
94 3.4 The incoming call center
including many hours spent training and equipping call center staff to meet
their responsibilities. Centers are now fully versed in the nuances of fore-
casting, staffing, and the behavior of queues. They have identified evolving
customer needs, are constantly changing and improving processes to meet
those needs, and finding new and better ways of operating in an increas-
ingly competitive business environment.
Summing up the overall characteristics of well-managed call centers
demonstrates that the best-managed centers are those that have excellent
resource planning and management processes that are systematic, collabora- ...