Capacity planning is a strategic process that contact centers use to ensure that they have the right resources, infrastructure, and capabilities in place to meet current and future demands efficiently and effectively. It involves forecasting demand, assessing available resources, and making informed decisions to align capacity with organizational goals.
Effective capacity planning is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge, managing costs, and delivering quality products or services to customers. It helps organizations strike a balance between overcapacity, which can lead to resource waste, and undercapacity, which can result in lost opportunities and dissatisfied customers. Capacity planning is an ongoing process that evolves as market conditions and organizational needs change.
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Usage-Based Pricing vs Subscription Business Model: Pros & Cons | LiveVox
When running a company, the way you charge people can make or break your business. If people feel like they are being ripped off then they will simply go elsewhere. Just a 5% increase in customer retention produces more than a 25% increase in profit. At the same time, you want to charge in a way that the company profits and can sustain itself in bringing in money each month.
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The contact center serves two purposes: customer service and ticket resolution. Understanding your customer’s needs and meeting them quickly is essential to a successful call center.
When choosing to outsource the services that contact centers provide, you should consider these six areas of criteria.
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Performance dashboards make complex data easy to understand and apply. But, displaying data that is not relevant just creates noise.
Group data by when it is used or by type. You should be able to explain how each set of data presented connects to the goal of the dashboard. Start minimal and build from there.
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