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Distributed customer service call centers.
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Business Communications Review
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July 1, 1995
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1995 BCR Enterprises, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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A virtual network of distributed call centers offers many benefits to companies and their customers. These include lower overhead costs, better control and increased responsiveness from call center agents. Such systems, however, require the use of advanced telephone switching systems with remote switching, interactive voice response and Look-Ahead Interflow capabilities for collecting caller information and routing calls.
The credo for a growing number of customer service call center managers is: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Large, standalone customer service call centers that function as islands unto themselves are giving way to interconnected networks of smaller call ...
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