It is becoming increasingly recognized that benchmarking is an essential function for a properly managed customer contact center. The insights, efficiencies and aids to decision-making that are offered through benchmarking are so compelling that managers cannot do without it and still consider themselves in line with professional standards.
BenchmarkPortal professionals pioneered contact center benchmarking. In 1995 they conducted the first scientific industry-wide benchmark study at Purdue University under a grant from IBM. BenchmarkPortal was awarded a U.S. Patent for its unique methodology of benchmarking call centers. As a result of over 15 years of dedication to contact center metrics and measurement, our offerings allow you to benchmark your call center in the following ways:
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| 22 KPI Benchmarking Survey | Start Now | More Info |
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| Collections Call Centers | Start Now | More Info |
| Inbound Sales Centers | Coming Soon | Coming Soon |
iBenchmarkThe experts at BenchmarkPortal, under the leadership of Bruce Belfiore, invented iBenchmark. This automated benchmarking product puts technology and advanced processes to work for people who manage contact centers without the hassle of finding and inputting the metrics manually. |
Call Centers Benchmarking SurveysOur Benchmarking surveys are the easiest way for a call center to benchmark themselves against peers in our database of thousands of call centers. BenchmarkPortal, has collected key performance indicators from thousands of contact centers worldwide, creating the world's largest database of best practices statistics. |
Call Center Peer Group BenchmarkingCompare your call centers performance against its industry peers to establish an objective baseline of current performance. Identify strengths to be cultivated and weaknesses to be addressed. |
Outbound & Collections Call Center SurveysWe have recently launched two new ongoing databases for collections and for other outbound functions. The highly informative reports will help you compare your operation to others in your industry on investment efficiency, results efficiency and quality. We will bring the same rigor and experience to outbound analysis that has made our inbound benchmarking and certification process the industry standard. |
Top 100 Call Centers ContestBenchmarkPortal, along with The Center for Customer-Driven Quality, invites you to participate in our Annual Call Center Benchmarking Study, which features the "Top 100 Call Centers" Contest for centers located in North America. The Center for Customer-Driven Quality™ (CCDQ), founded at Purdue University, is internationally recognized as the premier research and educational organization for customer contact best practices. |
"Call Center Benchmarking is a structured, analytical approach to performance analysis which compares you to your industry peers on key performance metrics. When complemented with a careful process of discovery and decision-making, benchmarking allows managers to optimize their operations and leverage best practices to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. Properly utilized, benchmarking is a powerful management tool and provides a road map for continuous improvement."
Bruce L. Belfiore, Senior Research Executive, Center for Customer-Driven Quality and CEO of BenchmarkPortal
Benchmarking provides the following advantages:
- Managerial visibility into your operations—on a quantitative basis.
- Comparability to competitors: how are you really performing?
- Pinpointing performance gaps with a high degree of precision.
- Linking performance gaps to underlying contact center processes that may need fixing.
- Spotlighting customer satisfaction, which is a key to unlocking higher value for your company.
- Identifying and quantifying improvement initiatives.
- Improving work life through targeted human resources initiatives.
- Career enhancement through contact center certification programs.
- Shareholder value improvement through measurable, earnings-per-share-oriented investments.
