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Real-Time Performance Management Improves Contact Center Results Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Donna Fluss President, DMG Consulting Jim Mannion Director of Marketing, Inova

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Real-Time Performance Management Improves Contact Center Results

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Donna Fluss – President, DMG Consulting

Jim Mannion – Director of Marketing, Inova

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Housekeeping

• All participants will be on mute during the

presentation

• Please type any questions you may have

in the Q&A section

• Questions will be answered at the end of

the webcast

• 2 question survey

• Presentation and recording available

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About Today’s Presenters

President of DMG Consulting LLC Donna is highly regarded by industry, enterprise, contact center and financial leaders as one of the foremost experts on contact center, analytics and the back office. She has 30 years of experience helping organizations build contact centers and back office operating environments and the author of the book The Real-Time Contact Center and the Contact Center QA Guide

Director of Marketing & Channel Development, Inova Jim has been with Inova for three years and enjoyed working in the B2B technical marketing and channel space for over fifteen years. Most of that time has been focused on the Telecommunications and Contact Center sectors, including ten years at Avaya. While at Avaya, Jim helped launch many successful products as well as Avaya’s Professional and Managed Services lines of business.

Donna Fluss

Jim Mannion

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Agenda

• Real-time contact center performance

management

– Top reasons for investing

– Benefits

– Is it right for you?

• Best practices for implementing a real-time

CCPM solution

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Donna Fluss, President Customer-Focused Strategy, Operations & Technology

Real-Time Performance Management Improves Contact Center Results

April 21, 2015

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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”

- Peter F. Drucker

The Contact Center Reporting Challenge

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3 Modes of Contact Center Reporting

Real Time

Next day/week/month As it’s happening Within 5-15 minutes

Tracks performance of a broad group of KPIs over a period of time to identify agent, procedural, operational, and system problems, so they can be fixed

As it’s happening

• Re-train agents

• Improve training program • Fix systems

• Modify procedures

• Enhance operations

• Defuse difficult customer situations

• Retain customers

• Increase revenue • Speed up call handling

Gives agents and supervisors real-time data to alter the outcome of an interaction

Gives management and agents data that changes agent behavior and improves outcomes

• Deliver targeted agent coaching

• Remind agents to adhere to schedule

• Modify agents’ schedules

• Calm agents • Cancel breaks

• Notify IT of problems

Historical Near-Real Time

Action

Purpose

Time Frame

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What is Contact Center Performance Mgt?

Goals Enterprise Contact

Center Agent

Data Sources ACD/PBX/Dialer IVR Recording/QA Surveying/VOC Speech/Text

Analytics Desktop Analytics WFM Social Media CRM/ERP/SCM HR

Review Process

Balanced Scorecards Enterprise Contact Center Site Team Agent

Action Coaching/Training/

eLearning Gamification Rewards & Recognition Pay-for-Performance Enhance Policies &

Procedures Updated Schedules

KPIs/ Metrics CX Revenue Customer

Retention Productivity/

Effectiveness Expenses

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Collect, aggregate and analyze information in real or

