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Gesner Filoso
Sitel Global Marketing & Brand Director
Sitel Research and Insights
TRENDS RESHAPING THE
FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
AGE OF
EXPERIENCE
This report is the result of collaboration between Sitel’s employees
and stakeholders from around the globe. Our company is now
providing services through more than 61,000 employees in 21
countries on behalf of some of the best known brands in the world
in the most diverse number of industries with global solutions that
include customer acquisition, customer care, technical support and
social media programs.
The question we try to address in this report is: how is the Customer
Relations responding in 2015 to continued pressure on cost,
expectation for higher quality, rising complexity, and decreasing
cycle-time to respond to clients? This report will address the drivers
of trends we are observing – evolving channels and customer
experience expectations – and will provide insight into methods for
addressing the customer relationship evolution.
Who should read this document?
Customer Care and CRM Professionals, Contact Center and CRM
Leaders, Marketing Strategy VP & Directors.
Sitel Research and Insights
TRENDS RESHAPING THE
FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
AGE OF
EXPERIENCE
Gesner Filoso
Sitel Global Marketing & Brand Director
p.02
THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY When 1,500+ consumers were tested under laboratory conditions, more
than 60% said they felt their heart rate increase when they thought about
receiving great customer service. For more than 50% of those tested,
receiving great service triggered the same cerebral reactions as feeling
lovedI
.
The takeaway? When it comes to customer service, it’s not about what
consumers think, touch points, or contact length. Great service is about
feelings, it’s about experiences.
And this is not new in our industry. Intuitively, most people recognize the
value of a great customer experience. Brands that deliver them are ones that
we want to interact with as customers — that we become loyal to, and that
we recommend to our friends and family.
Our research and consulting on customer journeys shows that the most
important trend is that we have reached the time to stop the philosophical
debate about whether investing in the experience of your customers is
the right business decision. Almost 70% of companies plan to increase
their customer management spendII
and 62% of organizations view
customer experience provided through customer service as a competitive
differentiatorIII
.
This isn’t a question of beliefs anymore —the solution to broken service
delivery chains isn’t to focus on touchpoint management. Instead,
companies agree on the need to embed customer behaviors and journeys
into their strategic and operating modelsIV
.
Delivering successful journeys brings about an investment in technology, a
truly omnichannel approach, and exploring near adjacent opportunities. But
more importantly, it causes an operational and cultural shift that engages
the organization across functions and from top to bottom, generating
excitement, innovation, and a focus on continuous improvement. Many of
the previous year’s trends have now been gathered with one single purpose
– enhancing customer experience.
“Today the concept of selling
experiences is spreading beyond
theaters and theme parks.”
p.03
THE PROGRESSION OF ECONOMIC VALUE
COMMODITIES GOODS SERVICES EXPERIENCES
UNDIFFERENTIATED COMPETITIVE POSITION DIFFERENTIATED
MASS
MANUFACTURING
DISTRIBUTION AND
INFORMATION
THE ERA OF THE
CUSTOMER
According to an article from B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore published in
the Harvard Business Review Magazine, this transition from selling services to selling
experiences will be no easier for established companies to undertake and weather
than the last great economic shift, from the industrial to the service economy.
Experience shared. | sitel.com
p.04
In this context, customer services continue to grow in size and strategic
importance, creating a need for structured operations and processes and
flexible technology to adapt to change.
Of course, these trends offer just a glimpse of THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER
SERVICE, not the entire picture. But they’re manifestations of the shifting
consumer expectation, technology movements, ideas, and outcomes that
will redefine great service in 2015 and beyond.
Technology & Innovation
The customer experience center of the future will be a confluence of the
cloud, hardware innovation, shorter release cycles, and IT’s alignment with
the experience journey.
As human lives become increasingly entrenched and interconnected with
the solutions, the consumer demand for simplified service and support will
continue to increase exponentially.
Customer Service Operations
What will the operations of the future look like? What roles will third-party
providers, continuous improvement and remote management tools play?
Employee Management
Explore the future of employment, including acquiring and retaining talent
and performance management, gamification, and what it will mean to be an
employee of tomorrow’s customer service.
Global Sourcing
How will our industry change by 2020? What is the real cost-benefit of
a multi-sourcing model? Can a multi-sourcing strategy protect customer
experience? What role will Work@Home play in the new environment?
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Info-sense, connected experience ecosystem,
mobility, face time, any time, winds of cloud, social
media
CUSTOMER SERVICE OPERATIONS
Customer effort, proactive customer service,
Customer experience is moving to recentralization,
self-support
EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT
Analytics & workforce intelligence, generational
shift, gamification
GLOBAL SOURCING
Automation-enabled self-service, offshore,
nearshore, home based agents
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Experience shared.
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION One of the biggest changes to affect the contact center has been the shift
in control from organization to consumer. This transition is fueled by the
ways that interactions are handled and the increased reach and influence
of the customer voice. Empowered by the continually growing number of
faster and more dynamic web and mobile channels, consumers are more
interconnected and freely share their experiences with businesses than
ever before. The increase in customers’ control of their experience will
continue to challenge the processes, organizational structures, and systems
that companies have put in place to communicate with customers, and will
require a change in corporate mindsets as well.
Consumers prefer word-of-mouth and distrust corporate communications;
more than 70% trust online reviews, while less than 14% trust advertising.
This communication evolution has served to not only increase consumer
expectation, but contact management complexity as well. Since customers
expect a consistent level of service from an organization at any given time,
regardless of their initial point of entry, companies need to provide a holistic
view of the customer across all divisions, business areas, and even branches.
Companies must be at the right place, at the right time, on the right channel.
Here are some of the top trends that customer service leaders need to
understand and address in order to stay competitive and deliver a great
customer experience.
Info-sense
Customers are demanding new levels of quality experiences, based on the
technology available. In 2014, 36%XX
of global consumers were willing to
share their current location with retailers via GPS – that’s almost double
the number in 2013. With the evolution of Big Data initiatives and new
technologies, consumers will increasingly expect the use of real-time data to
shape and enhance the service they receive.
Connected Experience Ecosystem
On the other hand, the Internet of Connected Products (IoCP) is enabling
digital connectivity among companies’ customers, partners, and employees.
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p.06
“In 2014, 36% of global consumers were
willing to share their current location with
retailers via GPS”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
36%
p.07
Social media, omnichannel, mobility, and other trends come together with
connected products driving deeper engagement, enabling companies
to gain better business insight, and enable never-imagined experience
opportunities and revenue growth.
