Operations – Optimization/Re-Engineering

BenchmarkPortal provides customized consulting services focused on optimizing and re-engineering contact center operations. These engagements can range from projects for single-site, single-channel operations, to multi-site, multi-channel operations programs. We always begin with a close look at the client’s business model, customer service strategy, financial objectives and market strategy. This baseline understanding arms our engagement teams to conduct focused interventions that are designed to exceed client expectations.

• Optimization of contact center operations – identification of synergies within and among different centers
• Process mapping and re-design
• Evaluating organizational governance structure and recommending improvements
• Investment analysis and prioritization
• Physical and virtual consolidation engagements
• Training and Knowledge Management development and remediation
• Quality Program analysis and fine tuning
• Outsourcing processes and governance structure
• Contact Center Technology evaluations and RFP processes
• IVR evaluations (multi-lingual capabilities) and scripting and branching documentation

The BenchmarkPortal team includes professionals with decades of experience in “as is” analysis and documentation, business requirements assembly, center design, and phased implementation of solutions for the customer contact sector.  This experience includes wide ranging consulting experience on behalf of top tier centers seeking to improve their organizational structure, processes and technology.  Our team is able to identify both root cause issues and integrated solutions that will optimize performance in financial terms and in terms of service to customers.

Our engagements usually include a complete benchmarking of your operations against your competitive peers to reveal strengths and weaknesses in performance.

Our team is also able to draw upon BenchmarkPortal’s continuing research, to identify best practices in all aspects of call center operations, including CRM, Knowledge Management, workflow optimization; call center needs analysis and enabling technologies.

BenchmarkPortal’s disciplined, structured approach to discovery, assessment and analysis assures you of substantial, on-point consulting advice that will make a real, measurable difference. We can also support your team with implementation requirements, including management of RFPs for technology, introduction of new processes, etc.

Note that BenchmarkPortal’s extensive experience includes calculating financial benefits of improvement initiatives, allowing us to assist clients with business case analysis.