near-real-time from multiple operating systems

Calculate and generate KPIs

Identify out-of-compliance situations

Notify and alert appropriate parties

Share data in many formats

Feed contact center and enterprise historical PM

solutions

Provide mobility

Best-of-Breed Real-Time CCPM Functionality

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Inaccurate

Reports /

Bad Data

1 Reports from siloed servicing systems, ACD, dialer, interactive voice

response (IVR) and other applications are inconsistent

2 Reports are not credible or trusted

Poor

Reporting

Technology

3 Reports do not provide timely data

4 The contact center lacks the ability to produce consolidated performance

reporting and dashboards – one view of the truth

5 Systems do not provide OLAP functionality, and there is no way to

analyze the data to identify trends and opportunities

6 Reporting environments are hard to use and do not support drill-down

7 There is limited custom/ad hoc reporting functionality

Reports Do

Not Provide

Useful

Information

8 There are dozens of reports, but no useful information

9 The department lacks quantifiable data upon which to base decisions

10 The contact center lacks accurate metrics/KPIs

11 Need to quickly and cost effectively modify metrics/KPIs

Top Reasons for Investing in a Real-Time

CCPM Application

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Data Is Not

Actionable

12 Reports do not deliver actionable data

13 Reports do not identify high-priority problems, or how to fix them

14 Reports do not show agents and supervisors if they are meeting

their productivity, AHT, adherence, revenue or collections goals

15 The contact center cannot produce balanced scorecards

Cannot

Provide

Timely

Feedback to

Agents

16 Agents complain that they are not receiving timely feedback

17 The contact center cannot deliver real-time data (KPIs, coaching,

etc.) to agents and supervisors

Lack of

Reports for

Senior

Management

18 The contact center cannot show its value to the enterprise

because its data is not aligned with corporate goals

19 The contact center is unable to provide appropriate data to feed

the enterprise performance management solution

20 The contact center cannot measure customer satisfaction

Reporting

Resources 21

The contact center does not have business analysts to manage

the various system reports

Top Reasons for Investing in a CCPM

Application – Continued

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• Reduces transaction handle time • Reduces telecom costs • Improves effectiveness of coaching &training • Improves agent occupancy and adherence • Streamlines reporting requirements

Reducing Operating Expenses

• Motivates agents • Identifies training opportunities • Reduces agent attrition • Reduces average handle time • Identifies process that need to be changed • Improves satisfaction of supervisors • Identifies pay-for-performance opportunities

Improving Productivity / Effectiveness

• Improves agent quality • Increases customer satisfaction • Improves FCR • Reduces transfers and hand-offs • Decreases number of calls put on hold • Increases agent satisfaction • Enhances relationship with customers

Providing Outstanding Customer Experience

• Grows sales/up-sells/cross sells • Increases sales closure rates • Better identifies sales opportunities • Improves effectiveness of each sales attempt • Reduces cost of sales

Generating Revenue

• Recognizes and rewards agents for retaining customers • Identifies successful retention approaches and techniques • Builds customer loyalty

Retaining Customers

Benefits of CCPM Enterprise

Contact Center Agents

Customers

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Decision Framework: Is Real-Time

CCPM Right for your Contact Center? YES NO

Have access to KPIs that tell you in real-time if you are meeting your goals?

Know when the department AHT is greater than the goal?

Know when the abandonment rate is higher than planned?

Have visibility into how each agent is performing throughout the day?

Know immediately when interaction volumes are greater than plan?

Know immediately when the self-service application is malfunctioning and not properly delivering calls to agents?

Know when too many agents are unexpectedly out and there are not enough agents to address transaction volumes within the service level?

Know immediately when a new business, procedural, system or support issue comes up that agents do not know how to address?

Know when customers get angry at your organization or agents?

Know when agents get angry and yell at customers?

Know right away when a customer is highly dissatisfied with your company?

Have an early warning system to notify management when a customer issue may go viral?

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Best practices for implementing a real-time CCPM solution

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“If you can’t see it, you can’t measure it”

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Goals

• CSAT

• Consistent SL

• Agent engagement

• Competition

• Lower costs

• Better productivity

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Environmental Markers

• Objectives Driven

• Qualitative Measures

• Planning and Analysis

• Staff Engagement

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Real-Time Data

• Right now, right now

• Cumulative, right now

• Contextual

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Productivity

• Call Handled

• Conversion %

• Total Sales

• Tickets Closed

• Upsell %

Efficiency

• Shrinkage

• ABN %

• Avg. Speed to ABN

• Queue Volume

• FCR

Logistical

• Avail Agents

• Agent State

• Time in State

• Schedule ADH

• Occupancy Rates

Customer Focused

• Avg. Hold Time

• CSAT / NPS

• SL% / Resp. Time

• QA Scores

• Hold & Transfer %

Metric Selection – Categories

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WFM/QA/Recording

• Agent ADH

• Occupancy Rate

• Forecast Accuracy

• Avg. QA Score

• QA Compliance

CRM

• Total Revenue

• % to Sales Goal

• Conversion %

• Cases Opened

• Cases Closed

Social Media

• Applicable Volume

• Response Rate

• Redirect Rate

• Avg. Resolve Time

• 1st-Post Resolve

ACD/PBX/Dialer

• Contact Volume

• Avail Agents

• SL%

• ABN%

• PTP%

Metric Selection – Systems

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Audiences

• Agents

• Agent Teams

• Supervisors

• Managers

• Executives

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Actionable Data

• Threshold-based alerting

• Instructional Messaging

• Follow-up Actions

• Kick-off other systems

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Delivery Options

• Licensed / premises-based

• Cloud-based

• Hybrid

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Vendor Considerations

• Certifications

• Partnerships

• Contact center expertise

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Questions and Answers

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Thank You!

Donna Fluss

President, DMG Consulting

P: 973-325-2954

[email protected]

Jim Mannion

Director of Marketing & Channel Development, Inova

P: 800-637-1077 x8122

[email protected]