Enterprises are embracing technology as a catalyst to create new business
opportunities — new markets, new products, new services, and new
areas of growth. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents
an evolution in which factories are instantly addressing production line
problems, hospitals are monitoring and regulating pacemakers and
utilities companies are proactively adjusting temperature and lighting
according to a customer’s requests and preferences, to name just a few
examples.
Furthermore, as the number of connected internet devices continues to
grow exponentially (by 2020, there will be 75 billion internet-connected
devices according to Morgan Stanley), organizations like Sitel will be
able to send, receive, gather, analyze, and respond to events from any
connected device, increasing sensibly the chance to enhance their
experience, build trust and strengthen customer relationships.
Key Takeaways:
•	While social, mobile, analytics, and cloud still drive customer
relations’ trends, the focus now is on new ways that emerging
technologies like IoT are being woven into the next generation of
business strategies across almost every industry.
•	Organizations looking to reimagine themselves in a technology-
driven world set forth on their journey to becoming digital
businesses. Many organizations were experimenting, while others
were making larger investments. But all are now counting on
technology to create stronger customer relationships and fuel their
next wave of growth.
•	BPO companies like Sitel are investing in research and solutions
to help put the Internet of Things to work for our clients by giving
them the ability to:
•	 Figure out how to connect millions of contacts, objects and events,
converting the data into tangible business results with local decision
making.
•	 Support the development of new processes and systems of interaction
with people, mobile devices, sensors, machines and applications, creating a
truly omnichannel environment.
•	 Reimagine our business and improve customer experiences by receiving
and responding to events in near-real time (e.g; Disney MagicBand business
case)
Mobility
According to a leading research firm, the incremental amount of traffic
being added to the mobile internet by 2016 alone is approximately three
times the estimated size of the entire mobile internet in 2012. Today,
more than 50% of internet users in the U.S., U.K. and Japan access the
web via a mobile device. Just four years from now, one billion consumers
will have smartphones.
The proliferation of smartphones and mobile devices will continue to
super-charge customers’ expectations for anytime, anywhere, on-demand
support for any problem. The first one to effectively solve a customer’s
problem will win. Mobile will also present new and unique opportunities
for marketers to take advantage of location data to provide timely and
compelling offers. This should provide for proactive service notifications
based on proximity as well a improve customer experience by reducing
effort. Businesses must be prepared to both support and innovate as
mobile customer expectations grow.
With more than half of users adopting smartphones around the world,
customers are gravitating to mobile web and custom applications
(apps) as their primary portal for services and the main method of
communication. Interestingly, new challenges spring up around
integration of the devices with other systems, carrier issues, hardware
p.08
“Today, more than 50% of internet users in
the U.S., U.K. and Japan access the web via
mobile device”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
50%
p.09
and software issues and point-of-sale issues, etc. All of these new issues
are increasingly complex and in many cases cross-ownership between
device manufacturer, carrier, app designer or reseller. It is still unclear
who will own the resolution for technical issues.
That said, well beyond the bespoke traditional outbound telemarketing
campaign, the years ahead will see many businesses transforming core
support processes to optimize them for creating revenue in the mobile
world. 69%of business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations surveyed
consider contact centers to be critical to revenue generationV
.
Consumers have amazing options at their fingertips, enabled by
information, services, and the ability to shop from anywhere via any
number of personal technology devices. According to Forrester Research,
more than 40%of Western Europeans purchase goods online, with
Germany, Switzerland and France all reporting more than 50% of
consumers doing so. In the US, 67% of consumers currently shop online,
using four or five web outletsVI
.
Executives across the enterprise are recognizing that every touchpoint
must first retain a customer and then turn positive experiences into
improvements to the bottom line. In recent researchVII
, it was noted that
companies need to become far more innovative, rebooting their strategy
to emphasize quality and customer experience, not price. In a fast-
moving and ultra-competitive marketplace, the customer service agents
who are listening and engaging are the part of the business creating
meaningful value at moments that matter.
Face time, any time.
Service interactions via video will also continue to grow as brands strive to
induce a human element into the conversation. This doesn’t have to be
about dealing with customer questions or complaints in a more engaging
way, but it’s about make offering new experiences, trials and tests via
webcam. According to some top tier retailers (e.g; Amazon) among tablet
owners, 75% of customer service interactions now come via the “Video”
button.
Winds of Cloud
Gartner says the worldwide cloud services market surpassed $109
billion in 2012VIII
and the demand for managed services keeps growing
significantly, outpacing the traditional deployment model of buying and
managing unified communications and collaboration technology onsite. A
growing number of companies are choosing hosted collaboration services,
letting providers host dedicated equipment for them, or paying a license
fee to have collaboration services delivered by a service provider over the
cloud.
The key to taking advantage of this growth will be understanding the
nuances of the opportunity within service segments and geographic
regions, and then prioritizing investments in line with the opportunities.
The ability to dynamically provision, pay, and scale on-demand is
changing how most businesses will deploy IT in the future. Cloud
computing will make it possible to turn on services when needed and shut
them down when they’re not.
Social Media
One of the most significant trends over the last three years is the rise of
social media outside marketing and inside customer service. Social media
is moving beyond contacts and interactions to a culture of community
and collaboration for the most progressive companies. More than 23%
of consumers from the age of 18-32 prefer social media when learning
about products. Consumers are no longer relying solely on the traditional
channels of phone and email. They are interacting online with peers over
sponsored communities and over the public cloud via Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, and Pinterest.
Consumers and consumer groups are setting up social media and other
online advice services themselves. Approximately 83% of consumers tell
their friends if they get a good deal, demonstrating that the demand for
advice from fellow customers is present and strong enough to influence
companies around the globeIX
.
p.10
“More than 23% of consumers from the age
of 18-32 prefer social media when learning
about products.
Experience shared. | sitel.com
23%
p.11
Experience shared.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
OPERATIONS
Customers want more than products and companies must deliver more than
goods. By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the
key brand differentiatorX
and already by 2015 smart brands will see delivery
as much more than functional.
Customer service ranks as the #1 factor influencing how much a consumer
trusts a company, but 92% of companies reported a decline in customer
satisfaction, with consumers most disappointed by inconsistent service.
