Contact Center Strategic Planning
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Welcome to the Contact Center Planning Channel
Welcome to the Contact Center Planning channel, sponsored by Bay Bridge Decision Technologies.
Contact center planning is the process of creating weekly, monthly, annual, and multi-year capacity plans for inbound phone, outbound phone, email, IM, casework and processing across the entire enterprise – even those with multiple geographical locations. By applying mathematically proven solutions to the most common and complex business challenges, contact centers can increase efficiency, drive productivity and cut costs.
Key functions of contact center planning include: forecasting the impact of your short term and long term plans, hiring staff exactly when they are needed, executing what-ifs quickly, and having accurate call center metrics while maintaining your expected financial and operational budget.
Revisit the Contact Center Planning channel for variety of breaking news, industry-related news, white papers, case studies, client success stories and blog posts.
Contact Center Planning Featured Articles
Contact Center Planning for Proper Performance Measurement
The contact center is designed to solve a number of challenges for an organization. Without the right contact center planning, however, the center could in effect cause more challenges than it remedies. Bay Bridge offers insight into how companies can effectively use contact center planning for process improvement and to avoid "silly" errors.
5/21/2012
The Essentials of Contact Center Planning
If you were to approach anyone involved within the contact center industry and ask them what they believe are the most crucial elements that have prompted their success, many would say high customer satisfaction rates or reduced costs. Whatever factor they focus on however, requires a large amount of work and that is where contact center planning comes in.
5/16/2012
Contact Center Planning Important to Address Complex Business Objectives
Everything in business comes at a cost and customer service is no different. There needs to be an effective contact center planning solution in place when addressing lowering costs and increasing service. As service isn't free, the question facing many contact centers is to how to improve their customer services without raising the associated costs.
5/15/2012
Looking at the Big Picture of Contact Center Strategic Planning
As contact center environments continue to change alongside the continuous introduction of new technology solutions, an effective planning strategy is crucial to preparing everyone in this space for potential future scenarios that can arise without warning.
5/8/2012
Service Consistency Goals in Contact Center Planning
If your main goal is to serve your client base with quality service deliverables, there are specific criteria to consider when developing your quality metrics. This focused strategy should help in the development of service consistency if included in your contact center planning and executed effectively.
5/8/2012
Contact Centers Should Plan to Transition to 'UC-Enabled' Environment
Contact center planning looks to the future to strategize for potential scenarios that if not appropriately handled could cause catastrophic damage to a company in the long term. Unified communications is something all contact centers who wish to keep a competitive edge must migrate to right away to increase flexibility and efficiency, making it easier to align people with vital business process applications.
5/1/2012
Contact Center Planning Industry News
Certified Payment Processing Identifies Merchant Sales Consultants as Key to Market Growth
5/25/2012 12:14:03 PMSynergy Solutions plans Bemidji expansion
5/25/2012 11:44:06 AMAlorica Named to Top 50 Teleservices Agencies Ranking
5/25/2012 1:44:40 AMAquarium Software Launches Travel Insurance Claims and Process Management Software Solution
5/25/2012 1:44:10 AMYardi Portal Offers Full Multifamily Leasing Solution
5/25/2012 1:14:12 AMSynergy Solutions plans Bemidji expansion
5/24/2012 10:44:06 PMDiscover the impact that CenterBridge can have on your business.
White Papers
- Welcome to The Decision Decade: The Time for Contact Center Decision Support is Now
- Contact Center Enterprise Analytics
- Forecasting and Decision-making
- Finding Costs Hidden in Your Contact Center Plans
- Contact Center Planning: Agility is Key
- Preparing for Uncertainty: The Critical Need for Contact Center Strategic Planning
Success Stories
- Carlson Hotels Worldwide - Rapidly Answering Strategic Contact Center Questions Helps Carlson Stay at the Top of the Hospitality Industry and Reduce Staffing Expense
- Hyatt Hotels Improves Contact Center Planning
- Liberty Mutual Uses Advanced Strategic Planning
- RCI Connecting Operations and Finance Drives Optimal Contact Center Planning

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