What’s driving your Contact Center RFP timeline? Is your current outsourcing contract expiring soon? Are you switching vendors? Have you reached maximum capacity with an in-house solution? As you prepare to launch an RFP process to find the right partner for your customer care program, understanding the vendor side of the process can help you […]
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Blue Ocean was awarded two gold awards at an international event for Best Use of Social Media in the Contact Center as well as Best Green Contact Center. We put together this infographic to share some of the steps we took to increase our efficiency and reduce waste in our ongoing commitment to good environmental […]
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In the ground transportation reservations business, accuracy is critical. Any small error could result in a customer being stranded in transit or missing flights. For our executive ground transportation client, we have an SLA requirement to meet certain measures on incident rates attributed to Blue Ocean as a percentage of cases. While we were operating […]
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Outsourcing your call center is a long-term decision and solution driven by changing business needs. As the business evolves, the call center aches from playing catch up to the growth – handling more customers, more products, and more processes. Often that changing dynamic creates pressure which can be relieved by partnering with a call center […]
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In the process of selecting the best outsourced contact center vendor to handle your customer support, and when you have your top contenders identified, it will be time to throw some hardball questions at them. In our two previous posts, we offered up guidelines for writing the contact center RFP and what subtle signs to […]
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Finding the best contact center to handle your outsourced customer care is a multidimensional process. In our last blog post, we offered up tips for streamlining the contact center RFP writing process. In this post, we look at some of the soft factors that can affect your decision-making process post-RFP. When it gets down to […]
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Is the strength (or weakness) of the available agent talent pool a factor in your decision in where you should outsource your contact center? Behind all of the KPIs and operational processes, employees and agents are a product of their region’s education, linguistic diversity, and economic attributes. In most cases, the strength of the local […]
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Spring, to paraphrase the poet Tennyson, is the season when you can’t help but think of love – even in our cut and dried contact center world of measurables and metrics. As contact center people, we are most passionate about data, of course. And there’s no question beautiful analytics can make us giddy, but the […]
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