The name of the contact center management game used to be efficiency and costcutting. Not anymore. Today's companies increasingly recognize that the chances they have to interact with and impress their customers are finite - and hence, must be maximized. This slide deck, from the Avaya Customer Experience Management webinar, explains how experts today advise companies to treat their customers for the best long-term financial returns.
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Changing the
Conversation
Managing Cost Managing Revenue
Focus Interaction Cost Customer Loyalty
KPI Target $12 Cost/Contact $1000 CLV
Goal 10% reduction 1% increase
Translation
$1.20 reduction in Cost
per Contact
$10 revenue increase
per Contact
Total #
Contacts/Year
1M 1M
Year 1 Result $1.2M Saved $10M Earned
Year 3 Result $3.6M Saved $30M Earned
The Changing Customer Conversation
From Managing Cost to Driving Revenue
Omer Minkara is a Senior Research Analyst in the Customer Management Technology practice at the Aberdeen Group, and focuses his research on Contact Center and Customer Experience Management.In his research, Omer covers the Best-in-Class practices and emerging trends in the technologies and business processes used to enhance customer experience across multiple interaction channels (e.g. social, mobile, web, email and call center). Omer’s research is widely consumed by senior-level Customer Care, Marketing, Sales and Service executives. He has published numerous industry research papers, which are used by executives worldwide to build and nurture strategic customer engagement programs. Omer also speaks frequently with global decision makers to discuss their customer management activities.Omer has a strong finance background with significant international experience. Prior to joining Aberdeen Group, he was an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Europe region. Omer has an MBA degree from Babson College, where he participated in the launch of a technology company, creating a customer acquisition and engagement strategy, and developing all the operational and financial forecasts for the enterprise.
Jim WarrenJim Warren has served in a variety of key management roles at Progressive Insurance – one of the largest auto insurers in the US, Canada and Australia with almost 10 million policies under their care. Jim's experience includes Network Engineering, Telecom Service Management, Application Development and Strategic Planning,. Currently Jim is a co-sponsor of Progressive’s Converged IP Contact Center Centralization Project, a major infrastructure project designed to reduce cost while increasing customer satisfaction Prior to joining Progressive Jim served leading technology brands in IT, Call Center, manufacturing and marketing roles. You can learn more about Progressive at progressive.com.
Linda Dotts is Vice President, Contact Center Product Management, driving the global market growth strategy and portfolio execution for Avaya’s Contact Center solutions. Linda’s leads global teams accountable for market analysis, strategy development and portfolio evolution. In addition to Product Management – Linda has also held senior marketing positions at Avaya. Linda is a frequent speaker at industry events across the globe as well as our Avaya User Groups and our Customer Contact Council.