New Customer Service Operations need to develop a culture of continuous
improvement, in which everyone keeps a sharp watch for opportunities to
improve the overall system – but what are the key elements to measure?
In a business environment where simplified marketing metrics have the
strongest appeal in the boardroom, the Customer Effort Score (CES) follows
Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a desirable way to quickly understand if the
organization is delivering on the customer experienceXI
. However, there is
no silver bullet; simplified metrics do not tell the whole story, and decision
makers may ignore the blind spots at their peril. This is true of NPS and is
also the case with CES.
Customer Effort
One of the key oversights organizations face when applying Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) is that the customer metrics end up defining the customer
experience strategy. This paper aims to explain Customer Effort and how
it applies to service delivery in organizations, its role in the constellation of
customer metrics, and generally how to ensure customer experience metrics
are enablers of the business strategy rather than an end in themselves.
Customer Effort tends to only apply to customer interactions and not to the
whole customer experience, leading to a raft of reasons why a Customer
Effort Score may not be appropriate as the only customer experience
measure on which to rely.
Rather, Customer Effort is a concept and if CES is used, it should be seen as
complementary to core metrics like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and
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NPS, but by itself it is not the answer to effective management of the
entire customer experience.
Proactive Customer Service
Financier Warren Buffett has noted, “Price is what you pay; value is
what you get.” Customers have shown time and time again that they
are willing to pay more for higher perceived value in any market sector
and companies are planning to monetize this trend. Proactive customer
service providers are anticipating needs, allowing companies to provide
greatly differentiated, high-touch services that reinforce the company’s
brand identity and customer value proposition. 2015 will continue to
see companies increasing their spend on proactive customer service to
delight customers with convenient, useful information at their moment of
greatest need.
Customer Experience is Moving to Recentralization
Multi-channel is quickly becoming passé as omni-channel gives way to
the power of the customer to drive interactions. For 10 years, businesses
have aggressively been chasing new channels and layering them on
operationally, trying to engineer to the lowest cost to serve. Expect
customer service organizations to better align their channel strategy
this year to support their customers’ needs. Expect them to also work on
guiding customers to the right channel based on the complexity and time
sensitivity of interactions.
Logic has dictated that the more calls we push to IVR, web self-service,
and automation the lower our cost and the better our business. This
logical approach, however, has been flipped on its head with the new
customer experiences pressure that now exists. In a recent research
report, 86% of customers said that they will pay MORE for a better
customer experienceXII
. This means that each interaction across
channels and over time must be consistent, positive and on target with a
company’s brand promise.
Social customer communities, multichannel knowledge management,
mobile virtual agents, and natural language processing will have the
the biggest impact on the customer service experience in the coming
years. Brands that don’t innovate around these trends—and that fail
to serve customers where, when, and how they want to be served—will
suffer. The winners will be the businesses that learn to run a thread
through all channels and experiences by centralizing with omni-channel
strategies.
Self-support
The Forrester survey found that 44% of respondents believe the ability
to get quick answers from a live chat representative during an online
purchase is “one of the most important features a website can offer.”
But this is not about “online chat.” Across all demographics, voice is still
the primary communication channel used, but is quickly followed by
self-service channels. Expect companies to keep investing to streamline
development and reduce ongoing maintenance efforts with an
architecture that enables reuse of core automation components across
multiple self-service channels.
Advanced IVR applications and Visual IVRs enable companies to provide
low-cost personalized multichannel self-service 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. Technologies such as speech recognition and personalization
serve to offer a more natural, effective, and less frustrating interaction
than traditional touch-tone systems. Many customers prefer to complete
account management tasks, pay bills, and place service orders via an
automated system rather than wait for a live representative.
p.13
“... 44% of people believe the ability
to get quick answers from a live chat
representative during an online purchase
is “one of the most important features a
website can offer”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
44%
p.14
Experience shared.
EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT No matter your industry, or the size of your company, one tenet holds true:
No customer service strategy can be effective unless the front-line people
are motivated and trained to do so. Motivation and training is, of course, the
natural domain of HR, which typically conducts annual, monthly and even
hourly performance reviews, sets personal goals, and manages employee
incentive and competency development programs.
However, we can also expect to see companies investing in a proprietary
suite of technologies, training processes and tools in the areas of talent
acquisition, learning services, knowledge management, workforce
collaboration and performance optimization. Innovation in the field of
human capital management is one of the key capabilities mapped by top
tier companies in the industry to enable a consistent, scalable and flexible
workforce.
Here are some of the top trends that customer service leaders are pointing
as critical in order to stay attractive to employees and enhance their
employee’s satisfaction.
Analytics & Workforce Intelligence
In today’s world, customer service and human resources leaders understand
that data-driven solutions can improve decisions about talent, and, as a
result, revenues and profits. Companies are now focusing on the use of
data-driven insights to develop actionable plans to better recruit, retain and
motivate employees.
Market demand for Workforce Intelligence is on the rise as business leaders
increasingly recognize that recruiting, retaining, and motivating the right
talent is critical to business growth and prosperity. Equally important is the
ability to access and analyze the right information to support talent-related
business decisions.
On other hand, linking employee training to companies’ business strategies
will still be critical. However, simply spending more on training programs
won’t automatically translate into enhanced productivity. Rather, Workforce
Intelligence solutions will clearly define goals and measure the return on
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“... 69% of millennials believe office
attendance is unnecessary on a regular
basis.”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
69%
p.16
investment that companies expect from learning initiatives. By making
program goals and program outcomes tangible, companies can ensure
tangible improvements.
Generational Shift
By 2015, millennials will be the majority representation of the workforce,
as baby boomers retire in greater and greater numbersXIII
.
Millennials are known to have significantly different expectations for their
employment experience, forcing HR to face challenges of engaging and
retaining a new profile of employees, while also ensuring the knowledge
and skills of retiring baby boomers are maintained. For instance, 69% of
Millennials believe office attendance is unnecessary on a regular basis.
Companies will look to more sophisticated methodologies, tools and
processes to better predict, incorporate and react quickly to the changing
workforce in order to understand how to best motivate, train, and retain
workers.
Gamification
Industry leaders recognize that contact centers typically have low levels
of task discretion and mode rate levels of interaction task, and few
contact centers use quality improvement teams and autonomous work
groups extensively. This is the case regardless of the education level
of the employees. Moreover, performance appraisal and performance
monitoring are used extensivelyXIV
.
