1. January 24-27, 2011 Doubletree Resort Orlando-International Drive
Orlando, Florida
Embracing the Megatrends & Transforming the Contact Center
• Leverage social media to reduce calls, drive strategic direction and measure ROI
• Gain the insight and skills to stay ahead of contact center evolution
• Discover advanced methodologies to ensure no contact channel becomes neglected
• Realize cost and efficiency savings and demonstrate the ROI of technology investments
• Create a culture that inspires world-class excellence and drives customer experience
All New Features of the Summit 2011:
• New speakers, including Keynotes from
Gina Debogovich John Roddy Steve Riddell Joshua “Sipp” Sippola
Senior Manager, Senior VP/CLO VP of Operations TalkToQwest Team Lead
Communities Logistics & Distribution Blinds.com & Social Media Strategist
Best Buy Arhaus Furniture Qwest
• New interactive learning formats
• New tracks on The Power of Social Media and Shoring, Sourcing and Staffing
• New site tours to Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando and World Travel Holdings
Sponsors:
To Register Contact Sean 416-597-4740 or sean.hundt@iqpc.com
2. January 24-27, 2011
Doubletree Resort Orlando-International Drive
Orlando, Florida
Dear Contact Center Executive:
Year over year, we have built our programs based around our attendee’s feedback, successful previous sessions and
continuous research in call center management. This year, Call Center Week presents The Summit to take it to a whole
new level. We’re looking at the changes facing contact centers and addressing them head on.
What’s your social media strategy for communicating in the public domain with customers wanting instant gratification?
How effectively are you communicating with customers in a multichannel environment? How are you leveraging social
media to reduce contact center calls and drive the strategic direction of your business? What technology are you leveraging
to enhance service and efficiency?
The way customers want to connect with you is changing. In 4-5 years, will customers still want to call you or will they be
using self service or want to connect through a different medium (eg social media, chat)? What should we do now to
prepare for this trend? Eventually, call centers won’t be transaction centers; they will be relationship centers. This event is
designed to provide the insight, skills and strategy needed to embrace the megatrends and transform the call center.
Let’s get ready for 2015!
Let’s think of The Summit 2011 event as a journey on a train. The first step we’ll take is to make sure you run your train
efficiently and on time. We’ll cover many critical issues addressing the operational side of contact center management.
The second step is to help you actually reinvent the transportation system. Are you embracing the mega trends and
figuring out how you will provide outstanding service to customers across all channels? Who are you hiring and
developing in order to meet this next generation of opportunities?
Get ready for learning, networking, problem-solving and strategizing. Our innovative learning formats will enable you to
learn from speakers, from each other, and even from your own brainstorming ideas.
I look forward to growing with you and getting ready for the call center of the future!
See you in Orlando,
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3. THE SUMMIT IS PLEASED TO INTRODUCE
NEW LEARNING FORMATS
The Summit wants to make sure you extract the most information from every session,
maximize the time you spend at the event and enhance your professional development.
ROADMAP TO LEARNING INNOVATION IMPROMPTU PANELISTS FROM THE AUDIENCE
Our keynote speaker will help you create a strategy for growth. Participants will share their challenges, dissect live customer calls
and see how speech analytics identifies those challenges to
develop process improvements.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS – BACK BY POPULAR
DEMAND!
Our peer-to-peer roundtable sessions are designed to provide an BINGO GAME
open forum to discuss your challenges and potential solutions. Interactive bingo game designed to promote learning through
game play
BLUEPRINT! LIVE DASHBOARD CREATION
Our distinguished speaker will show you how to collate 45 IDEAS IN 45 MINUTES
verbatims, surveys, and NPS Scores in a take home dashboard. It’s an idea per minute, raining dozens of new possibilities to
utilize for your operation.
“GROUP THERAPY” INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
The session leader will set a scenario around a timely issue PARDON THE INTERRUPTION
within the industry and will document the solutions brought to An innovative, fast-paced learning model patterned after the
the floor by the audience. ESPN Sports Show PTI-Pardon the Interruption will enable
participants to touch on many topics with timed discussions.
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE - NEW LEARNING FORMAT!
The audience shares strengths, successes and growing or WORKSHOP TOOL-BASED LEARNING
implementation “pains.” Workshops are hands-on practical sessions that allow for
examples to be presented and tools to be tested and
implemented in a learning environment.
PANEL SESSIONS
Several industry experts give a cross-functional look at a particular
topic, lending itself to hearing many different viewpoints. LIVE COACHING SESSION
Live mock coaching session designed to actually demonstrate
how to coach your way to world-class excellence.
TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM SESSIONS
A traditional lecture format or case study.
QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION
CASE STUDY
? Live mock coaching session designed to actually demonstrate
how to coach your way to world-class excellence.
It’s the tried and true method of teaching at top Business Schools!
Only in school, you’re reading and analyzing it. At The Summit,
you’ll hear the case study – live – straight from the source. SITE TOUR
Board the Bus for an exciting opportunity to visit a leading
company and find out what makes their company so successful.
LEARNING MAP GAMEBOARD WITH INSTRUCTIONAL CARDS
Our speaker will share a learning map designed to engage other
operational departments in enhancing the customer experience.
