Well managed contact centers complement everything else a company does to build strong customer relationships. Positive caller experiences build loyalty. Answering calls in a timely manner is the first step in creating a positive experience. While simple to state, it is difficult to do, especially on a consistent basis as callers expect. To keep your contact center’s performance on target, you need the right tools and visibility. Impact Technologies holds four (4) beliefs about Call Center Management Tools: - Managers & Supervisors should be able to Modify their own Dashboards and Reports in Real Time!
- Agent Skill-Based Call Routing is Overused and the Value Overstated!
- Overpriced Tools Don’t Mean Better Analytics!
- Implementation should not be Incredibly Complicated, Drawn Out nor Brutally Expensive!
Managers & Supervisors should be able to Modify their own Dashboards and Reports in Real Time!
Managers and supervisors know what information they need to manage their contact centers and how it needs to be organized to maximize its value. Forcing them to put requests into a technical team simply wastes time of the managers, supervisors and technicians while delaying the realization of the modifications. Of course, this requires a technical skill set to be maintained inside the company, which can be complicated and expensive, or reliance on outside professional services, which is definitively expensive.
Agent Skill-Based Call Routing is Overused and the Value Overstated
The industry would have you believe that suffering through the complexity of assigning skills to each agent is critical to your call center’s success. It simply is not true. Agent Skill-Based Call Routing is not only time consuming upfront but requires significant effort to maintain agent skills assignment. For most centers, the truth is that the simple one-time task of mapping skills to ACD Groups (a.k.a. Group Skill-Based Call Routing) is as effective in getting the right agent to the right call as Agent Skill-Based Call Routing.
Overpriced Tools Don’t Mean Better Analytics!
There are five (5) foundational issues that drive performance of a contact center. Solutions that maintain focus on the core operational drivers behind success empower contact center leadership to effectively and efficiently manage their centers. Expensive tools with lots of bells and whistles and tangential features often create distractions instead of presenting decisive, functional and intuitive displays and reports. Implementation should not be Incredibly Complicated, Drawn Out nor Brutally Expensive!
The industry’s traditional contact center tool providers love having complicated systems because then they can sell overpriced professional services. Solutions take weeks or months to install. Contact center staff is drowning in software implementation meetings and tasks and not focused on contact center performance. And, what is complex to install, is complex to maintain. There is a better way. It’s called OnTraQ! OnTraQ for Cisco OnTraQ for OpenScape 4000 |
