Operations and Management Principles for Contact Centres

Operations and Management Principles for Contact Centres
Author: Esther Hoffmann
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780702177040

Several South African agencies, institutes, organizations, and professional bodies are promoting and developing contact-center operations in order to satisfy international and national market demands. Accordingly, additional information, knowledge, and experience are needed to improve on how organizations integrate core business processes into these contact-centers. Responding to this need, the industry is now being represented in higher education. Featuring sections on managing contact-center performance, recruiting, training, and motivating staff- and customer-relations management, this comprehensive course guide, cowritten by several experts in the field, is ideal for institutions offering courses for contact-center agents and anyone working in the contact-center industry.

Call Centers For Dummies

Call Centers For Dummies
Author: Real Bergevin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470678402

Tips on making your call center a genuine profit center In North America, call centers are a $13 billion business, employing 4 million people. For managers in charge of a call center operation, this practical, user-friendly guide outlines how to improve results measurably, following its principles of revenue generation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In addition, this new edition addresses many industry changes, such as the new technology that's transforming today's call center and the location-neutral call center. It also helps readers determine whether it's cost-efficient to outsource operations and looks at the changing role and requirements of agents. The ultimate call center guide, now revised and updated The authors have helped over 60 companies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their call center operations Offers comprehensive guidance for call centers of all sizes, from 20-person operations to multinational businesses With the latest edition of Call Centers For Dummies, managers will have an improved arsenal of techniques to boost their center's bottom line.

Gower Handbook of Call and Contact Centre Management

Gower Handbook of Call and Contact Centre Management
Author: Natalie Calvert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351932365

Call centres and contact centres form an important and rapidly growing part of today's business world. They present a range of management challenges, from strategic decisions about how to develop a customer strategy, business planning, through to detailed considerations of staffing levels and appropriate technology. This new handbook, the first of its kind, provides a unique insight giving expert opinions on how to get the most out of your contact centre operations. Natalie Calvert, a specialist in the field, has brought together a team of 35 experienced practitioners who provide invaluable knowledge, share their experiences and draw on real-life examples to suggest practical solutions on a wide range of topics. This handbook is an indispensible guide and reference for call and contact centre managers, HR specialists and senior executives responsible for marketing, sales or customer services. The handbook is divided into six parts: I The business plan II The people factor III Contact centre technology IV Standards, processes, and outsourcing V Building profitable customer relationships VI The future.

Call Centres and Human Resource Management

Call Centres and Human Resource Management
Author: S. Deery
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2003-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230288804

This book looks at human resource management in call centres from an international perspective and uses research from leading academics in the field. The characteristics and features of working in a call centre are examined, followed by the effects that this type of work has on employees and their responses to it. It also looks at implications for employers and policy makers.

Decision Support Systems II - Recent Developments Applied to DSS Network Environments

Decision Support Systems II - Recent Developments Applied to DSS Network Environments
Author: Jorge E. Hernández
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2013-09-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642410774

This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Liverpool, UK, and Vilnius, Lithuania, in April and July 2012. From a total of 33 submissions, 9 papers were accepted for publication in this edition after being reviewed by at least three internationally known experts from the EWG-DSS Program Committee and external invited reviewers. The selected papers are representative of the current research activities in the area of decision support systems, focusing on topics such as decision analysis for enterprise systems and non-hierarchical networks, integrated solutions for decision support and knowledge management in distributed environments, decision support system evaluation and analysis through social networks, and e-learning and its application to real environments.

Key Concepts in Operations Management

Key Concepts in Operations Management
Author: Michel Leseure
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2010-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1446247953

Key Concepts in Operations Management introduces a selection of key concepts and techniques in the field. Concise, informative and contemporary, with consideration given to explaining the principles of the topic, as well as the relevant debates and literature, the book contains over 50 concept entries including: Operations Strategy, Managing Innovation, Process Modeling, New Product Development, Forecasting, Planning and Control, Supply Chain Management, Risk Management and many more.

Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education IV

Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education IV
Author: Zhengbing Hu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030804720

This book comprises high-quality refereed research papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Education Applications (ICCSEEA2021), held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 23–24, 2021, organized jointly by the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, National Aviation University, and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The topics discussed in the book include state-of-the-art papers in computer science, artificial intelligence, engineering techniques, genetic coding systems, deep learning with its medical applications, and knowledge representation with its applications in education. It is an excellent source of references for researchers, graduate students, engineers, management practitioners, and undergraduate students interested in computer science and their applications in engineering and education.

Operations Research Proceedings 2013

Operations Research Proceedings 2013
Author: Dennis Huisman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319070010

This book contains a selection of refereed papers presented at the “International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2013)” which took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam September 3-6, 2013. The conference was jointly organized by the German and the Dutch OR Society. More than 800 scientists and students from over 50 countries attended OR 2013 and presented more than 600 papers in parallel topical streams, as well as special award sessions. The theme of the conference and its proceedings is "Impact on People, Business and Society".

Principles of Supply Chain Management

Principles of Supply Chain Management
Author: Richard E. Crandall
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1482212056

The second edition of this popular textbook presents a balanced overview of the principles of supply chain management. Going beyond the usual supply chain text, Principles of Supply Chain Management not only details the individual components of the supply chain, but also illustrates how the pieces must come together. To show the logic behind why su