May 20-24, 2012 | Boston, MA
This premier educational event provides comprehensive learning opportunities exclusively for Avaya customers. Register by March 31 to receive early bird savings and save more than $200 off the cost of regular registration.
Ric Kosiba, President, Bay Bridge Decision Technologies will be presenting on: Contact Center Capacity Planning
Bayu Wicaksono, Manager, Operations Research, Amit Garg, Senior Operations Research Analyst , and David Woo, Operations Research Analyst have been selected to showcase their poster proposal at 12th Annual Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research on April 15-17, 2012 at Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa in Huntington Beach, CA.
Their poster on long term strategic workforce planning for contact centers using mixed integer programming approaches and simulation-based forecasting will be showcased among many other leading companies across a wide range of industries. Additionally, the Bay Bridge team will be there to listen to suggestions, critics and answer questions from over 700 business analytics and operations research practitioners across the industry.
Click more information on their Poster Presentation Proposal .
The Society of Workforce Planning Professionals is hosting their annual SWPP Annual Conference: The Summit for Workforce Management Excellence on March 7-9th in Nashville, TN and we are once again proud to sponsor the event.
As a result of our sponsorship, Ric Kosiba, President of Bay Bridge Decision Technologies will be speaking on:
Contact Center Capacity Planning, Step by Step (or Ways to Improve Your Scary Spreadsheet Plans)
Over the last year or so, there has been a fair amount of press about the shortfalls of the traditional long term planning process, and the need for more dynamic corporate planning. These numerous articles reflect the reality that when the business environment changes, the resource plan must change too.
In the contact center operation, forecast change is particularly difficult to manage. When contact volumes are at variance to plan, when do we trigger a new forecast and a new resource plan? How do we determine, accurately, the service we can expect as volumes change and our budgets remain fixed? How do we quickly produce accurate and optimal capacity planning scenarios?
In this session, we will discuss the steps taken by the best planning analysts, from forecasting, to accurate requirements generation, to optimally generating hiring/overtime/undertime/controllable shrinkage plans for your multi-channel, multi-skill contact center network.
In addition to our presentation we highly recommend attending Andrea DelValle’s session – “Contact Center Magic at Disney”, Steve Gordon’s – “Social Media’s Impact on Call Volume”, and Michelle Borboa – “Outsourcing Options”.
Andrea DelValle, Disney Destinations, is a new member of SWPP as of 2012, and her session “Contact Center Magic at Disney” focuses on how Walt Disney World is always working to create a magical experience. Attend Andrea’s speech and see how Disney has integrated their planning processes to enhance the magic at the call center.
We are looking forward to seeing new and familiar faces at this year’s SWPP Conference.
If you would like to rile up a contact center meeting, naively ask the group “Which is better, Service Level or Average Speed of Answer?” Now, step back and watch the fireworks.
We use many metrics when we develop plans: some standard metrics include forecast error, occupancy and schedule efficiency, abandon rate, capture rate, as well as average speed of answer, and service levels. We do so because we are trying to describe very complex operational performance in simple terms.
But simple metrics can create unusual management behavior.
In this session, we will describe some of the standard contact center metrics and show how they have botched some very big operations. We will conclude the session with ways in which you can improve contact center planning and reporting.
Thursday, March 1st at 1pm EST
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Experts across industries agree that the strategic planning process needs to change. There is also a fair amount of agreement on what the end product of that change should resemble. An organization’s strategic plan must be flexible, automated, accurate, and optimized.
Over the last ten years, there has been a move toward this more contemporary planning process in the contact center community. Leading organizations have sought to minimize operational risk associated with changing volumes by improving the analytic capabilities and increasing the level of automation in their planning process. In this paper, we will discuss migrating toward an optimal planning process: the organization, technologies, and business decisions that are current best practices.
Click here to read Contact Center Planning – Agility is Key
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies Upgrades Sensitivity Analysis
Contact Center Software Company’s CenterBridge product is upgraded with new charting features.
Annapolis, Md. – May 19, 2011 – Bay Bridge Decision Technologies®, (www.baybridgetech.com) the industry’s leading contact center strategic planning company, announced new enhancements to CenterBridge’s sensitivity analysis module to provide increased flexibility, customization, and analysis.
CenterBridge’s Sensitivity Analysis module is used to graphically view how sensitive the call center operation is to fluctuation in performance drivers such as staffing levels, AHT, and call volumes, illustrate the impact of changes to key performance indicators, and identify risks associated with changes in the business environment.
