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Your Challenge
While IT departments provide valuable services to their organizations, it is frequently unclear how much these services cost. CIOs often find themselves in a position where they cannot articulate exactly how much it costs to deliver a given service in order to justify the service’s value.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
IT capital and operational costs are captured in accounting ledgers using financial constructs that lend themselves well to financial reporting, but obscure the true cost to deliver each IT service.
Translating accounting ledgers to IT service costs is a difficult process that may sometimes appear arbitrary.
The data required for detailed service-based costing is often unavailable.
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You don’t have to be perfect to gain value from service-based costing. Imperfect analysis can still point you in the right direction for improvement.
Nobody trusts a “black box.” Be transparent with results.
Impact and Result
Use a method of determining the full cost of services that provides a reasonable level of accuracy without overburdening staff with excessive analysis and investigation.
Optimize the balance between analytical effort and accuracy of service costing by understanding your service cost accuracy needs and matching them to an appropriate level of service-based costing capability.
Develop the right level of service-based costing capability by applying the methods in this blueprint.
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This book is absolutely free as my contribution to the industry, colleagues, and the commerce community.
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Introduction
We know that no two journeys are the same, and migrating to a cloud solution is no
different. However, we have found through many customer engagements that there are also
many similarities that exist. We have taken those challenges and similarities and built our
methodology to make the migration a smooth journey. Often customers grapple with the same
questions time and time again—How do I create a plan to migrate my contact center to the
cloud? How can we easily make the move from our existing applications to a cloud-based
solution? What applications do I need to eliminate, enhance, or simply redo? Hasn’t technology
changed enough by now that we can finally do some cool things with our customer service
interfaces?
Creating a solid strategy to migrate to the cloud is essential to ensure success. Our tips are
sure to make your migration journey nothing more than spectacular!
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T I P # 1
What are the simple benefits of a cloud solution?
We all use cloud-based applications in our daily
lives, whether we are at work or communicating
to parents as part of the booster club board. We
communicate and manage information in the cloud
through all sorts of devices and applications.
So when considering moving your IVR system
to the cloud you should understand the simple
benefits. Cloud contact center technology can
be delivered as a subscription based service or even as a pay-as-you-go model, reducing the
costs associated with the management of hardware and software. Just think about not having
to pay for servers, routers, new hardware and dealing with software upgrades. A cloud solution
frees up your IT staff to focus on other areas of the business. The cloud offers businesses the
opportunity to reduce IT costs, streamline IT, supports simple and easy scalability, reliability, as
well as gain access to new features and services instantly.
The cloud enables contact centers looking to improve performance, productivity, and reduce
costs, to serve customers, an opportunity. That said, technology variables are broad and
diverse. It’s important to understand the features and benefits brought to you by the cloud and
to understand how those benefits can work for your business. Cloud technology in the contact
center space has been around for years and continues to grow in adoption due to the value a
cloud application can deliver to the bottom line.
Companies like Blueworx have developed pricing tools that can help you understand the
total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) for moving from an on-premise
solution to the cloud. Make sure your plans explore how to leverage the benefits of the cloud
as you build your business case.
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T I P # 2
Assess your existing technology
and business objectives
The contact center has evolved over time and
often becomes a complicated mess of multiple
vendors, outdated applications, and bolt-ons
that no one is really sure how to change without
breaking something significant. It can be scary
to start “poking around”, however it is a must to
understand what you have, how it is connected
and integrated, and what services are impacted.
Your technology assessment must also align with
your business objectives, which have also evolved
over time—or at least since your technology was
last implemented. You will likely find that you
can shed a lot of needless weight quickly. It has
been said that customer experience is the next competitive frontier, so consider what kind
of engagement you want for your customers and assess that need based on the technology
providers in the market.
Key questions to ask during this phase:
• What is the purpose of my contact center as a whole?
• Do I have a service center? Sales center?
• Is my goal to reduce agent expense? Or drive product revenues? If both—do I have my
teams and technologies oriented in such a way to support these objectives?
• How frequently are you updating your customer interfaces?
• Does your system welcome customers by name? Does your system understand why your
customers are calling? Should it?
• It is essential to understand that customer’s expectations are more demanding in 2017
than ever before—How can I create interfaces that push the boundaries of what customers
might expect?
• Consider who in your organization might be tasked with managing and supporting ongoing
change. Are there ways that business owners might be more empowered to modify, create
and administer key customer interfaces?
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T I P # 3
Review your approach to automation
When developing your business objectives and technology, a key component is evaluating the
degree of automation offered by any existing technology platform. Self-service and automated
business processes often reduce costs while improving agent and customer productivity.
Consider what you are doing to drive overall customer automation, expand the linkages
between front-end and back-end systems to streamline the agent experiences using computer
telephony integration (CTI) , support your agents by empowering them to better service your
customers through workforce optimization (WFO) and most importantly, what systems do you
have (and desire) to measure your centers performance (Reporting)? What do you need to
add, enhance or revamp to deliver a better customer experience? By expanding automation
technology across the contact center you can also expand the areas to which the technology
itself can bring value.
