The industry’s No. 1 selling book on call center management! Often dubbed the "Call Center Bible", Call Center Management on Fast Forward is the most comprehensive source available on running a call center. It covers every aspect of call center management—service level, forecasting, scheduling, resource calculations, metrics, quality, budgeting, reporting, strategy and key enabling technologies—in a format that is well-organized and easy to understand.
The updated and expanded edition contains important new information, including:
- Trends in customer expectations
- Best practices in performance reports and objectives
- How to create an effective customer access strategy appropriate for today’s environment
- How to manage multichannel contacts with quality
- New technologies—and how they’re changing customer contact services
- Improving the call center’s strategic impact and ROI
- New case studies and examples from Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Aetna and many others
Budgets, Service Level, Quality, Forecast accuracy
A convenient, portable reference of terms. At 3.5 by 5 inches, the book is small enough to fit in a busy manager's pocket, yet it's packed with industry acronyms and concise definitions of more than 500 call center industry terms.
148 pages.
Operations Management, Cost Performance, Customer Satisfaction Measurement/Management, Metrics/Performance Measurement
This book is temporarily out of stock.
There is simply no way to establish and operate an effective call center environment without a solid understanding of the principles behind forecasting, staffing, scheduling, service level, queuing dynamics and real-time management. Originally published in the pages of Call Center Management Review, these articles were selected for their educational value, practicality, and most importantly, coverage of timeless call center management principles.
104 pages, paperback, more than 35 charts and graphs.
Forecasting, Real-Time Management, Scheduling, Service Level
ICMI's Call Center Management Dictionary is a practical, comprehensive reference for customer contact professionals. This essential resource covers a host of subjects, including, but not limited to, measurements, objectives, reporting, analysis, forecasting, planning, monitoring, coaching, quality, performance, improvement, human resources, training, customer behavior, marketing, technologies, budgeting, finance, strategy, industry acronyms, and more! Accurate and easy to use, ICMI’s Call Center Management Dictionary is designed to cut through the clutter and confusion in today's terminology, so that you can communicate more effectively, improve customer services and make better decisions that will help build your career.
1072 acronyms and terms, 41 graphs and tables.
Operations Management, Abandonment, Accuracy, Key Call Center Metrics
There is simply no way to establish and operate an effective call center environment without a solid understanding of the principles behind forecasting, staffing, scheduling, service level, queuing dynamics and real-time management. Originally published in the pages of Call Center Management Review, these articles were selected for their educational value, practicality, and most importantly, coverage of timeless call center management principles.
104 pages, more than 35 charts and graphs.
Forecasting, Real-Time Management, Scheduling, Service Level
The industry’s No. 1 selling book on call center management! Now available in eBook format, Call Center Management on Fast Forward is the most comprehensive source available on running a call center. This book, dubbed the "Call Center Bible", covers every aspect of call center management—service level, forecasting, scheduling, resource calculations, metrics, quality, budgeting, reporting, strategy and key enabling technologies—in a format that is well-organized and easy to understand.
The updated and expanded edition contains important new information, including:
- Trends in customer expectations
- Best practices in performance reports and objectives
- How to create an effective customer access strategy appropriate for today’s environment
- How to manage multichannel contacts with quality
- New technologies—and how they’re changing customer contact services
- Improving the call center’s strategic impact and ROI
- New case studies and examples from Wells Fargo, Starbucks, Aetna and many others
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Service Level, Forecast accuracy, Forecasting, Scheduling
