Call Center Continuity Planning

A disruption in your call center operation can conceivably cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. And multiple disruptions can cost in the millions. Call Center Continuity Planning shows you how to plan for - and avoid - service interruptions through disasters large and small. This book will show you how to deal with everything from power outages to major hurricanes.
Should you use external Call Volume Management (CVM) solutions such as pre-established procedures for disaster call routing? Or, should you use internal solutions such as planning for a company cold site, virtual call center, or use of the excess capacity of your other call center during emergency?
What about managing call volumes to cope with non-emergency seasonal or time of day peaks? Can you use your call centers minimum daily overflow of calls as a benefit rather than a problem? What is involved in contracting to outsource call handling to another call center in terms of effectiveness, expertise, technology, and human resources - and what advanced call processing techniques are available?
Call Center Continuity Planning answers all these questions and more. It also provides detailed information on the concept of CVM, that treats the volume of calls as a fluid, that can be channeled from one place to another via computer-managed switching. Your Call Volume Management system acts like a series of aqueducts to manage the floodwaters of incoming calls before your call-takers are swept away.

Introduction
PART I: PRINCIPLES OF VOICE RECOVERY
Planning Philosophy
Six Principles for Developing an Effective Plan The Illusions of Recoverability
Rationalizing Procrastination
PART II: PLANNING
Plan Stages
Business Impact Analysis
Risk Analysis
Recovery Team Selection
Plan Contents
Team Responsibilities
IS Department Recovery Planning
Disaster Implementation Tasks
Return to Normal Operations
Plan Maintenance Procedures
PART III: CALL VOLUME MANAGEMENT
Call Volume Management Issues
ICH and RTMO
Other Uses for Your CVM Back-Up
Checklists
PART IV: TESTING
Six Questions to Ask when Designing a Test Types of Testing
Test Objectives
PART V: CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Crisis Leader, Internal Command and Control Basic Crisis Management
Personnel Issues
PART VI: CONCLUSION
Continuity Planning for YOUR Call Center
PART VII: APPENDICES