Connect With www.twitter.com/CallCenterEvent Call Center Week
Our Call Center
Communities! IQPC’s Call Center Week www.CallCenterConference.wordpress.com
COME SEE THE TWITTER WALL!
A Twitter Wall allows you to be heard at the event without having to stand up in front of a crowd of people. We’ll be
using #CCSummit leading up to the event and onsite to add to the conversation! Be sure to tweet along and check out
the Twitter Wall in the exhibit hall at the event!
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4. Pre-Conference Workshops
Monday, January 24, 2011
All new workshops & site tours!
More on page 9…
8:00 - 11:00 (Registration at 7:30)
A It’s Not Just a Contact Center – It’s a Business
What you will cover: • How to transition your contact center from a cost center to a revenue
• What is the direct link between your contact center and your contributor.
organization’s ability to generate revenue? • How to align your contact centre operations with your overall business,
• How do you determine the relative weighting of each of the three contact marketing and sales strategy.
center functions: revenue development, customer experience, and
operational efficiency; and how do they match up with your core objectives? In this interactive, hands-on workshop, participants will have the
• Case Study: How did a large contact center transform itself from a opportunity to utilize several tools and templates to help them understand
transactional cost focused organization into a revenue development and apply the concepts presented.
business?
John Bardawill
What you will learn: Managing Director
•
How a simple reframing of your contact center business strategy can lead TMG International Inc.
to a more profitable business.
11:15 - 2:15 (Registration at 11:00) Lunch will be provided
B Best Practices for At-Home Agent Program Success
At-home contact center agent programs are proven to dramatically reduce • How to optimize quality assurance with proven remote quality monitoring
operational and labor costs, ensure business continuity, reduce agent and calibration techniques
attrition, and optimize their workforce efficiencies and productivity. • What the most critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are
According to Ventana Research, 26% of contact centers today already use • How to manage quality and optimize the performance of your work-at-
work-at-home agents - there are over 500,000 at-home agents in the US home agents
alone and that number is projected to double in 2011. • Crucial technologies for managing the quality, performance, PCI-DSS
compliance and security of your work-at-home agent program
What you will cover: • Key components of the business case, ROI and strategy for a work-at-
Attend this interactive session and learn from the leading practitioner’s home agent model
experience – Michele Rowan, former VP of Hilton Hotels will be sharing
industry wide experiences from 150+ clients and colleagues who have Patrick Botz
participated in Home Agent Workshops from Customer Contact Strategies. Vice President, Workforce Optimization
Voice Print International, Inc.
What you will learn:
• How to effectively hire, train, coach, connect with, recognize and reward Michele Rowan
work-at-home agents while reducing training costs - discover what Former VP
remote agents really prefer and expect Hilton Hotels
2:30 - 5:30 (Registration at 2:15)
C It’s Not Just a Contact Center – It’s a Business
What you will cover: Steve Kraus
In today’s world of increasing communication channel complexity and Sr. Director, Product Marketing
higher customer expectations, customer service executives are challenged Pegasystems
to achieve their business goals.
Jeff Akin
What you will learn: Contact Center Business Consultant
Join Pegasystems to understand how to: Pegasystems
• Achieve customer service agility
• Close the gap between your vision and system execution.
Learn how to remove traditional barriers to success such as long
implementation times, excessive need for IT, mis-translated requirements
and inflexible systems that resist change.
4 To Register Contact Sean 416-597-4740 or sean.hundt@iqpc.com
5. Main Conference Day One
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
7:00 Registration and Coffee 10:30 KEYNOTE: Innovation Plus Motivation = Success: iPads,
Workforces and the Digital Age of Customer Service
8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Arhaus Furniture believes in always looking for improvements that
benefit customers and employees. They recently put iPads into the
8:15 KEYNOTE: Social Media – It’s Future and How Best Buy hands of burly furniture delivery guys to create a new customer
Leverages it to Deflect Contact Center Calls experience and better internal work flows. The business has tripled in
Our distinguished speaker leads a team of employees who are size, and loyalty is exceptionally high among
responsible for the day-to-day operations of customer-facing online employees and customers. Increase customer
satisfaction by 15%
communities across a variety of Best Buy Brands. Find out how to: • How to save millions of dollars, boost brand
• Shift calls to social media channels
while cutting costs!
reputation and improve customer service
• Engage in brand building online discussion • New tools, like the iPad, that open exciting opportunities
• Harness the power of online conversations to inform business • How to build a culture that supports innovation
decisions • Where to start when making a change, and the roadmap to success
• Turn detractors into brand advocates • The hidden price consumers and companies pay due to bad service
Gina Debogovich John Roddy
Senior Manager, Communities Senior Vice President/CLO Logistics & Distribution
Best Buy Arhaus Furniture
9:00 KEYNOTE: Shifting Call Centers from “Operational” to 11:15 Peer to Peer Moderated Roundtables
“Inspirational”
Completing a Call Center eVALUEation -- What is your Call Center • ALIGNING GOALS, METRICS AND ACTIVITIES AROUND
REALLY Doing for You? SOCIAL MEDIA
Is your call center generating new leads? Incremental revenue? • DIGITAL STRATEGY- GETTING READY FOR THE FUTURE
Customer loyalty? Upsell opportunities? Why Not? Competitive WORKFORCE
companies looking for an edge in today’s fiscally tight marketplace are
looking for ways to make call centers more than an operational expense. • THE SUPER SKILLED CALL CENTER AGENT
Call centers represent thousands of golden touches with clients each day • BACK TO BASICS: MASTERING THE FUNDAMENTALS
that can be turned into a way to nurture client relationships in order to Kimberly Warrick, Client Service Center Manager, NJ SHARES
build loyalty, brand preference and more revenue and profit.
