After a year flirting with the ever-present “pause” button, we’re seeing many more businesses hit the gas on their customer care program—in particular, seeking out the right outsourced partner. Sound like a familiar scenario? If so, the RFP is about to become the friend you love to hate. It’s a necessity—but it doesn’t have to […]
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Maybe you’re a math person and love nothing more than a hefty Excel document to dig into for a few hours. Or maybe math isn’t your strong suit and you’re just looking for hard numbers to tell you what you need to know. Either way, we’ve put together this handy infographic to help you compare […]
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The RFP is the friend you love to hate. The necessary evil. The document that will make or break your decision of which new outsourcer to partner-up with. A generic vendor RFP template may promise to make things easy, but when you’re about to hand over your customer interactions to an outsourced contact center, generic […]
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When you think of a call center, the last thing you’d associate it with is baseball. But for those of us who work in contact center workforce management (WFM), the connections are obvious. You might ask, what do baseball and WFM have in common? In short, it’s statistics. Predictive pattern analysis is essential to managing […]
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We like to refer to Roadside Assistance Customer Service teams as the special forces of customer service being able to ramp up for unpredictable and extreme peaks in volume And boy-oh-boy did the past year deliver extreme swings in volume due to record weather events and various polar vortexes. When we tallied up the team’s results, we […]
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In the contact center industry, workforce management is both an art and a science – kind of like baseball. Statistics matter and so does the human ability to “read the play.” Collaboration between client and outsourcer (like an owner and team manager in Major League Baseball) is key to setting your team up for success. […]
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When you’ve been in the business as long as we have the numbers start to add up. As we head into our 20th anniversary in 2014, we had a ton of fun putting together this infographic on The Numbers Behind Blue Ocean!
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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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This team books rides in 450 cities worldwide for a client’s customer base that includes 80% of Fortune 100 companies.
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