Call Center Operation: Design, Operation, and Maintenance / Edition 1

by Duane Sharp

Overview

Every customer-facing corporation has at least one call center. In the United States, call centers handle a billion calls per year. Call Center Operation gives you complete coverage of the critical issues involved in the design, implementation, organization, and management of a customer call center. Sharp provides information on advanced technology tools for workforce management, workshop examples for training call center staff, and an analysis of the significance of the call center to overall corporate customer relationship strategies.
A special feature of the book is its focus on call center case studies, describing a number of successful call center strategies and best practices, selected from various business sectors - financial, retail, healthcare, travel, technology, and others. These case studies provide useful guidelines based on successful corporate call centers that will guide you in establishing and maintaining the most effective call center operation for your enterprise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555582777
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/14/2003
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Duane Sharp, the President of SharpTech Associates, is an electronics engineer (B.Eng. (E.E.)), and registered professional engineer. He has been a corporate communications consultant in the IT sector for over 30 years. Duane is the author of numerous articles on technology published in trade professional publications and of two other books on technology topics. He is also active in the greater Toronto high-tech community.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Call Centers; Call Center Technology; Organizing and Managing the Call Center; Selecting and Training Call Center Staff; Call Center Case Studies; Building Customer Relationships with Call Centers
Appendices: Call Center Vendor Resources-Product and Service Offerings;Glossary of Call Center and CRM Acronyms and Definitions

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Complete coverage of the critical issues to set up, manage and efficiently maintain a call center.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is educational, easy to understand, and not only a must for call center managers, but it will help CSRs understand the significant role they play in the overall operation of a call center, and in their organization's CRM strategies." —Janet Sutherland, Senior Consultant, Performance Measurement, Bell Contact Centre Solutions, Toronto, Ontario

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