Blueworx offers solutions with unmatched capability to deliver an intelligent assisted or fully
automated service flow. For decades the promise of a natural voice interface has been not only
marketed, but often implemented with less than staggering results. For the first time in more
than 20 years however, a groundbreaking new solution promises to deliver on natural speech
interactions. This new solution, better known as IBM Watson, is able to learn from millions of
interactions thus enabling the technology to finally meet customer expectations.
Due to Watson Speech’s expanded automation capability, businesses with existing
investments in Nuance or other speech platforms should strongly consider looking outside their
built grammars for speech interactions. Not only will this afford significant cost savings against
existing software and application requirements, but the new capabilities will further reduce
expenses due to the ease and simplicity of new deployments.
Every business should ask these questions in order to create a more cognitive contact center
that delivers a new level of customer experience:
• What would I do in my service channels if my existing systems weren’t holding me back?
• How can I replicate my best human-human interactions with technology snd how can I
better predict why my customers might be calling me?
• Could we leverage some of the other components of Watson to mine and derive insights
that might allow us to create dynamic, personalized service offerings for each and every
caller?
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T I P # 4
Evaluate additional services
that can be delivered from the cloud
When building the vision for the customer
experience, evaluate other applications/
services that can add value to customers and
impact the bottom line. Adding speech to self-
service applications, collaboration to advanced
applications or simply enhancing your reporting
and analytics will have material impacts on the
servicing costs within your organization. Blueworx
has an extensive portfolio of products and services
that can deliver real business results and easily
integrate with multiple contact center solutions.
Unlike most any other solution provider in the
contact center space, there is a good chance that
somewhere in your organization cloud applications
are already being leveraged. The opportunity to
migrate to the cloud will open new opportunities to take other supporting systems from the
contact center and also migrate these to the cloud. From your storage and database to real
time analytics, even taking standalone integration servers to the cloud, the opportunities are
endless and traditional barriers around networking and linkages can easily be addressed. Not
only does this present a unique opportunity for performance improvements, but like with the
cloud, the cost reductions can be significant.
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T I P # 5
Deliver real business results
As with any technology change, it is critical to
justify the costs and understand the benefits to
the customer, agents, and the bottom line.
“44% of senior executives would be willing
to write off lT legacy investments and
move straight to the cloud if they could find
a solution that provided speed to value.”
The investment needs to not only balance
the speed to which the technology can
be implemented, but also the value to the
business overall. With Blueworx, you gain
more control and can easily make changes to
support customer service initiatives, plus you receive great new features to provide ongoing
value to your business.
A cloud distribution model makes it easy to explore migration of smaller initiatives that might
be on the backlog or have been planned for ages, but haven’t yet seen the light of day. Just
because your contact center is tightly intertwined and may take a while to untangle, doesn’t
mean that you couldn’t look at focused initiatives that might deliver rapid, immediate business
value. Think of opportunities like PCI Payment card compliance or taking just one set of service
functions (e.g. Resetting a PIN) and look for ways to migrate these applications exclusively to
the cloud while working on a broader plan for migration. Not only will these endeavors prove
worthwhile in helping learn about the platform, but the rapid deployment capabilities will help
establish the longer term justification and rationalization for rapid migration.
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T I P # 6
Develop a migration roadmap
As with any complex technology undertaking, planning and thorough study will prove infinitely
valuable as your project ensues. Be sure to consider all the different technology areas that are
impacted by your contact center platform and verify that you have reviewed not only what they
do, but how they work with your other systems.
Some questions worth considering:
• How do calls get routed in your contact center?
• Are they routing directly from the Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN) or are they
going through your Public Brand Exchange (PBX)?
• Are calls first going to an Interactive Voice Response (IVR), or are they going to an IVR after
first being classified by your Automatic Call Distribution (ACD)?
• How do you view cradle to grave reporting to identify the start point and end point of every
caller interaction? Most call centers route calls between 4–5 distinct systems for each and
every call. Make sure you understand how this will work when you begin routing your calls
through a different source destination.
• Do your agents collect information about each call through a CTI link?
• Where is this data collected?
• What systems are communicating here to pass this agent to your desktop?
• How does the linkage with your existing CRM system function and how can this be
replicated within your contact center?
Workforce planning and ongoing training are essential in every high performance contact
center. Make sure to understand how call records are integrating with your WFO systems for
agent planning and scheduling, as well as your system for training and coaching. Blueworx
offers robust solutions that can integrate with your existing platforms. Make sure you have
considered how these systems will continue to function in support of your existing business
process.
Once you have a clear understanding of what you have, what you need to update or what
applications and services you need to add, you’re ready to create the roadmap. The journey is
best laid out in phases that will enable you to deliver on milestones and prove out the solution
as you go vs. an all in one cut-over. The roadmap planning should also include a roll-back plan
should the implementation of the phased migration not perform, enabling you to roll back in
minutes. With a solid implementation plan and a roll back option, this is a risk-free migration
strategy.