Yet, on the other hand, there is a much greater variability between
contact centers in the extent to which they use other human resource
practices, such as sophisticated selection, extensive training and
performance-related pay. Furthermore, the use of these other human
resource practices is not strongly associated with the way jobs are
designed. But this scenario is rapidly changing.
Everywhere we turn, it seems there are experts claiming that the best path
forward is to engage people with elements of competitive play.
Gamification has now been established as a valid engagement tool in
the enterprise to drive workforce and customer engagement and drive
business growth.
Customer service organizations have a lot of experience with goal setting,
rules, and incentives. What the industry hasn’t figured out is how to
align work with personal passion and commitment. The big change on
Employee Management practices is based on the result of some research
that states we enjoy games and spend so much time playing them
because it is our choiceXV
. We volunteer to enter their fray.
Meanwhile, the problem with work is that so much of it feels involuntary.
Certainly no one forced us or a customer service employee to take a
particular job, but whatever sense of excitement or mission we felt as a
new recruit has been lost in the daily grind.
Applying game design in the workplace can bring back the thrill of putting
points on the board, beating the odds, and accomplishing important
goals. Leveraging game mechanics can unleash passion, potential, and
personal commitment. Games can help transform the weak links of social
media connections and conversations into purposeful networks.
The technology research firm Gartner predicts gamification will be used
in 25% of redesigned business processes by 2015. This will grow to more
than a $2.8 billion business by 2016, and 70% of Global 2000 businesses
will be managing at least one “gamified” application or system in the
following years.
p.17
“... gamification will be used in 25% of
redesigned business processes by 2015”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
25%
25%
p.18
Experience shared.
GLOBAL SOURCING Global sourcing (offshore services) is expected to grow to a $500 billion
industry by 2020XVI
. Despite the political pressure, the popularity of offshore
outsourcing is still growing rapidly, spurring innovative relationship models
with blended domestic, nearshore and offshore support. Companies that
understand and embrace the research and investment required for successful
offshore sourcing will reap great rewards, while minimizing risk.
The annual Offshoring Network Survey XVII
results show increasing demand
for engineering, product development, and research and development
activities. Consequently, there will be a significant shift in the volume
of service functions from developed to developing countries that have
socioeconomic and political stability, access to a competent human resource
base and rock-solid infrastructure. However, to most successful companies,
outsourcing is not only about offshoring to one low-cost location, it’s about
blending onsite, home-based, offshore and nearshore capabilities, supported
by a proven global operations model.
Automation-enabled Self-service the First line of Satisfaction
Customers expect to be able to self-serve on the web or in the IVR without
human interaction/escalation.
Offshore is as Essential as Ever for Scale in a Cost Competitive world
With nearly 500 million Spanish speakers, 400 million English speakers,
100 million German and 100 million French speakers, it is important to
have global language solutions that will scale cost effectively. Mature and
proven operating centers exist in safe and secure countries. The sourcing
of customer experience management jobs is driving the globalization that
is enhancing the stability of economies and cultures by providing jobs and
education.
Nearshore is Key to Business Continuity and Critical Language Support
In any operation of significant scale there is a need for geographic
diversification to ensure operating stability with redundancy and separation.
Nearshore solutions across the globe offer customer experience operations
with close proximity that complement larger scale operations in lower cost
offshore destinations. Central America, for example, is an ideal offshoring
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“... currently 12% of contact centers with
formal workforce management programs
are utilizing home-based agents”
Experience shared. | sitel.com
12%
12%
53%
USGlobal
p.20
location for U.S. and Canadian businesses. With compatible time zones
and short flight times, these locations can seamlessly provide quality, cost-
effective customer experiences.
Homeshore capability must set the standard for service expectation.
Domestic customer experience operations are vital to a large scale customer
experience operation as a benchmark for global operations and as an
enterprise leader to establish standards.
Home-Based Agents Complete the Chain
The time is right for home-based agents to massively take off and reach a
new level of maturity. Technologies have addressed bandwidth, security and
reliability concerns. It is becoming common for home-based agent positions
to meet or exceed the security standards of a brick-and-mortar site. The
adoption curve has reached a critical mass and work-at-home employees
exceeded 100,000 in 2013. Added pressure to bring higher value service
back from offshore locations is also a major driver for adding home agents.
As transformation initiatives evolve, many will include home-based agents
to fill in the complex parts of a complete solution. Home-based agents will
fill in the peak staffing requirements with part-time labor and will provide
specialty agents with unique training and language capabilities. The more
complicated the role to staff, the more likely home-based agents will fit the
bill and fill the role.
A recent benchmark reportXVIII
shows that currently 12% of contact centers
with formal workforce management programs are utilizing home-based
agents. According to the National Association of Call Centers, 53%of
US contact centers already have some portion of their agents working
from home. As the job of an agent becomes more complex, moving to an
home-based agents model is one way many companies are finding a more
educated, stable workforce — wherever they live.
REFERENCES
I
American Express Service Study, September 2013
II
2014 Call Center IQ , Call Center Executive Priorities Report
III
Deloitte, 2013 Global Contact Center Survey
IV
“The truth about customer experience,” by Ewan Duncan, Conor Jones, and Alex
Rawson, Harvard Business Review, September 2013.
V
Source: Loudhouse Research Survey: Call Centers Are Expected to Create
Revenue,- December 22, 2010
VI
US Online Retail Forecast, 2010 To 2015, Forrester Research, Inc., February 2011
VII
“Customers take control”, December 2011, PWC
VIII
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, September 2012
IX
According to JWT Intelligence (December 2010)
X
Walker, Customers 2020 Report
XI
How to use Customer Effort as a Customer Experience Measure, GFK
XII
2011 Customer Experience Impact (CEI) Report, RightNow
XIII
The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics
XIV
David Holman, Stephen Wood, Chris Stride, The Institute of Work Psychology
University of Sheffield
XV
“If All of Work Were Gamified”, Saul Kaplan
XVI
International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol. 3, No.
1, February 2012
XVII
International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol. 3, No.
1, February 2012
XVIII
“Workforce Management in the Contact Center: Optimizing Agent Scheduling
and Productivity to Improve Customer Experience Results, January 2012
IXX
“The New Workplace Currency It’s Not Just Salary Anymore”, Cisco Study,
November 2011
XX
September 2014, http://trendwatching.com, “The future os customer service”
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ABOUT SITEL
Great customer experience starts with great people that are
well trained and equipped to address the needs and add value
to your customers. Keeping the promise of better experiences
is how Sitel is helping the largest brands in the world retain and
grow their customer base.
