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Call Center

Quit Treating Your Contact Center Like a Manufacturing Plant

Contributor: Tripp Babbitt
Posted: 8/3/2010


Quit Treating Your Contact Center Like a Manufacturing Plant - Tripp Babbitt

The mass production, economies-of-scale mentality that has a place in the demise of manufacturing in the United States has long been the model copied in contact centers. Full Column »

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