One of the largest divisions of a major cable operator (serving over 540,000 subscribers). Division is a collection of geographically discontinuous systems distributed across a single state

14 autonomous call centers without shared processes or procedures. The current operation led to poor customer service as evidenced by the low sales rates, high error rates, poor service levels, and high abandonment rates.

• Two person project team led an eight week assessment of the division’s customer care operations
• Analyzed call center data across the division
• Conducted interviews of key personnel from senior management to frontline employees to gain perspective on current operations
• Performed ride-alongs with field technicians, participated in side by sides with call center agents, and observed supervisors and managers in action
• Reviewed and analyzed best practices across other divisions within the company

• Standardize Call Center and Field Operations
• Centralize Call Center Operations
• Build Customer Care support team
• Organizational Restructuring
• Technology Enhancements

A large cable MSO with five call centers with over 1200 agents with no CRM solution. Over 15 fragmented,out-of-date, and inadequate KBMS. No standard content management tools or processes

• Increase sales and First Call Resolution rates
• Reduce AHT, error rates, agent training time
• Develop common systems to be leveraged by call centers across divisions
• Develop process for managing business knowledge
• Go live in six months or less!

• Identified vision and key requirements, developed project budget and assisted in presenting business case to executives
• Worked with corporate IT to develop requirements and designs for CRM and KBMS
• Facilitated rapid business review of requirements ,designs, content management process
• Developed and led user test and agent training for pilot implementation
• Provided post-implementation support to business users.

• Avoided $2 million dollar re-licensing cost for one acquired KBMS
• Met goals for pilot implementation in six months – on time and on budget!
• Positioned business and IT to roll out systems to all centers and agents – completed within two months after pilot!
• Provided conversion strategy for prior KBMS

A large ILEC/CLEC that provides voice and data services to several hundred thousand customers.

• Call centers were supported by a Central Office switch with ACD software providing only limited capabilities and management information
• Agent desktop application environment was very complex which led to higher than average error rates and handle time
• Company required a fully integrated contact center technology and desktop solution to enhance the customer experience

• Developed corporate vision of customer care
• Conducted a needs assessment
• Developed high-level technology requirements based on the corporate vision
• Created a business case for recommendations
• The project team presented the business case to executives and gained approval
• In three months, a three person consultant team worked with the client to define requirements, develop RFPs, review vendor presentations, and negotiate contracts
• The project team worked with the vendor to assist in implementation and acceptance of the new solution through 2 phases.

• The client saw increased sales and decreased costs within the first quarter following implementation
• The client leveraged the improved reporting and customer insight capabilities of the new system to identify repeat caller issues and developed action plans which reduced repeat calling rates by 30%.

A major provider of financial services to students and education lenders. The company was operating 4 isolated call centers throughout the country. Growth through acquisition had created a customer service technology environment that was fragmented, outdated, and forced inefficient use of resources.

• All contact centers could work together as one
• Technology was scalable
• Technology could support not only the call center but non-call center employees and executives

• Working with client executives, the project team defined a vision for customer service and developed high-level technology requirements that support the vision
• The project team presented the business case to the Board and gained approval
• The team developed RFPs, facilitated vendor presentations, and negotiated contracts
• The team was also engaged to work with the vendor to implement and gain acceptance of the new solution

• In 5 months, the project went from initial discussion of vision to Board request for funding to receiving live calls in the first call center
• Second site was live and operational only 4 weeks after first site
• As result of having clearly defined vision and technology plan client was able to roll-out new solution to the remainder of the organization – over 2,000 employees, a total of 800 call center agents , adding WFM, predictive dialing, and QA monitoring- quickly, using internal staff, at significant savings (ROI to client from consultant services estimated at over 600%)
• Substantially increased customer satisfaction, improved calls/account ratio, and reduced cost of service/account by using improved management information capabilities

Client required rapid evaluation of alternative sites for call centers

Site selection criteria included balancing risk of severe weather (hurricanes), availability and cost of work force, education levels and bilingual language skills, cost/suitability of facilities, ability to access community investment support

• Established client project team and facilitated development of client evaluation scoring model
• Conducted initial data collection and prepared initial ranking model
• Identified finalist site candidates and reviewed with selection team
• Developed refined selection criteria and more detailed scoring model
• Ranked and recommended 3 finalist sites and presented to executive team

Completed site evaluation and community selection process in 4 weeks with minimal impact on executive time and limited travel and research costs.