• Leverage Call Centers as a TOOL and ENGINE for customer • FIRST CONTACT RESOLUTION
relationship management, revenue growth, enhanced profitability • GETTING READY FOR 2015
and customer satisfaction
• Turn every call into a mutual value proposition • DRIVING BUSINESS VALUE BY UNDERSTANDING KEY
• How to take the risk out of outsourcing your call center CUSTOMER AND PROSPECT EXPERIENCES
• Key factors in selecting a call center partner
• How to incent call center partners on metrics that matter
• DELIVERING CONSISTENT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE IN A
MULTICHANNEL ENVIRONMENT
Joe Jacoboni
President • CALL CENTER CULTURE
Contact Centers of America • INTEGRATING SOCIAL CRM AND TRADITIONAL CONTACT
Carrie Maurer CENTER SERVICE DELIVERY
Senior Vice President Michelle Brown, Vice President of Product
BabytoBee, An Inuvo Company Management, Stream Global Services
9:45 Morning Networking Break 12:25 Networking Luncheon
Concurrent sessions begin. Choose Track A, B or C
Track B: TALENT MANAGEMENT
TRACK A: THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA Chairperson: Barry Maners, Managing Director, Track C: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY
The Fraser Group
1:40 Leveraging Social Media to Drive First Contact Resolution Strategies Research Results – Getting Bang for
VOC to the C-Suite for Enhancing Agent Development – the Buck
Don’t miss the opportunity to gain a blueprint Everybody Wins! This overview of research results will help you
of social media strategies in order to be a Find out how BNSF Railway, a transportation understand the trends in contact center
superstar at your company! provider with 38,000 employees, is leveraging satisfaction and the elements driving
• Understanding the landscape of free and customer contact data to identify process failure satisfaction.
paid tools and make sure the fix is consistent going forward. • Understand where to place your emphasis
• Integrating social media into call center • Reducing the number of contacts and to get the biggest return on investment
analytics improving business operations • Trends in contact center satisfaction
• Creating a dashboard “hive” that captures: • Enhancing agent education and involving • On-shoring versus off shoring – what’s
competitive analysis, industry news, call them in becoming part of the solution working, what’s not
center news, surveys and social chatter • Elevating the role of the rep to problem solver Find out how to tie satisfaction to financial
• Providing your C Suite with the Voice of the and empowering them to work with internal metrics.
Social Customer needed to drive the ship departments for process improvement Sheri Teodoru
If you are struggling with gaining • Reducing call volume and freeing up agent
President and CEO
management support or demonstrating the time for more strategic tasks CFI Group
ROI of social media efforts, then this is a not In this interactive group therapy session we’ll
to be missed session! learn best practices for growing agent talent!
Michael Biondo Kathy Novak
Vice President, Customer Director of Equipment Utilization
Operations, Thumbplay BNSF Railway
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6. Track B: TALENT MANAGEMENT
TRACK A: THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA Chairperson: Barry Maners, Managing Director, Track C: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY
The Fraser Group
2:35 Becoming Facebook Fans and True Listening Posts – Acting on VOC Panel Discussion: Improving Contact
Representatives of your Brand Data to Improve the Customer Center Performance through
Our prospects and customers are evolving and Experience Dashboards and Digital Signage
have embraced the fast-growing social media CareFusion runs a technical b to b support This panel will address how communication
landscape as an extension of personal and center serving hospitals and pharmacies. Find of real-time data along with other multi-
professional marketing research. Prospects out how to listen to customer feedback and media content can improve agent
are starving for direction and word of mouth create an opportunity for mastering customer productivity (in-house & home-based), agent
recommendations – people are taking expectations and improving internal morale, and customer service.
feedback from unknown social media posts products/processes. Find out how listening to • Provide visibility to key metrics in various
and incorporating this logic into their the VOC and conducting root cause analysis areas of your business to drive productivity
shopping and buying strategies. can help you achieve: and improve service
• Encouraging customers to share their • Greater accountability at every level • Use existing technologies to do more,
success stories – let it out! • Integrated ownership of the customer improve communication with your agents,
• Create a win/win environment for your experience and drive improvement with better feedback
customers and company • Ability to work more closely together • Enhance "team approach" by consistently
• Provide incentives to customers that are • Increased tolerance level of customers communicating goals and performance in a
assisting with new customer acquisitions • Discover how to tailor your resources to dynamic fashion
• Be open to communicate via multiple social what the customer actually values – not Matt Wheat
media sites - One size does not fit all what you think is important to them. National Sales Manager
• Allow your customers to become “the
Denise M. Cunningham Texas Digital
experts” of your product
Director, Technical Support Center Jimmy Tucker
Frank Burhance CareFusion, Pyxis Products Process Manager
Department Head – Customer Service Lennox International
Operations
MyPublisher Quyen Tran
Project Lead
Lennox International
3:25 Afternoon Networking Break
4:10 Harnessing the Power of Social Leveraging Speech Analytics to Realizing Cost and Efficiency Savings
Media Customer Service to Retain Drive Targeted Agent Training and Demonstrating your ROI
and Acquire Customers and Coaching It is clear that we are all
Find out how the convergence of social media In this case study, you’ll find out how to “under the gun” to prove Leverage a shared
and marketing is getting closer based on how employ Speech Analytics to identify and rank our value and demonstrate services model
the customer is changing. This session will agents on key skills and target training and the ROI of our departments
address how to address & catalog negative coaching to improve usage of those key skills. and technology investments. We’ll start off
and positive customer feedback through • Identifying the key skills that distinguish top with a case study if how the The Charmer
social media. Discover how to increase your performers from bottom performers in Sunbelt Group (CSG) one of the nation's
customer’s satisfaction, reduce costs and drive terms of customer satisfaction and revenue leading distributors of fine wines, spirits,
raving fans to refer you to thousands of • Correlating skills with outcomes of calls beers, bottled water, and other non-alcoholic
potential customers with a click of the button. • Mapping those key skills to the phrases they beverages, transitioned 7 Business Units in
consist of less than 1 year to a centralized call center,
With the emergence of social media as a • Scoring agents and balancing the customer operating in a shared services model.
