Benchmarking at its Best for Contact Centers – by Bruce Belfiore and Dr. Jon Anton

$9.95

Done right, and done regularly, benchmarking provides improved work life, career advancement and substantially increased earnings on a consistent basis. This book is an essential manual for continuous improvement peer group benchmarking that shows convincingly why proper professionalism in today’s environment requires benchmarking. Includes valuable information on how to benchmark through BenchmarkPortal and describes the latest products and processes to help you get the most from this crucial activity.  Also addresses emerging best practices in key areas such as: customer satisfaction measurement and using the voice of the customer for monitoring and coaching, agent satisfaction measurement, as well as the new symbolic language for desktop software that will reduce the time of data entry and interpretation for your agents in the future.

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All books ordered will be sent to the client via email with a link to the e-book, and a password to download a copy.

Meet The Authors

Bruce Belfiore

Bruce Belfiore

Bruce Belfiore is Senior Research Executive at the Center for Customer-Driven Quality (founded at Purdue University) and is CEO of BenchmarkPortal. Bruce hosts the monthly online radio show "CallTalk", which discusses hot-button issues with industry experts and interacts with a large audience of call center managers. He is a frequent speaker at industry events in the United States and abroad.

Bruce is also Dean of the College of Call Center Excellence, which provides certificated courses to call center professionals. He has also taught the course "Call Center Management" at Purdue University.

He is the author of the book Benchmarking At Its Best for Contact Centers, a manual for best practices benchmarking, and has written numerous research papers and best practices studies focused on contact center topics. He is a consultant to call centers in a wide variety of industries seeking to improve their results, and is noted for helping to calculate the financial impact of proposed changes.

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Dr. Jon Anton

Dr. Jon AntonDr. Jon Anton was an adjunct professor at Purdue University and director of benchmark research at the Center for Customer-Driven Quality. He published many books, white papers and case studies on contact center topics and was a pioneer in research of best practices in the customer contact sector.

He started the benchmarking database which is now managed by BenchmarkPortal. During his career in our industry, Dr. Jon authored the following monthly publications: "The Purdue Page" in Call Center Magazine, "Dr. Jon's Benchmarks" in Call Center News, "Dr. Jon's Industry Statistics" in Customer Interface Magazine, and "Dr. Jon's Business Intelligence" in the Call Center Manager's Report.

In August of 1996, Call Center Magazine honored Dr. Jon by selecting him as an Original Pioneer of the emerging call center industry. In October of 2000, Dr. Jon was named to the Call Center Hall of Fame. In January of 2001, Dr. Jon was selected for the industry's "Leaders and Legends" Award by Help Desk 2000.

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