Archive for the ‘back office productivity’ Category

Demands for change in the contact centre

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The contact centre is being bombarded by demands for change from every angle. Drastic changes in the economy have caused everyone to rethink their buying and spending; customers are expecting service faster, better and through a diverse range of media; new regulations continue to be rolled out, affecting how operations are run; and internet technology continues to have a huge impact.

Process scriptingHow to manage change is perhaps the biggest challenge this year for the contact centre and for getting it right for the customer. Customers can make contact for a whole host of reasons and interactions are less routine, more challenging and time-consuming – involving emails, texts and so on. Maintaining good relationships requires that agents have instant access to all the available customer information, no matter where that data is held; clients have had their fill of being passed around or having to wait whilst information is found.

All this needs to be successfully managed but with an eye on cost and on the need for simplicity – if an existing system is working fairly well but needs new functions, no one necessarily wants to throw it out and start again. And no one wants a complex system as that just causes a whole new set of problems! The latest version of rostrvm introduces a new paradigm – Contact Point Management.

Ken Reid of Rostrvm explains, “Contact Point Management reduces transaction time significantly and saves money. For example, when a customer calls it can tell you what happened in a previous call and when you last called them; it updates client profiles to all data storage places, and there is no limit to the information that can be linked to customer contact campaigns. All information is presented in a single rostrvm CallGuide user interface, making your agents more efficient and dramatically reducing training time.”

To learn more about the specific benefits that Contact Point Management can bring to your contact centre and back office please call Rostrvm Solutions on 0800 6122 192 or visit www.rostrvm.com

Beyond the four walls of the call centre

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Every business needs to communicate with its customers. Call centres began life as a centralised point for conducting relatively straightforward transactional activities such as  receiving requests for product information, taking orders, reviewing account balances and resolving common service requests.

The increasing availability of consumer self service methods such as the internet and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems means that increasingly basic activities never reach a call centre agent. In turn this transition means that the calls that are delivered to the call centre are more complex and demand more in-depth skills from the agents. The knock on effect is that your customer’s call may require very specific skills to deliver an effective answer.

In ‘traditional’ call centres, customer service staff would be entirely focussed upon dealing with customer contacts. In the new environment the specialists who deal with complex customer enquiries often have multi-faceted job roles; handling customer enquiries is just one task in a busy day.

To revolutionise customer service the enterprise needs to capture, manage and measure all available resources to support contact handling, the sales office, the back office, and even staff out in the field.

The latest rostrvm release delivers the tools to bring the disciplines and technologies available in the formal call centre to this informal enterprise-wide contact management environment.

Skills based routing to deliver telephone calls to the right place at the right time

Ensuring that emails are passed to the team that can properly respond

Responding to web enquiries

Support tools including process scripts

Managing and monitoring performance – how well are we servicing our customers? How many sales do we make? Who makes the sales? Who is answering queries most effectively?

Keeping your promises to get back to customers

Back office process enhancement

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

One of the reasons the rostrvm application suite is such a good fit for most call centre and outbound contact management requirements is that we have been listening to our customers for over 20 years and building their ideas in to our new developments and enhancements. In the last 12 months or so we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of people asking us if we can help them with process management and reporting problems outside of the call centre. They want to take the high levels of people support capability and management information that we deliver to call centres and deploy it in the back office to drive effective workflow and process adherence. Well, the answer is yes!

rostrvm BackOffice is already deployed with some of our customers and fills a big gap in the back office process management and reporting market. Traditional solutions are either very basic (i.e. simple data collection tools that stand alone from other desktop applications) or over complicated (i.e. add-ons to CRM environments that carry a hefty price tag). Basic or complicated these solutions can look  clumsy when you compare them to our best practice solutions in the call centre space. So, we’ve plugged the gap with rostrvm BackOffice which uses the power and flexibility of our CallGuide product to deliver pragmatic, high value solutions to your back office work force.

If you want to know more about how rostrvm BackOffice can transform your business then click here.

Supporting call centre best practice

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Rostrvm Solutions is supporting the forthcoming (30th September) Best Practice Seminars run by the Professional Planning Forum. The seminars cover 3 key elements of contact centre planning – Outbound, Back Office and Customer Journey planning. This event give delegates a chance to hear from organisations key to best practice in the industry, participate in interactive workshops, learn about real life case studies plus the chance to network with other call centre professionals. For more seminar details please visit the Professional Planning Forum web site – http://www.planningforum.co.uk/activities/seminars/30-sep-2009-london-heathrow.aspx