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17 Must-Read Books for Support Managers

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution By Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Published: 2012 Length: 296 As a support manager, it’s your responsibility to build a strong team and create a fantastic customer experience. Companies can achieve this by weaving customer service tightly into all of their core decisions.

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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

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As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Seven hundred twenty-two million smartphones were shipped in 2012, bringing the worldwide installed base to 1 billion.

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AI’s Role in Logistics & Transportation (With Examples)

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By accurately forecasting market trends and analyzing data, AI algorithms can optimize service levels, reduce transportation costs, and ultimately save money. But here’s the catch: Since UPS started using ORION in 2012, they’ve been driving 100 million fewer miles and saving 10 million gallons of gas every year.

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17 Surprising Stats About Call Centers

Fonolo

The 80/20 service level metric used by call centers does not, in fact, fit for most call centers. The longest hold time on record lasted five hours, 40 minutes and one second ; in 2012, a customer was placed on hold by Australian Airlines for this jaw-dropping duration. That’s a whopping 25.2% Read more about why here.

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How Two Healthcare Leaders Improved Both Quality of Care and Bottom Line Growth with Patient Transfer Services

Revation Systems

“Revation has shown the flexibility and enthusiasm we need to take our transfer center to the next level.” In 2012, Fairview Health Services began searching for a more efficient patient transfer solution. However, their communications system couldn’t provide a clear picture of existing service levels.

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Evolution of the support rep: from outsourced to in-office

Kayako

A great indicator of this is in 2008 odesk.com had 2,500 job postings 2,500 for “virtual assistant”, and by 2012 that number had risen to 25,000. Today Upwork.com shows 53,000+ for virtual customer service work alone. For instance, if their only metric is service level agreements, the quality won’t be in line with an inhouse team.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

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Source: Human Resource Management; Issue: 51(4); 2012; Pages 535-548. This will improve campaign performance overall including agents’ service levels. Additionally, call centers can simply increase productivity with small investments in recognition & reward items.