Keith Dawson - Böcker

It's not just the technology, the people, or the customers. It's all three, and more: call centers are not just places where calls arrive. They are a strategic business asset, the core of your business's customer relationship strategy. Call Center Savvy is an exploration of how the call center works, and how it fits into the big picture. What the future holds. How new technologies will affect operations. How international expansion is changing things. What the role of the Internet will ultimately be. Call Center Savvy can help a smart call center manager position his or her center for long term success. It's about seeing beyond today's problems, to tomorrow's opportunities.It's not enough to know about call center technology; for your center to excel in the 21st Century, you need call center savvy. ;

This book is for people who work in a call center and common traits the call center location must offer. It contains practical observations about how to use particular technologies, and ideas about how to run the call center, which has become its own corporate discipline.

It's not just the technology, the people, or the customers. It's all three, and more: call centers are not just places where calls arrive. They are a strategic business asset, the core of your business's customer relationship strategy. Call Center Savvy is an exploration of how the call center works, and how it fits into the big picture. What the future holds. How new technologies will affect operations. How international expansion is changing things. What the role of the Internet will ultimately be. Call Center Savvy can help a smart call center manager position his or her center for long term success. It's about seeing beyond today's problems, to tomorrow's opportunities.It's not enough to know about call center technology; for your center to excel in the 21st Century, you need call center savvy. ;

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 improving your call center. It explains it all: everything that goes into the connection between a company and its customers. From technology primers to details about choosing and using specific products, this handbook is an indispensible guide for the call center manager. Tips for what works and what doesn’t. Help with operational problems, like managing people and technology, for without tools call centers fail to thrive. Includes information on switches, IVR, voice processing, call center peripherals, soft- ware, long distance and toll-free services, outsourcing, agent training, monitoring, the internet and disaster prevention.