“CenterBridge’s new sensitivity analysis module answers critical executive-level questions accurately and in seconds. For example, what happens to occupancy if average handle time changes? What will happen to service-levels if call volumes change? What are the costs associated with service goal changes? How many staff are required as call volumes change? Instantaneously understanding the relationship between contact center performance and the operation’s performance drivers is a great technological leap.” Ric Kosiba, President, Bay Bridge Decision Technologies
Recent enhancements allow CenterBridge users to customize a chart’s appearance to meet presentation and brand standards within the organization. CenterBridge users’ can create graphs with multiple contact types or contact groups, open multiple sensitivity analysis windows simultaneously, create charts spanning multiple date ranges, and graph staffing requirement impacts. In addition, the new features include privacy settings allowing charts to be shared only with appropriate parties.
About Bay Bridge
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies provides strategic analytic and long-term planning solutions to the customer contact industry. Bay Bridge’s CenterBridge suite of software applications support the executive analytics and strategic performance management needs of companies seeking innovative strategies for managing their complex customer contact centers, branch locations, and processing organizations.
For additional information about this or our other CenterBridge applications, please visit our website at www.baybridgetech.com or email us at info@baybridgetech.com.
Contact:
Susan Klasmeier
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc.
410.224.7778
www.baybridgetech.com
Built to Hire- Putting Hire Recommendations into Action
It can often be said that where there is a challenge, there is an opportunity. Tune in discover how TD Bank seized this mantra when creating their strategic plans using CenterBridge. Hear how Laura Dillon addressed business concerns in recruitment and learning and development, and transformed them into opportunities that revolutionized TD’s long-term plans. Specifically, learn how CenterBridge enabled growth in performance and output at TD Bank and ultimately helped drive excellence to meet demand. Laura will also expand upon her experiences with:
SPEAKERS:
Laura Dillon, TD Bank Financial Group
Ric Kosiba, President, Bay Bridge Decision Technologies
Patrick Barnard, Senior Web Editor, TMC
Forecasting and planning have been described as an art; we believe that there’s a fair amount of science and mathematics that inform this art. In this session learn how mathematically optimized methods applied to your planning and forecasting will reduce performance variance in your contact center.
If forecasting is done well, you can predict weekly, monthly, annually, and multi-year scenarios for any planning input metric. Examples of forecasted metrics include call volume, handle time, vacation time, agent attrition, wage rate, and sick time.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
1:00 PM EST
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Being a good workforce manager means being asked to do much more, like produce capacity plans for, not only inbound calls, but back-office functions, instant messaging, outbound calls, and email.
In this session we’ll discuss the benefits of planning strategically to ensure your organization:
It’s critical for organizations to incorporate the same level of rigor to back office planning that they currently perform with other contact center channels to achieve a truly efficient operation while maintaining service-level.
Tuesday, October 25th 2011
1:00 PM EST
REGISTER HERE
Speakers at Orlando Event to Include Contact Center Leaders from Hyatt, Liberty Mutual, TD Bank, and Disney
Annapolis, Md. – January 14, 2011 – Bay Bridge Decision Technologies®, (www.baybridgetech.com) the industry’s leading contact center strategic planning solutions company, announced several speakers for its 5th annual users’ conference to be held January 26 – 28 at Disney’s Boardwalk Inn in Orlando, FL.
This year, Bay Bridge’s CenterBridge Users’ Conference will feature speakers and interactive sessions under the theme “Plan to Infinity & Beyond.” The event will address critical planning issues and present actionable ideas for achieving greater efficiency and accuracy in long-term plans. In addition, the Conference will provide attendees with a “road map” and practical steps to enabling effective contact center planning strategies, while showcasing actual lessons learned and best practices from top organizations.
Presenters for the Summit include contact center leaders from major organizations: Stave Gordon, Hyatt Hotels; David Miller and Andrea Delvalle, Walt Disney; Laura Dillon, TD Bank; and Patrick Flynn, Liberty Mutual. Also presenting will be Vicki Herrell from the Society for Workforce Planning Professionals.
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies President, Ric Kosiba said, “The purpose of our CenterBridge Users’ Conference is to bring together some of the industry’s best contact center planning minds to discuss critical issues and explore best practices. The Conference sets out to build on the sessions and learnings from previous years. In 2011, the Conference aims to increase the collaborative dialogue, challenge conventional planning wisdom, and provide Contact Center leaders with new insights. It is also an outstanding opportunity to network with peers from dozens of organizations across the U.S.”
About Bay Bridge
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies provides strategic analytic and long-term planning solutions to the customer contact industry. Bay Bridge’s CenterBridge suite of software applications support the executive analytics and strategic performance management needs of companies seeking innovative strategies for managing their complex customer contact centers, branch locations, and processing organizations.
For additional information about this or our other CenterBridge applications, please visit our website at www.baybridgetech.com or email us at info@baybridgetech.com.
Contact:
Susan Klasmeier
Bay Bridge Decision Technologies, Inc.
410.224.7778
www.baybridgetech.com