As a leading global outsourcing service providers, Sitel combines
knowledge sharing, a ‘people first’ culture and unparalleled
excellence at both the global and local level. Whether you
partner with us or work for us, you will discover what it takes to
deliver outstanding customer experiences.
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AGE OF EXPERIENCE, TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE, by Gesner Filoso

  • 1. Experience shared. Gesner Filoso Sitel Global Marketing & Brand Director Sitel Research and Insights TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE
  • 2. This report is the result of collaboration between Sitel’s employees and stakeholders from around the globe. Our company is now providing services through more than 61,000 employees in 21 countries on behalf of some of the best known brands in the world in the most diverse number of industries with global solutions that include customer acquisition, customer care, technical support and social media programs. The question we try to address in this report is: how is the Customer Relations responding in 2015 to continued pressure on cost, expectation for higher quality, rising complexity, and decreasing cycle-time to respond to clients? This report will address the drivers of trends we are observing – evolving channels and customer experience expectations – and will provide insight into methods for addressing the customer relationship evolution. Who should read this document? Customer Care and CRM Professionals, Contact Center and CRM Leaders, Marketing Strategy VP & Directors. Sitel Research and Insights TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE Gesner Filoso Sitel Global Marketing & Brand Director p.02
  • 3. THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY When 1,500+ consumers were tested under laboratory conditions, more than 60% said they felt their heart rate increase when they thought about receiving great customer service. For more than 50% of those tested, receiving great service triggered the same cerebral reactions as feeling lovedI . The takeaway? When it comes to customer service, it’s not about what consumers think, touch points, or contact length. Great service is about feelings, it’s about experiences. And this is not new in our industry. Intuitively, most people recognize the value of a great customer experience. Brands that deliver them are ones that we want to interact with as customers — that we become loyal to, and that we recommend to our friends and family. Our research and consulting on customer journeys shows that the most important trend is that we have reached the time to stop the philosophical debate about whether investing in the experience of your customers is the right business decision. Almost 70% of companies plan to increase their customer management spendII and 62% of organizations view customer experience provided through customer service as a competitive differentiatorIII . This isn’t a question of beliefs anymore —the solution to broken service delivery chains isn’t to focus on touchpoint management. Instead, companies agree on the need to embed customer behaviors and journeys into their strategic and operating modelsIV . Delivering successful journeys brings about an investment in technology, a truly omnichannel approach, and exploring near adjacent opportunities. But more importantly, it causes an operational and cultural shift that engages the organization across functions and from top to bottom, generating excitement, innovation, and a focus on continuous improvement. Many of the previous year’s trends have now been gathered with one single purpose – enhancing customer experience. “Today the concept of selling experiences is spreading beyond theaters and theme parks.” p.03
  • 4. THE PROGRESSION OF ECONOMIC VALUE COMMODITIES GOODS SERVICES EXPERIENCES UNDIFFERENTIATED COMPETITIVE POSITION DIFFERENTIATED MASS MANUFACTURING DISTRIBUTION AND INFORMATION THE ERA OF THE CUSTOMER According to an article from B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore published in the Harvard Business Review Magazine, this transition from selling services to selling experiences will be no easier for established companies to undertake and weather than the last great economic shift, from the industrial to the service economy. Experience shared. | sitel.com p.04
  • 5. In this context, customer services continue to grow in size and strategic importance, creating a need for structured operations and processes and flexible technology to adapt to change. Of course, these trends offer just a glimpse of THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE, not the entire picture. But they’re manifestations of the shifting consumer expectation, technology movements, ideas, and outcomes that will redefine great service in 2015 and beyond. Technology & Innovation The customer experience center of the future will be a confluence of the cloud, hardware innovation, shorter release cycles, and IT’s alignment with the experience journey. As human lives become increasingly entrenched and interconnected with the solutions, the consumer demand for simplified service and support will continue to increase exponentially. Customer Service Operations What will the operations of the future look like? What roles will third-party providers, continuous improvement and remote management tools play? Employee Management Explore the future of employment, including acquiring and retaining talent and performance management, gamification, and what it will mean to be an employee of tomorrow’s customer service. Global Sourcing How will our industry change by 2020? What is the real cost-benefit of a multi-sourcing model? Can a multi-sourcing strategy protect customer experience? What role will Work@Home play in the new environment? TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Info-sense, connected experience ecosystem, mobility, face time, any time, winds of cloud, social media CUSTOMER SERVICE OPERATIONS Customer effort, proactive customer service, Customer experience is moving to recentralization, self-support EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT Analytics & workforce intelligence, generational shift, gamification GLOBAL SOURCING Automation-enabled self-service, offshore, nearshore, home based agents p.05 P.06 P.12 P.15 P.19
  • 6. Experience shared. TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION One of the biggest changes to affect the contact center has been the shift in control from organization to consumer. This transition is fueled by the ways that interactions are handled and the increased reach and influence of the customer voice. Empowered by the continually growing number of faster and more dynamic web and mobile channels, consumers are more interconnected and freely share their experiences with businesses than ever before. The increase in customers’ control of their experience will continue to challenge the processes, organizational structures, and systems that companies have put in place to communicate with customers, and will require a change in corporate mindsets as well. Consumers prefer word-of-mouth and distrust corporate communications; more than 70% trust online reviews, while less than 14% trust advertising. This communication evolution has served to not only increase consumer expectation, but contact management complexity as well. Since customers expect a consistent level of service from an organization at any given time, regardless of their initial point of entry, companies need to provide a holistic view of the customer across all divisions, business areas, and even branches. Companies must be at the right place, at the right time, on the right channel. Here are some of the top trends that customer service leaders need to understand and address in order to stay competitive and deliver a great customer experience. Info-sense Customers are demanding new levels of quality experiences, based on the technology available. In 2014, 36%XX of global consumers were willing to share their current location with retailers via GPS – that’s almost double the number in 2013. With the evolution of Big Data initiatives and new technologies, consumers will increasingly expect the use of real-time data to shape and enhance the service they receive. Connected Experience Ecosystem On the other hand, the Internet of Connected Products (IoCP) is enabling digital connectivity among companies’ customers, partners, and employees. TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE p.06
  • 7. “In 2014, 36% of global consumers were willing to share their current location with retailers via GPS” Experience shared. | sitel.com 36% p.07