support channel, few best practices are satisfaction and revenue goals of the call • Demonstrating the ROI on technology
documented and often considered tacit center investments
knowledge. Group participation, networking • Integrating agent skills with coaching models • Recording baseline performance metrics
and live tweeting is ENCOURAGED! • Gaining efficiencies through consolidation
Mike Miller • Sustaining service through consolidation by
Michael Pace Vice President, Customer Strategy
developing a business continuity plan
Director of Customer Support UTOPY
Constant Contact Kelley Gilbert
David Friedlander
Director, Corporate Customer
Vice President, Operations
Service
Healthcare Revenue Recovery
The Charmer Sunbelt Group
Group (HRRG)
5:05 KEYNOTE: A Cross-Functional Team Approach to Enhancing your Customer’s Experience
In this session you will hear how a team of Directors at CareSource, one of the largest Medicaid Healthcare plans in the United States worked cross-
functionally to create the “Ideal Member Experience”. Staffing is a challenge in every call center and was a particular issue for this initiative as they
were charged with reducing average speed of answer, maintaining high quality, and achieving a 5% administrative cost ratio. In this session you will
learn about the approach CareSource took to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction while eliminating unwarranted calls. You will also be shown
a new and creative training process that engages cross-functional teams.
• Leveraging member feedback to create the ideal customer experience
• Engaging other departments to enhance your customer’s experience and reduce unwarranted calls
• Utilize a training process called discovery learning in the form of a “Learning Map” to allow cross functional team
46% reduction in
unwarranted calls
members to engage in dialogue, critical thinking and problem solving conversations
Kim Gibson
Director, Service Operations
CareSource
Jackie Smith
Director, CareSource University
CareSource
5:55 Networking Cocktail Reception
6 To Register Contact Sean 416-597-4740 or sean.hundt@iqpc.com
7. Main Conference Day Two
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
7:15 Registration and Coffee 9:00 KEYNOTE: Live Customer Calls & Speech Analytics in Action
The Summit will select 2 registrants from diverse industries. Each will
8:05 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks submit 500 calls in advance to our speech analytics sponsor. In this exciting
keynote, panelists will share their challenges, dissect live customer calls and
8:15 KEYNOTE: Coaching Your Way to World Class Results see how speech analytics identifies those challenges to develop process
With the economy sputtering and organizations facing layoffs and improvements. Discover why deep diving into specific calls can help you
downsizing, Blinds.com has managed to double their size and identify customer problems and provide a road map of opportunities.
achieve award winning results. Blinds.com is the largest seller of
Jeff Gallino
blinds an window coverings on the internet in both the U.S. and
Co-founder and CEO
Canada and the largest internet based organization in Houston,
CallMiner
Texas. This is a must attend session if you want to learn:
• How to achieve double digit performance improvement and close
9:45 Morning Networking Break
rates (His team averages over 35% Close Rates, up from 12% just
3 years ago)
• How to Coach everyone in your organization...everyday...with an
10:30 KEYNOTE: Measuring the ROI of Social Media Efforts and Its
Return on Objectives
emphasis on Skill Development Believe it or not, a lot of companies still see Featuring live video
• Why it is important to focus "Competence" rather than
social media as a fad and think it may go away. chat with a Qwest
"Compliance" with Sales and Customer Service people social media expert
As more and more people understand social
• How to create a culture that inspires employees and mirrors award
media and realize the benefits, the more
winning organizations like Blinds.com, Zappos.com and permanent it becomes. Find out how to prove the worth of social media
Vegas.com strategists to senior management and demonstrate that you’re not just
• How to achieve year over year performance improvement with
“playing on Facebook” all day.
every one of your call center staff • driving sales conversions with social media
• turning super negative customers into advocates
Steve Riddell
• quantify how utilizing social media to connect with customers translates
VP of Operations
Blinds.com into a significant rate of customer retention
Discover why it’s important to design a social media strategy instead of
jumping into swim and dog paddling to stay afloat.
