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		<title>Rethinking the Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since their inception, call centers have been infamous for high turnover (especially in the outsource world). While this is no revolutionary statement, I recently had the realization that by my mid-twenties I had personally fired, or overseen the termination, of over 1,000 people (an average of about 200 people a year). I believe my personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving the Status Quo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One reason I love the Call Center world is that it breeds into you a passion for goal attainment. Everyday when you walk in the door you have a clearly defined set of short-term and long range objectives that must be met. You come in every morning, review your plan over a cup of coffee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agent Occupancy and Churn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been pondering lately some the practices and methodologies in the Contact Center industry that are out dated and in need of a new approach. One thing that comes to mind is how people measure and manage “Agent Occupancy”. My first lesson in Occupancy came in the summer of 1995 when I transitioned from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Things to Think About with the Future of Contact Centers</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2009/03/10/10-things-we-need-to-be-thinking-about-in-contact-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some random musing on some things we need to be thinking about and mantras we need to depart from in order to move call centers forward. Call it too much caffeine on a Monday night…&#160; Soon a Contact Center won’t have a “center” at all We’ve moved from “Calls” to “Contacts”; “Interactions” is the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture and the Customer Experience</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/12/23/culture-and-the-customer-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read the article Asia’s Call Center Woe’s that discusses an Asia-Pacific consumer survey about customer service. The thesis isn’t a new one: Customer Care matters now more than ever; if your consumers aren’t happy with the customer service you are providing, they will switch to your competitor.&#160; What struck me though is what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite Helps with Excel Hell</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/11/24/cisco-unified-intelligence-suite-helps-with-excel-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you know my disdain for the use of massive Excel files and what I call the “shotgun blast” approach to reporting. However, since they are a necessary evil in most environments today, I thought I’d point out how you can leverage Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite (CUIS) to automate them. One of the major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Speech&quot;</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/06/25/speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech Recognition is about identifying what people are speaking. Speech Analytics is about figuring out what people are saying. &#160; &#160; Technorati Tags: Speech Recognition,Speech Analytics,Chris Crosby. Call Center]]></description>
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		<title>The Heat Index</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/06/10/the-heat-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed yesterday on weather.com that the temperature here in Boston was a lovely 92 degrees F, but the Heat Index reflected that it felt like 98 degrees F. This sent me on a tangent that I think is analogous for the call center. Can a customer interaction look like one thing to you, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service Level vs. Cost vs. Customer Experience</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/05/29/service-level-vs-cost-vs-customer-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out at a customer site this week and overheard the following conversation from the Workforce Management Team: &#160; The difference in customer experience between 93% Service Level and 100% Service Level is negligible. But the difference in staffing cost to us is huge. &#160; Now, I&#8217;ll spare you my full rant about Service Level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Out the Garbage</title>
		<link>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/03/14/taking-out-the-report-garbage/</link>
		<comments>http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2008/03/14/taking-out-the-report-garbage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crosby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall I participated again in the ICCM Canada Keynote Panel: 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes moderated by Paul Stockford from Saddletree Research. Dave Butler over at NACC recorded the session and has been distributing the ideas presented in his monthly newsletter. I keep promising him that I&#8217;ll expand one of mine into an article [...]]]></description>
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