  • 8. Social media, omnichannel, mobility, and other trends come together with connected products driving deeper engagement, enabling companies to gain better business insight, and enable never-imagined experience opportunities and revenue growth. Enterprises are embracing technology as a catalyst to create new business opportunities — new markets, new products, new services, and new areas of growth. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents an evolution in which factories are instantly addressing production line problems, hospitals are monitoring and regulating pacemakers and utilities companies are proactively adjusting temperature and lighting according to a customer’s requests and preferences, to name just a few examples. Furthermore, as the number of connected internet devices continues to grow exponentially (by 2020, there will be 75 billion internet-connected devices according to Morgan Stanley), organizations like Sitel will be able to send, receive, gather, analyze, and respond to events from any connected device, increasing sensibly the chance to enhance their experience, build trust and strengthen customer relationships. Key Takeaways: • While social, mobile, analytics, and cloud still drive customer relations’ trends, the focus now is on new ways that emerging technologies like IoT are being woven into the next generation of business strategies across almost every industry. • Organizations looking to reimagine themselves in a technology- driven world set forth on their journey to becoming digital businesses. Many organizations were experimenting, while others were making larger investments. But all are now counting on technology to create stronger customer relationships and fuel their next wave of growth. • BPO companies like Sitel are investing in research and solutions to help put the Internet of Things to work for our clients by giving them the ability to: • Figure out how to connect millions of contacts, objects and events, converting the data into tangible business results with local decision making. • Support the development of new processes and systems of interaction with people, mobile devices, sensors, machines and applications, creating a truly omnichannel environment. • Reimagine our business and improve customer experiences by receiving and responding to events in near-real time (e.g; Disney MagicBand business case) Mobility According to a leading research firm, the incremental amount of traffic being added to the mobile internet by 2016 alone is approximately three times the estimated size of the entire mobile internet in 2012. Today, more than 50% of internet users in the U.S., U.K. and Japan access the web via a mobile device. Just four years from now, one billion consumers will have smartphones. The proliferation of smartphones and mobile devices will continue to super-charge customers’ expectations for anytime, anywhere, on-demand support for any problem. The first one to effectively solve a customer’s problem will win. Mobile will also present new and unique opportunities for marketers to take advantage of location data to provide timely and compelling offers. This should provide for proactive service notifications based on proximity as well a improve customer experience by reducing effort. Businesses must be prepared to both support and innovate as mobile customer expectations grow. With more than half of users adopting smartphones around the world, customers are gravitating to mobile web and custom applications (apps) as their primary portal for services and the main method of communication. Interestingly, new challenges spring up around integration of the devices with other systems, carrier issues, hardware p.08
  • 9. “Today, more than 50% of internet users in the U.S., U.K. and Japan access the web via mobile device” Experience shared. | sitel.com 50% p.09
  • 10. and software issues and point-of-sale issues, etc. All of these new issues are increasingly complex and in many cases cross-ownership between device manufacturer, carrier, app designer or reseller. It is still unclear who will own the resolution for technical issues. That said, well beyond the bespoke traditional outbound telemarketing campaign, the years ahead will see many businesses transforming core support processes to optimize them for creating revenue in the mobile world. 69%of business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations surveyed consider contact centers to be critical to revenue generationV . Consumers have amazing options at their fingertips, enabled by information, services, and the ability to shop from anywhere via any number of personal technology devices. According to Forrester Research, more than 40%of Western Europeans purchase goods online, with Germany, Switzerland and France all reporting more than 50% of consumers doing so. In the US, 67% of consumers currently shop online, using four or five web outletsVI . Executives across the enterprise are recognizing that every touchpoint must first retain a customer and then turn positive experiences into improvements to the bottom line. In recent researchVII , it was noted that companies need to become far more innovative, rebooting their strategy to emphasize quality and customer experience, not price. In a fast- moving and ultra-competitive marketplace, the customer service agents who are listening and engaging are the part of the business creating meaningful value at moments that matter. Face time, any time. Service interactions via video will also continue to grow as brands strive to induce a human element into the conversation. This doesn’t have to be about dealing with customer questions or complaints in a more engaging way, but it’s about make offering new experiences, trials and tests via webcam. According to some top tier retailers (e.g; Amazon) among tablet owners, 75% of customer service interactions now come via the “Video” button. Winds of Cloud Gartner says the worldwide cloud services market surpassed $109 billion in 2012VIII and the demand for managed services keeps growing significantly, outpacing the traditional deployment model of buying and managing unified communications and collaboration technology onsite. A growing number of companies are choosing hosted collaboration services, letting providers host dedicated equipment for them, or paying a license fee to have collaboration services delivered by a service provider over the cloud. The key to taking advantage of this growth will be understanding the nuances of the opportunity within service segments and geographic regions, and then prioritizing investments in line with the opportunities. The ability to dynamically provision, pay, and scale on-demand is changing how most businesses will deploy IT in the future. Cloud computing will make it possible to turn on services when needed and shut them down when they’re not. Social Media One of the most significant trends over the last three years is the rise of social media outside marketing and inside customer service. Social media is moving beyond contacts and interactions to a culture of community and collaboration for the most progressive companies. More than 23% of consumers from the age of 18-32 prefer social media when learning about products. Consumers are no longer relying solely on the traditional channels of phone and email. They are interacting online with peers over sponsored communities and over the public cloud via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Consumers and consumer groups are setting up social media and other online advice services themselves. Approximately 83% of consumers tell their friends if they get a good deal, demonstrating that the demand for advice from fellow customers is present and strong enough to influence companies around the globeIX . p.10
  • 11. “More than 23% of consumers from the age of 18-32 prefer social media when learning about products. Experience shared. | sitel.com 23% p.11