Joshua "Sipp" Sippola
TalkToQwest Team Lead & Social Media Strategist
Qwest
Concurrent sessions begin. Choose Track A, B or C
TRACK B: TALENT MANAGEMENT
TRACK A: 3S’s – SHORING, SOURCING & STAFFING Chairperson: Barry Maners, Managing Director, TRACK C: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY
The Fraser Group
11:20 PANEL DISCUSSION: Right Shoring Is your Center Having Fun While 45 Ideas In 45 Minutes – Best
and Right Sourcing Focusing on Performance? Practices For Improving Performance
Where do you want to be touching your In January 2010, Bluegreen, a leader in the You’ll collect insights, tips and techniques at a
customers and who do you want to touch vacation time sharing industry, rolled out a dizzying pace with this “idea-per-minute”
them? What does location mean from the formalized incentive program based on format in which Contact Center experts will
following standpoints: management, training, performance. Find out how they hired a equip you with dozens of new ideas.
technology, and performance? dedicated person responsible for managing • Uncover best practices and ideas to improve
• Selecting the right shore – near shore, off financial and performance metrics, driving efficiency in your contact center.
shore, on shore or no shore (at home agents) results and creating fun activities around • See examples of what worked and what
• New vendor selection strategies and risk driving performance. didn’t work
mitigation • Bolstering employee morale and • Get ready in your contact center for the
• Relationship management and governance camaraderie while driving performance social media explosion
• Political landscape – current administration’s • Developing incentives, themes, rewards, • Learn how “upselling” is what your
anti-sourcing posture recognition while measuring results customers WANT
• Ramifications of proposed legislation on • Following tax incentive laws • Understand how employee performance in
taxing offshore calls . What impact will • Developing cost effective and even free the contact center isn’t all about attendance
proposed legislation they have on your incentives any more
business costs and vendor relationships? This session will include a bingo game • Obtain key metric tips for tracking success
Frank J. Casale designed to illustrate the key elements of an Timothy J. Holody
Founder, CEO incentive, reward and recognition program. COO/General Manager
The Outsourcing Institute Angela Blevins Seta Corp (Palm Beach Jewelry)
Tim Searcy VP, Club Services Robert Goupil
CEO Bluegreen Director- National Contact Center
American Teleservices Association Hair Club
Claudia Lowman
General Manager, Global Consumer
Customer Support
RealNetworks, Inc.
Jasen Shirley
Senior Manager, Contact
Management Sales
Cross Country Home Services
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8. 12:10 Networking Luncheon
TRACK B: TALENT MANAGEMENT
TRACK A: 3S’s – SHORING, SOURCING & STAFFING Chairperson: Barry Maners, Managing Director, TRACK C: TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY
The Fraser Group
1:15 Ramp Camp – Preparing for Talent Management - Growing High Leveraging Technology for
Seasonality Potential Associates and Leaders Operational Efficiencies - Are you
Our distinguished speaker is responsible for •Process for identifying high potential using it?
the performance and relationship of 7 BPO Associates in CARE WPS Health Insurance, a Wisconsin based
partners in 5 countries. Each of these • Providing Associates with opportunities to not-for-profit health insurance company, is
partners have 20-50 FTE during off peak grow/develop different forms of available technology to
periods. This session will address challenges • Peveraging talent in other areas of the make sure that they meet operational
and opportunities, including: business to lead core areas in Customer Care efficiencies goals. Barb has some strategies
• Selecting and managing partners that have Find out how leaders are changing Customer that can apply to any industry. Join her Q&A
the scalability from a labor, technology and Care, bringing different ideas to the table and session to find out if you are using
organizational support perspective. leveraging their relationships in the broader technology to help out your organization or if
• Maintaining sales conversion, high English organization to gain buy-in and support it just sitting there waiting to be noticed.
quality and a transparent customer Customer Care’s strategic plans. • Aligning coaching and training
experience when compared to our internal • Evaluating agent responses based on
Fawzia Drakes
agents. customer feedback and analytics
Director, Customer Care Operations
Find out how to find the right partner, export • Going beyond meeting first contact
LoyaltyOne Air Miles Reward Program
your culture and meet the demands of peak resolution standards
periods. Kelly Smith • Delivering bottom line benefits by retaining
Director, Customer Care Support customers and attracting new businesses
Darren C. Lyons
LoyaltyOne Air Miles Reward Program • Using your IVR in a proactive manner
Director of Outsourcer Customer • Social media opportunity - keeping the pulse
Experience
1-800flowers.com Barb Bleiler
Director, Member Services
WPS Health Insurance
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2:05 Afternoon Networking Break
2:50 KEYNOTE: Re-Visioning World Class Customer Service with Technology
Organizations are being challenged from every direction and there’s demand for the highest level of customer service now, more than ever before. It
is even more challenging to provide exceptional customer service when utilizing level or reduced resources in the Contact Center- which often results
in an unsatisfactory customer experience. Take the opportunity to turn it around by leveraging technology to provide world-class customer service.
