Call Centers

Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD

Call centers provide a variety of services to organizations and customers, for example, handling orders, complaints, providing technical support to customers, etc. The use of call centers is increasing as businesses diversify and their products and services become more complex.

This document contains the following sections
Various Perspectives
General Resources

Various Perspectives

Information and Ideas for Call Center Design and Performance
Call Centers for All Businesses
The Evolution of Call Center Technology in the Internet Age
Prize-Worthy Call Centers: The nine best call centers we covered in 1999
Documenting the Help Desk Contribution to the Organization
Helping Your Help Desk: Seven Considerations to Increase Effectiveness

Tutorial: Three Steps For Creating Effective Call Center Measures and Reports
Tutorial: Call Centers

General Resources

Call Center Resources
Call Center -- Wikipedia
Call Center Association
Extensive list of online articles about call centers
List of call center resources
E-Summit International: Another extensive list of online articles


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