  • 12. Experience shared. CUSTOMER SERVICE OPERATIONS Customers want more than products and companies must deliver more than goods. By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiatorX and already by 2015 smart brands will see delivery as much more than functional. Customer service ranks as the #1 factor influencing how much a consumer trusts a company, but 92% of companies reported a decline in customer satisfaction, with consumers most disappointed by inconsistent service. New Customer Service Operations need to develop a culture of continuous improvement, in which everyone keeps a sharp watch for opportunities to improve the overall system – but what are the key elements to measure? In a business environment where simplified marketing metrics have the strongest appeal in the boardroom, the Customer Effort Score (CES) follows Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a desirable way to quickly understand if the organization is delivering on the customer experienceXI . However, there is no silver bullet; simplified metrics do not tell the whole story, and decision makers may ignore the blind spots at their peril. This is true of NPS and is also the case with CES. Customer Effort One of the key oversights organizations face when applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is that the customer metrics end up defining the customer experience strategy. This paper aims to explain Customer Effort and how it applies to service delivery in organizations, its role in the constellation of customer metrics, and generally how to ensure customer experience metrics are enablers of the business strategy rather than an end in themselves. Customer Effort tends to only apply to customer interactions and not to the whole customer experience, leading to a raft of reasons why a Customer Effort Score may not be appropriate as the only customer experience measure on which to rely. Rather, Customer Effort is a concept and if CES is used, it should be seen as complementary to core metrics like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE p.12
  • 13. NPS, but by itself it is not the answer to effective management of the entire customer experience. Proactive Customer Service Financier Warren Buffett has noted, “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” Customers have shown time and time again that they are willing to pay more for higher perceived value in any market sector and companies are planning to monetize this trend. Proactive customer service providers are anticipating needs, allowing companies to provide greatly differentiated, high-touch services that reinforce the company’s brand identity and customer value proposition. 2015 will continue to see companies increasing their spend on proactive customer service to delight customers with convenient, useful information at their moment of greatest need. Customer Experience is Moving to Recentralization Multi-channel is quickly becoming passé as omni-channel gives way to the power of the customer to drive interactions. For 10 years, businesses have aggressively been chasing new channels and layering them on operationally, trying to engineer to the lowest cost to serve. Expect customer service organizations to better align their channel strategy this year to support their customers’ needs. Expect them to also work on guiding customers to the right channel based on the complexity and time sensitivity of interactions. Logic has dictated that the more calls we push to IVR, web self-service, and automation the lower our cost and the better our business. This logical approach, however, has been flipped on its head with the new customer experiences pressure that now exists. In a recent research report, 86% of customers said that they will pay MORE for a better customer experienceXII . This means that each interaction across channels and over time must be consistent, positive and on target with a company’s brand promise. Social customer communities, multichannel knowledge management, mobile virtual agents, and natural language processing will have the the biggest impact on the customer service experience in the coming years. Brands that don’t innovate around these trends—and that fail to serve customers where, when, and how they want to be served—will suffer. The winners will be the businesses that learn to run a thread through all channels and experiences by centralizing with omni-channel strategies. Self-support The Forrester survey found that 44% of respondents believe the ability to get quick answers from a live chat representative during an online purchase is “one of the most important features a website can offer.” But this is not about “online chat.” Across all demographics, voice is still the primary communication channel used, but is quickly followed by self-service channels. Expect companies to keep investing to streamline development and reduce ongoing maintenance efforts with an architecture that enables reuse of core automation components across multiple self-service channels. Advanced IVR applications and Visual IVRs enable companies to provide low-cost personalized multichannel self-service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Technologies such as speech recognition and personalization serve to offer a more natural, effective, and less frustrating interaction than traditional touch-tone systems. Many customers prefer to complete account management tasks, pay bills, and place service orders via an automated system rather than wait for a live representative. p.13
  • 14. “... 44% of people believe the ability to get quick answers from a live chat representative during an online purchase is “one of the most important features a website can offer” Experience shared. | sitel.com 44% p.14
  • 15. Experience shared. EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT No matter your industry, or the size of your company, one tenet holds true: No customer service strategy can be effective unless the front-line people are motivated and trained to do so. Motivation and training is, of course, the natural domain of HR, which typically conducts annual, monthly and even hourly performance reviews, sets personal goals, and manages employee incentive and competency development programs. However, we can also expect to see companies investing in a proprietary suite of technologies, training processes and tools in the areas of talent acquisition, learning services, knowledge management, workforce collaboration and performance optimization. Innovation in the field of human capital management is one of the key capabilities mapped by top tier companies in the industry to enable a consistent, scalable and flexible workforce. Here are some of the top trends that customer service leaders are pointing as critical in order to stay attractive to employees and enhance their employee’s satisfaction. Analytics & Workforce Intelligence In today’s world, customer service and human resources leaders understand that data-driven solutions can improve decisions about talent, and, as a result, revenues and profits. Companies are now focusing on the use of data-driven insights to develop actionable plans to better recruit, retain and motivate employees. Market demand for Workforce Intelligence is on the rise as business leaders increasingly recognize that recruiting, retaining, and motivating the right talent is critical to business growth and prosperity. Equally important is the ability to access and analyze the right information to support talent-related business decisions. On other hand, linking employee training to companies’ business strategies will still be critical. However, simply spending more on training programs won’t automatically translate into enhanced productivity. Rather, Workforce Intelligence solutions will clearly define goals and measure the return on TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE p.15
  • 16. “... 69% of millennials believe office attendance is unnecessary on a regular basis.” Experience shared. | sitel.com 69% p.16
  • 17. investment that companies expect from learning initiatives. By making program goals and program outcomes tangible, companies can ensure tangible improvements. Generational Shift By 2015, millennials will be the majority representation of the workforce, as baby boomers retire in greater and greater numbersXIII . Millennials are known to have significantly different expectations for their employment experience, forcing HR to face challenges of engaging and retaining a new profile of employees, while also ensuring the knowledge and skills of retiring baby boomers are maintained. For instance, 69% of Millennials believe office attendance is unnecessary on a regular basis. Companies will look to more sophisticated methodologies, tools and processes to better predict, incorporate and react quickly to the changing workforce in order to understand how to best motivate, train, and retain workers. Gamification Industry leaders recognize that contact centers typically have low levels of task discretion and mode rate levels of interaction task, and few contact centers use quality improvement teams and autonomous work groups extensively. This is the case regardless of the education level of the employees. Moreover, performance appraisal and performance monitoring are used extensivelyXIV . Yet, on the other hand, there is a much greater variability between contact centers in the extent to which they use other human resource practices, such