• Guide to using Call Center Data to strategically influence online Portal enhancements and increase online usage, which in turn decreases calls
• Insight on how to leverage Proactive Click to Chat to increase sales and customer satisfaction
• Tips on utilizing a Virtual Agent to reduce call volume and increase self-service
• Best practices to optimize utilization of Social Media to reduce call volume
John Cushman
Vice President
AT&T eSales & Service
3:40 KEYNOTE: Millenials: “KNOW ME OR NO I”
First we had the Baby Boomers (’43-’64), then the Gen Xers (‘65-‘82) and now we’re facing the Millennials/Net Generation/Gen Ys (’82-’02) who are
changing the way we interface from a business perspective. It’s critical to understand the makeup and psyche of your employees and your customers
from a generational perspective. Find out how to meet today’s needs of internal and external customers and be prepared to meet tomorrow’s needs.
• Understanding the driving factors of Millennials
• Matching today’s technology to the information age
• Speaking to your customers and employees in their own social media languages in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace
Stuart Beame
Director, Student Information Services & Information Center
Central Piedmont Community College
4:25 Main Conference Concludes
One of the great benefits is that this conference brings together all aspects of call center management
under one roof in a short time span. It allows you to connect the dots between each department's
responsibilities and allows us all to hear such diverse perspectives. It allows us to see gaps in a lot of
our departments by comparing all the different aspects that we need to know about.
– Mark Verna, Manager of Customer Satisfaction Loyalty, Sprint Nextel
"I had a tremendously outstanding time! The fresh ideas and wonderful sessions and people were so
good for my mind. It was a great opportunity to be around such positively charged and righteously
motivated individuals in my own professional, that really understand and appreciate what we do!
– - Stuart Beame, Director of the Student Information Center at Central Piedmont Community College
8 To Register Contact Sean 416-597-4740 or sean.hundt@iqpc.com
9. Post-Conference Site Tours and
Workshop Thursday, January 27, 2011
8:15-11:15 (Registration at 7:45)
D Reigning in the Multiplying Multi-Channel Contact Center
Using targeted and integrated metrics to maintain extraordinary customer These points will include:
service across all channels. • Identifying KPIs that align with your Mission Statement
• Efficient workload distribution for evolving contact channels
As contact centers continue to evolve and add channels of communication, • Determining the impact of adding contact channels
the approach to workload distribution, staffing, metrics and analytics of • Differentiating productivity from performance across various media
only the phone and email contact center become antiquated. Discover the • Incorporating process engineering to maintain efficiencies
advanced methodologies to ensure that no channel of contact becomes • The ultimate metric
neglected. An innovative, fast-paced learning model patterned after the
ESPN Sports Show PTI-Pardon the Interruption will enable participants to WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:
touch on many topics with timed discussions, while allowing time at the Mr. Flores will facilitate this high energy session to engage participants in
end of the session to circle back and expound on the hottest topics. identifying opportunities for maintaining control in the ever-evolving
contact center world.
WHAT WILL YOU COVER:
Mr. Flores will review the numerous factors to consider when Darryl Flores
establishing your strategy in the multi channel contact center. Workforce Manager and Consultant
SWBC
8:15-11:15 (Registration at 7:45)
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E SITE TOUR: Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando
CENTRALIZING LABOR TO CREATE ECONOMIES OF SCALE Discover how the center is realizing a more consistent provisioning of guest
This site tour will include a walk around tour of the facility, a presentation service and adherence to brand standards and internal SLAs.
and a question and answer period. Find out how the center is centralizing
offsite room service order–taking and realizing economies of scale. Robert Wainwright
• Creating economies of scale from a labor perspective – realizing savings in Senior Communications Manager
costs of hiring and physical staffing Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando
• Employing virtual machines rather than actual physical terminals for the
required three active POS sessions **Only 45 seats available for the Loews Hotels Site Tour.
• Reducing training expenses by only needing to train once on the actual Please make sure to specify if you will be attending at
system expenses registration to confirm participation.**
11:30-3:15 (Registration at 11:15) Lunch will be provided
F SITE TOUR: World Travel Holdings, Inc.
Co-founded by Brad and Jeff Tolkin in 2005, World Travel Holdings (WTH) an industry leader, we're able to secure the best possible rates for our
is a multi-brand travel distributor with executive offices in Port Washington, customers. And we're so confident that our rates can't be beat, we offer a
New York and corporate offices in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Branch best price guarantee for extra peace of mind.
offices are located in Florida and Virginia.
