Introduction to Business Advocate

Introduction to Business Advocate

This section includes the following topics:

What is Business Advocate? on page 17

Business Advocate agent licensing on page 18

Business Advocate methods versus traditional methods on page 18

Combining methods to achieve wanted results on page 19

Call and agent selection on page 19

Automated agent staffing adjustments on page 20

What is Business Advocate?

Business Advocate addresses these questions:

What should this agent do next? - Business Advocate answers this question each time an agent becomes available and calls are waiting in queue. The term “should” is used deliberately because it implies a consideration of trade-offs in the decision. With Business Advocate, the answer to this question does not come from executing a set of preprogrammed directives such as "take the highest priority, oldest waiting call." Such a fixed plan does not consider consequences. Business Advocate, on the other hand, understands the consequences of the decisions it makes and the business objectives for each type of call.

Which agent should take this call? - Business Advocate answers this question when a call arrives and there are available agents waiting for calls. Business Advocate can make this decision so that workloads are distributed fairly across agents, to eliminate hot seats. Business Advocate can also promote fairer opportunities for compensation by delivering a certain predetermined mix of calls to agents.

Does the center need to adjust its operations to bring performance back to the wanted level? - Business Advocate continuously evaluates the contact center's performance to determine what the center needs to adjust to bring performance back to the wanted level. Business Advocate responds, down to the levels of an individual caller, when it detects that agent resources should be used differently to prevent a caller's wait times from being too high or to accomplish service level goals more consistently.

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