as sophisticated selection, extensive training and performance-related pay. Furthermore, the use of these other human resource practices is not strongly associated with the way jobs are designed. But this scenario is rapidly changing. Everywhere we turn, it seems there are experts claiming that the best path forward is to engage people with elements of competitive play. Gamification has now been established as a valid engagement tool in the enterprise to drive workforce and customer engagement and drive business growth. Customer service organizations have a lot of experience with goal setting, rules, and incentives. What the industry hasn’t figured out is how to align work with personal passion and commitment. The big change on Employee Management practices is based on the result of some research that states we enjoy games and spend so much time playing them because it is our choiceXV . We volunteer to enter their fray. Meanwhile, the problem with work is that so much of it feels involuntary. Certainly no one forced us or a customer service employee to take a particular job, but whatever sense of excitement or mission we felt as a new recruit has been lost in the daily grind. Applying game design in the workplace can bring back the thrill of putting points on the board, beating the odds, and accomplishing important goals. Leveraging game mechanics can unleash passion, potential, and personal commitment. Games can help transform the weak links of social media connections and conversations into purposeful networks. The technology research firm Gartner predicts gamification will be used in 25% of redesigned business processes by 2015. This will grow to more than a $2.8 billion business by 2016, and 70% of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one “gamified” application or system in the following years. p.17
  • 18. “... gamification will be used in 25% of redesigned business processes by 2015” Experience shared. | sitel.com 25% 25% p.18
  • 19. Experience shared. GLOBAL SOURCING Global sourcing (offshore services) is expected to grow to a $500 billion industry by 2020XVI . Despite the political pressure, the popularity of offshore outsourcing is still growing rapidly, spurring innovative relationship models with blended domestic, nearshore and offshore support. Companies that understand and embrace the research and investment required for successful offshore sourcing will reap great rewards, while minimizing risk. The annual Offshoring Network Survey XVII results show increasing demand for engineering, product development, and research and development activities. Consequently, there will be a significant shift in the volume of service functions from developed to developing countries that have socioeconomic and political stability, access to a competent human resource base and rock-solid infrastructure. However, to most successful companies, outsourcing is not only about offshoring to one low-cost location, it’s about blending onsite, home-based, offshore and nearshore capabilities, supported by a proven global operations model. Automation-enabled Self-service the First line of Satisfaction Customers expect to be able to self-serve on the web or in the IVR without human interaction/escalation. Offshore is as Essential as Ever for Scale in a Cost Competitive world With nearly 500 million Spanish speakers, 400 million English speakers, 100 million German and 100 million French speakers, it is important to have global language solutions that will scale cost effectively. Mature and proven operating centers exist in safe and secure countries. The sourcing of customer experience management jobs is driving the globalization that is enhancing the stability of economies and cultures by providing jobs and education. Nearshore is Key to Business Continuity and Critical Language Support In any operation of significant scale there is a need for geographic diversification to ensure operating stability with redundancy and separation. Nearshore solutions across the globe offer customer experience operations with close proximity that complement larger scale operations in lower cost offshore destinations. Central America, for example, is an ideal offshoring TRENDS RESHAPING THE FUTURE OF CUSTOMER SERVICE AGE OF EXPERIENCE p.19
  • 20. “... currently 12% of contact centers with formal workforce management programs are utilizing home-based agents” Experience shared. | sitel.com 12% 12% 53% USGlobal p.20
  • 21. location for U.S. and Canadian businesses. With compatible time zones and short flight times, these locations can seamlessly provide quality, cost- effective customer experiences. Homeshore capability must set the standard for service expectation. Domestic customer experience operations are vital to a large scale customer experience operation as a benchmark for global operations and as an enterprise leader to establish standards. Home-Based Agents Complete the Chain The time is right for home-based agents to massively take off and reach a new level of maturity. Technologies have addressed bandwidth, security and reliability concerns. It is becoming common for home-based agent positions to meet or exceed the security standards of a brick-and-mortar site. The adoption curve has reached a critical mass and work-at-home employees exceeded 100,000 in 2013. Added pressure to bring higher value service back from offshore locations is also a major driver for adding home agents. As transformation initiatives evolve, many will include home-based agents to fill in the complex parts of a complete solution. Home-based agents will fill in the peak staffing requirements with part-time labor and will provide specialty agents with unique training and language capabilities. The more complicated the role to staff, the more likely home-based agents will fit the bill and fill the role. A recent benchmark reportXVIII shows that currently 12% of contact centers with formal workforce management programs are utilizing home-based agents. According to the National Association of Call Centers, 53%of US contact centers already have some portion of their agents working from home. As the job of an agent becomes more complex, moving to an home-based agents model is one way many companies are finding a more educated, stable workforce — wherever they live. REFERENCES I American Express Service Study, September 2013 II 2014 Call Center IQ , Call Center Executive Priorities Report III Deloitte, 2013 Global Contact Center Survey IV “The truth about customer experience,” by Ewan Duncan, Conor Jones, and Alex Rawson, Harvard Business Review, September 2013. V Source: Loudhouse Research Survey: Call Centers Are Expected to Create Revenue,- December 22, 2010 VI US Online Retail Forecast, 2010 To 2015, Forrester Research, Inc., February 2011 VII “Customers take control”, December 2011, PWC VIII Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, September 2012 IX According to JWT Intelligence (December 2010) X Walker, Customers 2020 Report XI How to use Customer Effort as a Customer Experience Measure, GFK XII 2011 Customer Experience Impact (CEI) Report, RightNow XIII The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics XIV David Holman, Stephen Wood, Chris Stride, The Institute of Work Psychology University of Sheffield XV “If All of Work Were Gamified”, Saul Kaplan XVI International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2012 XVII International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, February 2012 XVIII “Workforce Management in the Contact Center: Optimizing Agent Scheduling and Productivity to Improve Customer Experience Results, January 2012 IXX “The New Workplace Currency It’s Not Just Salary Anymore”, Cisco Study, November 2011 XX September 2014, http://trendwatching.com, “The future os customer service” p.21
  • 22. p.22 ABOUT SITEL Great customer experience starts with great people that are well trained and equipped to address the needs and add value to your customers. Keeping the promise of better experiences is how Sitel is helping the largest brands in the world retain and grow their customer base. As a leading global outsourcing service providers, Sitel combines knowledge sharing, a ‘people first’ culture and unparalleled excellence at both the global and local level. Whether you partner with us or work for us, you will discover what it takes to deliver outstanding customer experiences. © Copyright Sitel Corporation 2015 Produced in the United States of America January 2015, version 1.0 All Rights Reserved Sitel Global Headquarters Two American Center 3102 West End Avenue Suite 900 Nashville, TN 37203 USA Phone: +1 615.301.7100 Toll-Free (in U.S.): +1 866.95.Sitel sales-na@sitel.com www.sitel.com