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Call Centre Forecasts: Don’t Waste Your Time

5 November, 2012 by James Lawther 15 Comments

call centre forecast

Every call centre has them; bad days. Call volumes are higher than expected and staff don’t show up.  The result is a mile long queue of frustrated customers; a group of deeply fed up agents and a set of supervisors running around futilely trying to “manage” the situation. A bad day. The post-mortem If the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: abandon rate, call centre, forecast accuracy, supply and demand, volatility

Where Will the Work Around Take You?

26 October, 2012 by Mark Davis 8 Comments

Work Around

This is a guest post by Mark Davis I hate to admit it, but my plumbing is starting to fail. No, not my personal plumbing – that would be another issue entirely, and one I’d be more likely to share with my physician than with an international audience. The topic here is the plumbing in […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: rework, waste, work around

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25 October, 2012 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Would you like me to write a guest post for your blog? If you would, let me know what you would like by filling in the contact form (click here) and I will see what I can do. Read another opinion Image by 4nitsirk

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards

The Problem With Technology

24 October, 2012 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Alarm Clock

I’m on holiday.  Two weeks in southwest France.  Glorious autumnal weather, misty mornings, bright sunny days and trees with leaves of every shade from burnt copper to liquid gold (very poetic if a little formulaic, sorry). Of course to get here involved a little trauma; no pain no gain.  I had to leave home at […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: complexity, error proofing, form follows function, graphical user interface, interactive voice response, less is more, web site design

How I Lost My Job

20 October, 2012 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Job Disappeared

A while back I worked in a call centre. It was a big call centre, thousands of people worked there, talking to customers. But not any more… First we mitigated the work, we removed all the rework and mistakes and backlogs, we got rid of all the things that went wrong Second we automated the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: automation, first call resolution, mitigating demand, outsourcing, redundancy

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