Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Elvis Presley Enterprises is counting on its supplier’s online expertise to turn its online sales numbers into a hunka, hunka, hunka burning change.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Buyers will want to mine their data differently next year. And suppliers are developing consulting practices to help all customers, not just outsourcing buyers, do just that. Here’s what’s happening in CRM outsourcing.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
ATI manufactures 400 cards for video games. Dissatisfaction with multiple suppliers led it to select a single source solution. ASP Parature improved customer satisfaction and decreased incoming call volume by 80 percent through its self-service options.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
American Ref-fuel turns garbage into electricity. It outsources everything else. Here’s how the company’s various IT suppliers work with each other to service the energy company. The result: the company that turns waste into energy doesn’t waste energy.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
At any given time of day, three ads for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center air on Los Angeles radio. The call to action is to phone a toll-free number. The hospital wants to make sure those calls are answered properly. So it outsourced its call center to a supplier specializing in healthcare.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
In the hospitality industry, a small number of travelers contribute a large portion of the revenue. Leading Hotels of the World, a marketing company for luxe hoteliers, used an ASP solution to create its loyalty program. In the process, supplier Quaero helped Leading Hotels improve its guests’ experiences.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
The American press has dissected how the offshoring trend is affecting US employment. A new study by Jones Lang LaSalle shines a spotlight on how the trend is affecting US real estate absorption. It discovered US call center absorption is shrinking. The study shows where the rents are going.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Have you called an airline or hotel and gotten an interactive voice response system (IVR) that could not answer your question? Many valued customers like you are becoming upset with this aggravating solution. Now hotels and airlines are turning to their outsourcing suppliers to find a better way.
John Harney, Business Writer
Among other factors, obsolete IT systems and an aging work force are driving government agencies to outsource more.
Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer
Credit card companies are outsourcing more than just their call centers. Dan Montgomery of Convergys explains why.
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