Call Centre White Papers

White papers represent a great way to read in depth about some of the issues facing call centres.
We have been scouting around for the white papers that provide interesting insights into the call centre world.
Making Online Chat Successful
In this paper, nGenera examine the components that make up the successful chat experience and provide guidelines to help you successfully implement chat in your company or through outsourcing.
White paper: written by nGenerea CIM
Click here to download the white paper
Opinion Piece – CRM has evolved
In this Opinion Piece, Ken Reid looks at the ways that CRM has evolved in the contact centre and asks if a new technique called Contact Point Management may not be more appropriate.
Opinion Piece: written by Ken Reid of Rostrvm
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
Call Centre Best Practice
Paul Weald looks at ways that Call Centre Managers can measure and apply best practice in their call centre operations
White Paper: written by Paul Weald of RXPerience
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
Pulling the plug on telecoms business continuity
Feeling confident that your business continuity plan covers everything?Then pull the plug on your telephone system and see what happens.
Opinion Piece: written by Graham Chick, chief executive, GemaTech.
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
So, What is a Virtual Call Centre?
Graham Chick takes a humourous look at Virtual Call Centres through theeyes of two successful owner operators of call centres in Ireland, who have been friends for years, sitting in a Dublin bar watching the world go by.
White Paper: written by Graham Chick, chief executive, GemaTech.
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
Is Offshoring just an excuse for brushing your call centre issues under the carpet?
Paul Weald looks at alternative strategies to relocating your call centre operations overseas and why cost-cutting Executives first need to consider call quality before making any decision to migrate their UK operations.
White Paper: written by Paul Weald of RXPerience
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
Pain Relief for Call Centres
Paul Weald looks at ways that Call Centre Managers can cope with increased levels of call demand – without having to increase resources – so that you can both protect your brand and also maintain the loyalty of your customers.
White Paper: written by Paul Weald of RXPerience
Click here to download the white paper (no registration required)
The seven habits of highly effective Contact Centres
Steven Covey’s best selling book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” has inspired many parallels in the field of business and organizational improvement. Call centres, too, could become significantly better at what they do by adopting the same principles as the book.
White Paper: written by eGain
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Five self service myths
Self-service is “in” among businesses. In the quest for efficiency in customer care, customer service organizations are implementing aggressive self-service processes using web, internet, and phone technologies. Unfortunately, most such initiatives focus solely on departmental goals such as reduction of contact center interaction volume and neglect broader corporate objectives, jeopardizing the most valuable asset of an enterprise- the goodwill of existing customers.
White Paper: written by eGain
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Managing Customer Emails – 10 Telltale Signs You Have Outgrown Microsoft Outlook
Many businesses start out with an email client like Outlook to manage customer emails. As a personal email client, Microsoft Outlook helps you manage your emails effectively and increase your productivity. However, when it comes to handling growing volumes of customer email inquiries, Outlook fails to scale.
White Paper: written by eGain
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Mission-Critical Email Customer Service – 10 Best Practices for Success
Is it that hard to make email-based customer service work? This white paper, discusses 10 tried and tested ways of improving email interactions with customers. It focusses on achieving two key goals in email interactions: reducing response time, and improving quality. It also, not surprisingly, provides a checklist of capabilities to look for in an email management system.
White Paper: written by eGain
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Management White Papers
Guide to Candidate Attraction, Management & Employee Retention
Whether your staff turnover is 50% or 5% you should constantly be assessing and improving your processes to recruit and retain your key resource – your staff.
This white paper uses results from a recent staffing survey. Provided by Cactus Recruitment.

















The link to the white paper “Managing Customer Emails – 10 Telltale Signs You Have Outgrown Microsoft Outlook” is wrong – it links to a different white paper “Five self service myths”. Please could this be fixed so that I can download the managing customer emails white paper?
Comment by Richard Coles — 21 Sep 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Richard
Well spotted. I’ll take a look when I get back from Expo.
Comment by admin — 21 Sep 2009 @ 8:06 pm
Hi Richard
Just to confirm that the link has now been directed to the correct white paper.
Thanks – Jo
Comment by jorobinson — 29 Sep 2009 @ 8:50 pm
I’m trying to locate a list of Outsource Providers/BPO that shows call centre presence by City / Country. Any suggestions?
Comment by Denise — 4 Mar 2010 @ 10:22 pm
Hi
The the link to the ‘Call Centre Best Practice’ white paper is not working.
Can this be fixed so I can access this document?
Cheers
Comment by Rob — 11 May 2010 @ 8:03 am
Hi Rob
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
All of the links are working correctly now.
Thanks – Jo
Comment by jorobinson — 11 May 2010 @ 12:42 pm