Look Beyond the MEAN

The extremes on both sides of the curve strongly influence customer behaviour. Hence, It is important to look beyond the MEAN to address the variation in a process. Understanding the variation along with the average performance and addressing the root causes for variation will help you better conform to customer expectations.

Business Strategy: Determine the transfer function

Most business meetings, reviews, dashboards focus on the key performance indicators (KPIs) as a measure of success. These KPIs are the output or outcome of a business process or a combination of processes. In a transfer function, an outputs is denoted as “Y”. However, it is difficult to have a direct control on “Y” or process output without identifying, monitoring and controlling the various inputs to the process – the many “X”s.

Chatbots are here to stay!

A recent report by Jupiter Research forecasts that chatbots (Chat Robots) will be responsible for cost savings of over $8 billon per annum by 2022 for the Banking and Healthcare sectors, up from $20 million last year. Chatbots are gaining popularity and many predict 2017 to be the year of chatbots. The growing trend and…

Unlock the power of Referrals!

In the quest to acquire new business and clients, small & mid-sized BPO / IT companies look to explore all possible options: social networking, direct mails, cold calling, conferences and outsourcing consultants. However, most of them fail to utilize the existing client network and never check for recommendations and referrals. Net Promoter Score (NPS) is…