The site tour of the Altamonte Springs, FL call center will focus on:
World Travel Holdings' owned brands include CruisesOnly, Cruises.com, • Management of multiple agent roles selling and servicing multiple brands
Rooms.com, Vacation Outlet, CruiseOne, Cruises Inc., and Villas of within one center
Distinction. WTH's portfolio of licensed partner brands includes BJ's Travel, • Ramping up staffing from an annual low point in late summer to an
Orbitz Cruises, Priceline.com Cruises, American Airlines Cruises, annual maximum during the first quarter of the year
continental.com cruises, and many others. • Our ‘Customer Connection’ sales methodology
As one of the nation's largest online and offline leisure travel companies, Karen Reynolds
WTH interacts with hundreds of thousands of customers each year. We Customer Care Directo
deliver a remarkable vacation experience for every kind of traveler, offering World Travel Holdings
everything from luxurious villa and resort getaways to top-brand cruises
visiting the world's most popular destinations. Customers can book 24/7 Jamie Unger
on our user-friendly websites and by calling our highly trained experts. As Group Sales Manager
World Travel Holdings
It was certainly an exciting learning process for me personally and professionally
– Lisa Jones, Supervisor, Group Retirement Services Call Center, Sun Life Financial
Sponsors: 9
10. About Our Sponsors
CallMiner is the leader in advanced speech analytics providing business Firstsource offers a complete client life cycle outsourcing solution
intelligence to enterprise organizations from recorded customer comprised of five vertical components: (1) Research and Analytics; (2)
conversations. Eureka, the company's flagship product, is the only speech Customer Acquisition; (3) Customer Services; (4) Fulfillment and (5) Billing
analytics solution that automatically and accurately discovers the content, context and purpose and Collections. We have assisted industry leaders in lowering their
of an entire conversation and of every call, enabling companies to understand why customers operating costs and more effectively managing their cash flows through our customizable
call and how agents respond. With this knowledge, CallMiner customers are able to significantly outsourcing solutions. Website: www.firstsource.com
improve customer service, enhance agent quality, increase sales and impact marketing
effectiveness. Website: www.callminer.com The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. a call and contact center
consultancy, takes a ‘hands-on’ holistic approach to improving
Contact Centers of America is a new concept in contact center services customer interaction and call/contact center strategies, by examining
designed by industry pioneer, Joe Jacoboni, and staffed by industry veterans every aspect of the call/contact center interaction process. 150+ years of award winning contact
who understand balancing customer satisfaction in shifting economic times. center industry experience. We understand the ‘thousands of moving parts’ that make up a
CCA delivers its proprietary solution, Extreme C-Sat 2.0, through a consultative contact center and appreciate that the contact center is the single most influential element in
operations approach, hosted, on-demand technologies and a strategic workforce model, which uses delivering an effective customer experience. We deliver proven results, guaranteed ROI, driving
"natural human resources" available in the United States - students, special needs individuals, operational innovation. 14,000+ agent desktops globally employ TRG designed operational
retirees, stay-at-home parents and veterans, to bring jobs back to America. For more information visit models. Website: www.thetaylorreachgroup.com
www.contactcentersofamerica.com, call 1 877 999-6222 or email info@CallCCA.com.
UNICOR, also known as Federal Prison Industries, was established by executive
UTOPY pioneered the Speech Analytics industry and continues to lead the order in 1934 with the goal of employing federal inmates in productive work,
market with innovative Voice of the Customer and Contact Center and training them in valuable job skills. As a self-sustaining, self-funded
Performance Optimization solutions which transform free-flowing human government corporation, UNICOR has supplied a wide range of quality goods and services to
conversations into actionable insights. UTOPY offers the only contact center federal agencies for over 70 years. More recently, UNICOR has been authorized to partner with
business applications completely powered by Speech Analytics, and guarantees the fastest ROI private sector firms currently sending work offshore or in lieu of sending work offshore.
in the industry. Website: www.utopy.com Website: www.unicor.gov
CFI Group conducts its measurement consulting practice worldwide, MicroAutomation is a leading systems integrator offering call
through offices on four continents. Launched in 1988 by University of center technology solutions. Since 1991 MicroAutomation has
Michigan professor Claes Fornell, CFI Group is headquartered in Ann Arbor, designed, developed and implemented solutions worldwide in a
Michigan. It uses rigorous measurement science to diagnose its clients' customer relationships, variety of industries. Each solution fulfills our mission to enhance the customer experience
resulting in exacting advice on actions that strengthen these relationships and improve clients' through automation. Core services include:
overall financial performance. The CFI Group methodology is used as the basis for calculating • Self-Service IVR (outbound and inbound) to obtain information quickly and efficiently,
the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). CFI Group clients include Best Buy, British authenticate callers and reduce agent interaction time
Telecom, U.S. Federal Government, UPS, Yahoo! and other leading companies around the • Call Control and CTI options for improving the management of inbound and outbound calls,
world. Website: www.cfigroup.com Universal GUI and increasing agent efficiency
• Analytics and Reporting to monitor and maximize the performance in all areas of your call
The Results Companies (Results) is a leading-edge outsourcer providing center
inbound and outbound customer contact and BPO solutions for many Fortune Website: www.microautomation.com
500 companies. Servicing premium brands in the US, we partner with some of
the world’s most customer-centric companies to help them acquire, support, VPI is the premier provider of interaction recording and analytics, quality
retain, and grow their markets. Established in 1990, we offer our clients full-cycle customer management and workforce optimization solutions for contact centers,
management solutions; included but not limited to customer care, sales, retention, technical enterprises and government agencies. Through its award-winning VPI
support, and back-office across diverse industries from Financial Services, Retail and EMPOWER suite of solutions, VPI empowers organizations to proactively improve the customer
Telecommunications to Energy, Healthcare, and Direct Response. Results has been built on experience, increase workforce performance, ensure compliance, minimize risk and align tactical
proven methodologies, unparalleled service and the best technology in the industry. Our focus and strategic objectives across the enterprise. For more than a decade, VPI has been providing
on quality and performance has enabled our clients to earn numerous industry awards, proven technology and superior service to more than 1,300 customers in 50 countries
including two JD Power and Associates awards for customer service excellence. Website: worldwide. Website: www.vpi-corp.com
www.theresultscompanies.com
CallCopy, a leading provider of innovative call recording and contact
The Fraser Group, LLC is a management-consulting firm with center solutions, is dedicated to ensuring the highest standards of
extensive experience in helping operations and management customer and employee satisfaction. The award-winning, enterprise-
improve performance based on voice of the customer research. proven cc: Discover suite delivers advanced call recording, screen capture, quality management,
For over a decade, The Fraser Group has focused on research designs that provide actionable speech analytics, performance management, customer survey and workforce management
information to management in the areas of customer loyalty and satisfaction, customer capabilities to organizations of all sizes and industries across the globe. CallCopy empowers
relationship management (CRM) and employee satisfaction measurement and improvement. these organizations to gather business intelligence, which is leveraged to maximize operational
Clients of The Fraser Group include a winner and two site visit recipients of the Malcolm performance, reduce liability, achieve regulatory compliance and increase customer satisfaction.
