Metrics Based Management
(A Two Day Workshop)


Workshop Overview

Consistent delivery is a necessary condition for success in BPO and Customer Contact Centers. Continuous improvement provides sufficiency. Metrics based measurement is the key enabler for both drivers. This workshop provides the 'magic wand' for success in BPO operations - measurement, management and improvement. 

Data must lead to actions - for ensuring consistency and improvement:
  • BPO organizations are rich in data. In fact, many of them are drowned in data. The challenge is to organize, analyze and use this data for consistency and improvement.
  • Data, in its raw form, means different things to different people. Hence, it doesn't mean much for the organization. For data to be useful, it has to be transformed and provided a common meaning.
How?
  • Selecting the right data is the first step. From an unmanageable ocean of data, business priorities dictate what is important to measure. Creating a relevant dashboard is hence the first step.
  • Key performance parameters for BPO are customer satisfaction and cost. Customer satisfaction depends on faster and better delivery, consistently. Hence, dashboard design involves identification of those metrics that measure or influence how to do things faster, better and cheaper. Selected data is then defined appropriately, organized, analyzed, and used for actions.
This workshop helps participants in selecting, organizing, analyzing and using metrics for business success. Using best practices and pitfalls experienced by over 50 BPO organizations, this workshop addresses the 'hard' and 'soft' issues of metrics based management. It derives learning from application of metrics based frameworks like Six Sigma.

BPO operations are like process plants, with human equipment!
This introduces subjectivity and complexity that make metrics management a challenging task. This workshop takes the metrics 'bull' by its horns, goes to the heart of operations, explodes myths and provides a clear direction for success. It also helps create a Management Information Framework in terms of who should look at what metrics.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will help participants:
  • Appreciate the Business Benefits of Metrics Based Management
  • Derive a Dashboard of Metrics from Key Business Drivers
  • Understand Operational Definitions of Commonly Used Metrics
  • Prepare a Base for Collecting and Organizing Data
  • Use Tools and Techniques to Analyze Data
  • Convert Metrics to Meaningful Actions for Consistent Delivery and Improvement
  • Understand Who Should Use What Metrics
  • Imbibe industry best practices
  • Increase Readiness to Apply Learning 'on theJob' Immediately

Workshop Content

1. Setting the Context
  • Business Drivers and Metrics
  • Voice of Customer and Metrics
  • Types of Metrics - Effectiveness and Efficiency; Output and Internal
  • Key Metrics - Customer Satisfaction, Employee Satisfaction, Speed, Quality and Cost.

2. Defining, Collecting and Organizing

  • Operational Definitions
  • Units, Granularity and Frequency
  • Data Collection Approaches
  • Ensuring Data Integrity
  • Organizing Spreadsheets and Databases

3. Analyzing Metrics

  • Targets
  • Averages and Distributions
  • Comparing across Sub-Groups and Attributes
  • Forest and Trees - The Zoom Effect
  • Managing Variation
  • Finding and Confirming Causes
  • Analysis Tools
  • Graphs and their Usage
  • Pitfalls and Best Practices

4. Who Should do What

  • Organization Roles
  • Responsibility for Metrics
  • Information Flow
  • Accountability for Actions
  • How to Create Ownership

5. Technology

  • How it Helps
  • How it Hinders
  • Success Factors for Technology Deployment
6. Actions for Improvement and Sustenance
  • Converting Analysis to Actions
  • Reviewing Impact of Actions
  • Sustaining Improvement
Methodology
It is an Interactive Workshop that Uses:
  • Presentations for Knowledge Dissemination
  • Discussions for Knowledge Sharing
  • Case Studies for Exposure to Real-Life Issues
  • Individual and Group Exercises for Application Practice
  • Games for Simulated Learning Combined with Fun

This Methodology Facilitates Faster Learning, Easier Implementation and Higher Retention.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is useful for all managers and analysts in the BPO industry. Team Leads, Supervisors, and Operations Managers will find this workshop particularly useful.

Metrics Coverage
Customer Satisfaction, Complaints, Customer Churn, First Attempt Resolution, Defects by Unit and Opportunity, Rework, Forecasting, Schedule Adherence, Service Level, Speed of Answer, Switch Busy Outs, IVR Resolution, Abandons, Turn Around Time, Backlog, Productivity, Outbound Contact Yield, Processing Parked Transactions, Idle Time and Utilization, Over Time, Employee Satisfaction, Attrition, Absenteeism, Recruitment, Training, Performance Appraisal, Telecom and IT, Transportation, Cost of Non-Conformance

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