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Contact center optimization

Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your contact center operations by designing and implementing innovative contact center models, and deliver a consistent, high-quality customer experience across all appropriate channels, at a reasonable cost-to-serve.

Service detail
Contact center optimization services help our clients, with the solution spanning inbound and outbound sales and service.
 
Highlights
Improve efficiency and effectiveness of contact center operations
Design and implement a contact center model that delivers a superior customer experience
Achieve reasonable cost-to-serve, through consistent approaches to dealing with customers across all contact center's channels (phone, Web, IDTV / kiosk, mobile access, etc.)

Our customer relationship management services include a full range of contact center optimization services, including:

  • Contact center strategy
    Helps formulate contact center strategies that support their overall business vision and leverage the contact center as a competitive differentiator.
  • Contact center consolidation strategy
    Helps formulate consolidation efforts. It strategically sequences a definitive course for the organization, and helps to ensure overall implementation success.
  • Contact center diagnostic
    Helps clients determine the gap between where their contact center and delivery channel operations and capabilities are today, and where they need to be in the future.
  • Self service assessment
    Helps our clients determine the most effective use of web-enabled technologies to support their contact center business needs.
  • Telephony integration assessment
    Leverages both IBM and third-party technology infrastructure to automate contact center activities. Solution components include:
    • IVR
    • CTI
    • IPCC
    • Voice portals
    • Voice recognition

The potential benefits of contact center optimization services include:

  • Rationalized and optimized customer-care assets that reduce cost of care
  • Migration of lower-value customers and transactions to lower-cost media/channels (IVR, Web, e-mail)
  • Consolidated and standardized care processes and infrastructure.
Building a New IP Contact Center Mindset - IP Telephony can be an upgrade, a catalyst, and a fastlane to the future. How will you transform your conventional contact center? (347KB)
The Customer Focused Contact Center - A Companion Paper to IBM's Advocacy in the Customer Focused Enterprise Paper (713KB)
The Contact Center of the Future (580KB)

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