and infrastructure review, and provides a baseline for establishing "best practices".
During the analysis process, many what-if scenarios and alternatives are scrutinized. These detail the operational savings and capital costs of any proposed change, measuring the ROI. Our model forecasts the impact of changes for a three-year, "future state" financial view.

The inputs always tie into your business drivers. We also include details regarding direct and indirect cost items, as well as our gained knowledge regarding process and technology alternatives. The output illustrates the high activity, high cost items that impact your business drivers.

Results illustrate improved business analysis and targeted contact center changes. These changes can be implemented to deliver immediate productivity gains of at least 20% to 30% in focused areas. Longer term changes can produce similar results.

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