Bridgewater Consulting


Resource Planning Consultancy will work with you and your contact centre personnel to create or develop a comprehensive resource planning system that will adhere to your particular needs and provide a framework that enables you to manage........and your colleagues to deliver - on time and within budget. 

Resource Planning Consultancy offer you a choice of disciplines including around Forecasting, Scheduling, Operational Planning and Intraday Management so that you can choose how and what you want to develop.....a simple 'health check' or longer term development  - it's up to you!


   

 

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Welcome To Resource Planning Consultancy

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Forecasting, Scheduling, Budgeting, Operational Planning, and Intraday management are the usual resource planning outputs and resource planners are frequently called upon to provide analysis for other types of management information including Shrinkage, Attrition and Skills analysis.   Call centre, Contact Centre, Consultancy, Consulting, call, customer service, forecasting, scheduling, qmax, q-max, IEX, Totalview, resource, planning, planner, analyst, work force, wfm, management, skill, strategy, strategic, strategy, IVR, voice menu, Robert BRidgewater

Balancing budgets and service levels in contact centres can be a challenge.  Especially when traffic levels are impacted by events that you can’t always control and haven't planned for.  Challenging that is, but not impossible…it just takes a little time, preparation and co-operation. Call centre, Contact Centre, Consultancy, Consulting, call, customer service, forecasting, scheduling, qmax, q-max, IEX, Totalview, resource, planning, planner, analyst, work force, wfm, management, skill, strategy, strategic, strategy, IVR, voice menu, Robert BRidgewater

But its not just about getting the numbers right. Quality is a significant consideration in developing brand loyalty and customer retention. Defining and measuring quality can be difficult but increasingly resource planning also has to take account of the impact quality driven activities have on average handling times and scheduling.  What does the brand voice consist of? What does it sound like and how can it be written? The language and syntax required for  email correspondence will be different from that used in conversation, web chat or over the telephone. All these media present opportunities to reinforce brand values using language and its delivery to do so - but at what cost?.   Call centre, Contact Centre, Consultancy, Consulting, call, customer service, forecasting, scheduling, qmax, q-max, IEX, Totalview, resource, planning, planner, analyst, work force, wfm, management, skill, strategy, strategic, strategy, IVR, voice menu, Robert BRidgewater

As the development of increasingly sophisticated customer service is driven by customers and competition alike, managing multi media contact centres becomes ever more complex.  And as contact centres develop,  different skills need to be trained and managed.  Inevitably, consolidating resources across various media becomes fundamental to success but this begs various questions - What skills do I need, when and to what extent?  Aligning management information to core activities such as customer journeys, value and frequency as well as current and future goals, will give you real insight into your skill strengths whilst potential weaknesses will be exposed automatically.  Comprehensive Skills Planning allows you and your management team to focus on what you need to train or develop, to maintain success, now and for the future.   Call centre, Contact Centre, Consultancy, Consulting, call, customer service, forecasting, scheduling, qmax, q-max, IEX, Totalview, resource, planning, planner, analyst, work force, wfm, management, skill, strategy, strategic, strategy, IVR, voice menu, Robert BRidgewater

Increasingly there is a focus on productivity.  Executives are keen to realise value for money and need to prove efficiency and effectiveness.  But with telephony, email and mail often measured separately it can be hard to get a comprehensive picture.  Examining shrinkage, adherence to schedule and agent utilisation together, may go further towards providing answers. Call centre, Contact Centre, Consultancy, Consulting, call, customer service, forecasting, scheduling, qmax, q-max, IEX, Totalview, resource, planning, planner, analyst, work force, wfm, management, skill, strategy, strategic, strategy, IVR, voice menu, Robert BRidgewater

Picking the right consultant can be challenging too. You want someone that has experience, industry knowledge, and, of course, innovative ideas.  Robert Bridgewater will work with you to develop appropriate, practical resource-planning methodologies that will help your organisation meet it's challenges and deliver optimised performance and efficiency, consistently – for customers and other stakeholders alike. 

Please get in touch for more information or to join the mailing list.  I look forward to working with you. 

Robert Bridgewater

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