Baldrige National Quality Award. Website: www.TheFraserGroup.org Website: www.callcopy.com
Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, provides software to TMG International Inc is a marketing and sales consultancy dedicated to helping
drive revenue growth, productivity and agility for the world's most sophisticated you…Unleash Your Customer Potential! TMG offers specialized services focused on
organizations. Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to improve Business and Marketing Strategy, Channel Management, Contact Centre
customer service, reach new markets and boost operational effectiveness. Our patented Development, and Digital Strategy. TMG has developed a unique Contact Centre
SmartBPM technology makes enterprise applications easy to build and change by directly Model that assists organizations in developing and supporting the execution of actionable
capturing business objectives and eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM unifies business strategies to grow revenue, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction for its clients. Our team
rules and processes into composite applications that leverage existing systems – empowering of passionate professionals understand what it takes to deliver immediate results; providing clients
business people and IT staff to Build for Change®, deliver value quickly and outperform their with focused insights that relate to their customers’ needs. We support this insight with customized
competitors. Website: www.pega.com action plans and guidance to ensure our clients maximize their business results. For the past ten
years we have dedicated ourselves to helping a number of international organizations improve the
Konexo Contact + Solution Center is a leading Contact Center specializing in performance of their Call Centres. We have developed successful Call Centre strategies for such
customer care solutions where we have help our clients to improve customer international organizations as Cable and Wireless Optus, Chello and United Pan Communications,
satisfaction, build customer loyalty and lower operating cost. A business unit of as well as, for North American organizations such as Quebecor, Aeroplan, RBC Insurance, Legal Aid
Grupo Posadas, Latin America's largest hotel operator. Konexo is centrally located in Morelia, of Ontario and We Care, to name a few. Website: www.tmginternationalinc.com
Michoacan with over 1,600 workstations staffed 24/7 by bilingual agents who serve as an
extension of your company, we provide essential customer service solutions such as: Customer Interior Concepts specializes in designing and manufacturing
services support, Customer retention, Complaint handling, Welcome calls, Loyalty programs, green call center furniture that provides cost-effective utilization
sales and promotions campaigns. Our clients are companies focused on service and customer of floor space. Whether utilizing the available floor space to
satisfaction from a wide range of industries including Airlines, Hotels, financial services, travel, increase the number of workers, or to enhance the work area for each employee, the objective of
entertainment, and more. Website: www.konexo.com Interior Concepts is to improve the performance and profitability of our customer. Additionally,
we offer a Lifetime Warranty, complimentary space planning & project management, and the
Building on more than 35 years of innovation, Texas Digital is proud to be a best wire/cable management system in the industry. Website: www.interiorconcepts.com
leading provider of integrated communication solutions that deliver exceptional
value for the call center, cinema, distribution center, financial institution, help American Customer Care (ACC) is a premier provider of high quality,
desk, network data center and quick-serve restaurant markets. Texas Digital's QuickCOM is a outsourced contact center services. ACC has been successfully designing
leading enterprise solution that provides real-time communication of business vitals to contact programs to meet client needs since 1986, offering a full range of services
centers, help desks, command centers and more. Backed by a unique Best Value Guarantee, this including Customer Service, Sales, Retention/Winback, Order Entry, Market
complete solution collects, manages and communicates up-to-the-second information to Research, and Tier 1 and 2 Help Desk to name a few. With 2,000+ universal workstations
empower fact-based decisions that will improve performance, customer satisfaction and across our 10 domestic-based centers, we have the resources, experience and staffing flexibility
profitability. Website: www.txdigital.com to meet our clients’ ever changing needs while keeping a watchful eye on quality, service, and
cost containment. To learn more, contact Sam DiLiberto at 973-632-7514. Website:
Stream Global Services is a premium business process outsource (BPO) service www.americancustomercare.com
provider specializing in customer relationship management including sales,
customer care and technical support for Fortune 1000 companies. Stream is a WFM made affordable by XLScheduler! XLScheduler is a Workforce
trusted partner to some of the world's leading technology, computing, telecommunications, Management system designed for contact centers to help improve
retail, entertainment/media, and financial services companies. Our service programs are profitability and service levels. The XLScheduler WFM is typically priced 50% below market
delivered through a set of standardized best practices and sophisticated technologies by a highly leaders and we target customer in the range of 20 to 700 employees. The price level and the
skilled workforce of approximately 30,000 employees based out of 50 solution centers in 22 ease in installation has made it possible also for smaller customers to get the benefits of WFM
countries supporting more than 35 languages. Website: www.stream.com software. Website: www.xlscheduler.com
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