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T I P # 7
Consider the customer
Blueworx is passionate about the customer experience.
When building new applications or implementing new
services, thorough planning must consider today’s
user. How will they use it, interact with it, what will
their expectations be? Spend time documenting
the customer experience ‘use cases’ you want
to achieve. You can set these critical success
factors when planning and measuring the
performance and success of the migration.
As noted earlier, the cloud brings unmatched
capabilities to bear in support of your customer’s
needs. For decades businesses have explored natural
speech and routing to improve the customer experience with
limited success—Blueworx can make these possibilities a reality and finally
bring about true change in how you service your customers and how your customers
view your offerings.
It is also worth considering that real customer-impacting change doesn’t have to come in fancy
speech understanding, it can also be simple in the form of improved routing or messaging
around an interaction. Simple things like sending a post call short message service (SMS)
with call details or offering a proactive call back during a standard wait can make a big impact
to your overall service offerings. The cloud makes these capabilities simple and easy—and
without legacy systems to worry about, the traditional challenges are easily overcome.
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T I P # 8
Prove out the concept
More than any time in the history of contact center technology, the opportunity to “have an
idea” and “execute” is closer than ever before. For many businesses, getting the wholescale
buy-in to quickly move to the cloud can be time consuming and process laden. That said,
leveraging a cloud solution allows businesses to quickly prototype existing features or
functions while broader adoption support is being explored.
Some of the most common Proof of Concept (POC)
types we encounter are:
• Agile marketing driven initiatives
• Standing up dedicated service lines for new
products or capabilities
• Offering expanded service tiers for VIP / high net
worth clients
• Creating a comprehensive service scenario to
link SMS and Mobile interactions with an existing
voice flow
• Rerouting after hours or overseas calls through
more aggressive automation tiers
• Exploring linkages with new enterprise
applications that haven’t previously been linked
with your Contact Center platform
Proof of concepts serve a critical component when migrating to the cloud. The cloud makes
turning up the service easy, spending less time on the setup and configurations for specific
applications. For a POC consider selecting a minor application that could be rolled out
in production to ensure that the service aligns with your business objectives. This allows
you to test your processes for migration without impacting your existing customer service
interactions.
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T I P # 9
Optimize and measure
Like every good project, start with the end in
mind and make sure you realize that customer
touchpoints must evolve. In truly great customer
service there’s no such thing as a finish line
and customer demands will continue to grow.
As a result, your ability to gauge, measure and
understand your customer’s behavior is essential in
maintaining your strategic roadmap.
Understanding this essential concept will position
your organization to be constantly tuning and
tweaking to improve performance. As part of
the roadmap and objectives you should create
a checklist of performance factors (Automation Percentages, Net Promoter Scores, Agent
Satisfaction Scores, Abandonment Rates, Average Handle Times, etc) that enable you to
determine success or to identify and target areas where additional improvements might be
needed. Most contact centers have a dashboard of performance metrics that focus on agent
performance and overall productivity, customer engagement metrics, and of course the cost
savings factors associated with the overall project—make sure these are incorporated into your
overall plan for migrating to a cloud solution.
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Establish ongoing support
Ongoing support is a huge factor in selecting a
vendor. Understanding the support options from
your cloud vendor are often a critical factor in
selection. Cloud solutions offer the ability to take
control and manage your costs and standard
moves as well as adds and changes in your
system. However, the benefits of the cloud extend
beyond management and costs as you also gain
immediate access to new services and features
which can add to that cost savings or improved
productivity.
Migrating an existing contact center to the cloud
can be a challenging project with many moving
parts.
You want a swift, secure and smooth transition. And once you’re in the cloud, you’ll need to
evolve. Join us on the journey to the cloud and leverage the benefits that Blueworx can bring,
from our unparalleled experience, methodologies, and best practice approach to migration. Let
us unravel the complexity of migrating your contact center to the cloud and help you create the
optimal roadmap for the journey. Our team will help optimize your applications and enable you
to quickly achieve your business objectives.
The key is to find the right partner to help you create the vision and plan. Blueworx is that
partner.
We are ready to talk to you today about how to make the move to the cloud.
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Summary
The question that still remains to be answered is; how do I create a migration strategy that will
truly benefit the business? The strategy must demand business results that increase customer
satisfaction and reduce costs. Creating a plan that delivers on customer and business
expectations is to ensure you select the right partner and solution. The Blueworx cloud solution
allows for more user control and enables users to easily support changing business initiatives.
A cloud solution supported from Blueworx delivers a complete solution that offers updated
features and functionality in order to provide ongoing value to your business.
With the Blueworx portfolio, we offer a simple path forward to migration of key business
applications that may have looked impossible. Let Blueworx help you discover the possibilities
that deliver maximum value to your business.