Overview: Pattern of Facts The ABC Corporation is a global company in the industry of electronic devices such as cellular phones and tablets. The company focuses on after-sales service and it has eight calling centers. The company is split into two different departments, sales and service. The calling centers handle different customer feedback and concerns. This allows the company to ensure that they maintain a great customer base and that their employees in the sales department are performing up to the company’s expectations. Each calling center is managed independently and are ranked based on the customer satisfaction. The different leadership teams at the eight calling centers focus on ensuring that their center is recognized for most …show more content…
She is focusing on ensuring she is completing her work, she rarely takes breaks, and is concerned about losing her position. Janet doesn 't always see eye to eye with her boss Thomas. The main goal for Thomas is to ensure that his calling center continues to be recognized for being the most productive center. In order to do that Thomas ensure that all his customer service representatives take a high number of calls. Thomas relies on his supervisors to execute their job and ensure the center is running up to his standards. When Michael, (Kareem’s coworker) reported to Janet of Kareem’s frequent breaks, she reported it to Thomas. Janet reported that Kareem was frequently stepping out of his cubicles outside of his mandated breaks and that Kareem’s performance results were dropping. Michael is a customer service representative and he is one of the coworkers of Kareem. Michael is a self driven employee and he gets frustrated when he feels that his coworkers don’t work as hard as he does. Michael observed that Kareem was stepping out of his cubicle multiple times throughout the day. Michael observed Kareem washing his hands, face, arms, and feet in the bathroom and also noticed that Kareem will often be in a corner of the call center on a mat talking to himself and crossing his hands in a form of prayer. Although Michael would get frustrated with the excessive amount of breaks Kareem would take, he never approached his coworker to find out the reasoning behind it. Michael,
Contrary to the situation at E-Z RP, there is no linkage of customer service representatives to development teams. For instance, CRSs are often the last to gain access about new information or new products. In terms of the organization of customer service, E-Z RP uses a specialized call center where customer service representatives deal with a single product. At Datatronics, the call center is centralized and CRSs deal with all products. E-Z RP uses the second tier support while Datatronics uses a minimal second-tier support. In terms of the training of CSRs, Datatronics only provides minimal on-the-job training while E-Z RP provides extensive training. Datatronics hires employees with basic customer service ability while E-Z RP recruits employees based on customer service skills, business knowledge, and communication ability. The performance metric at E-Z RP is the level of customer satisfaction, while the metric at Datatronics is the time on call or between calls. Although Matt does not intend to reproduce E-Z RP’s customer service system at Datatronics, these are the key issues that he ought to consider in making recommendations for changes at Datatronics.
Luke is an employee of ABC Company. He has been assigned to a construction of an adult entertainment retail store within a neighborhood his brother, Owen, lives in. The development of the retail store has not been made public yet and will be announced one month from today. This announcement will decrease the property values of the surrounding areas significantly. Owen is trying to sell his house. He told Luke that he recently received an ‘okay’ offer. However, in hopes that a better offer might be present itself in a few years after the real estate market improve, he has not taken the offer yet. Luke is very close to his brother, which makes him concerned about his confidentiality obligation to ABC Company.
As the ABC is an organisation heavily involved within the Australian Multimedia Industry, the tools and equipment used are integral to the quality of the content produced. For different areas of production, the tools and equipment used will differ, for example, when working in television, equipment would include a set, cameras, tripods, microphones, props, lighting, video monitors and teleprompter. To edit and deliver good quality television content, the department would use various editing tools and software’s during post-production focusing on almost all areas of audience experience such as visuals and audio. Some of these tools include Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Flash and Computer-generated imagery (CGI). When working with radio, the equipment needed to produce a podcast or broadcast includes a sound proof room or studio, sound boards, microphones and switchboards and the tools used for editing would be solely based around sounds to enhance the audience’s aural experience, so this would include sound editing software such as audacity.
1. (TCO 5) In this digital age, setting up shop online is vital for most retail businesses. But having only an online presence that customers can access at home isn’t enough anymore. Now consumers have an array of smartphones and digital tablets that can get them online from anywhere. For social networks and retailers alike, the mobile market has already enjoyed tremendous growth. Given this information as a sales manager for Always Better Car Sales (ABCS), your concerns include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
During this time both Kareem and Janet could have discussed Kareem’s performance expectations and clear any miscommunication or misunderstandings. Performance conversations can positively impact job satisfaction, employee retention and loyalty. If Janet would have taken the time to learn the reasons behind the frequent breaks taken by Kareem, the situation could have been addressed and accommodations to his break could have been made to align with his prayer times. I would also recommend for Janet to deliver regular relevant feedback in the future to her employees. Setting clear performance expectations and communicating how performance links to compensation will allow Janet to provide appropriate learning and development opportunities, ultimately allowing to recognize and reward her top performers like Michael (SAP, 2017). By discussing Kareem’s performance and expectations, Janet would have allowed him to see factual evidence on how his numbers were declining and together could have created a “SMART” goal for Kareem. Setting goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and with timeframe would encourage Kareem to improve in his results and
And finally, there is the issue of staff mismanagement. The supervisor, Keith Frazier, is only checking in with this department one to two times per week. Mr. Frazier is aware that Pat is making international phone calls. He is also aware that Pauline found a way for Pat to make these calls from the building’s elevator once he had the phone system modified to only allow internal calls. Mr. Frazier has also been fielding complaints from the accountants about not receiving their tax schedules in a timely fashion. However, he has failed to confront either of these issues. This lack of management can be attributed to the following:
Best Buy Co., Inc. is currently the world’s largest retailer for consumer electronics. The company has 1,400 brick and mortar stores and is a popular online retailer as well. The stores serve as display room for various online retailers. Best Buy consumers can purchase electronic products such as mobile, corded and cordless phones, televisions, cameras, personal computers, laptops, appliances and more (David & F.R., 2015). Today’s society relies on convenience and technology, forcing companies to implement new ideas and projects in an effort to maintain their ability to compete with other companies. For continued success the company must look at the internal and external issues the company may face as well as their competitors and their best practices that are contributing to their success.
Comcast is a large cable and satellite television provider in the United States. The company has been plagued with internal weaknesses and external threats in recent years and is in desperate need of turning around its customer service department as quickly as possible. Aside from customer service, the way the television industry is marketed to is changing, Comcast has to stay on the cutting edge in price, product quality, flexibility of plans, and customer service. Comcast has many different areas of their business that need to be analyzed to see where they can invest time and monetary resources to improve the quality of their product and service to their customers.
Best Buy, a familiar retailer in the technology world, is struggling to stay on top. Online and mass stores have cornered the market in terms of convenience, customer service and price matching. The recent closing of over two hundred stores alongside falling sales has experts predicting that the giant won’t be in business long. Using a results-only work environment (ROWE), Best Buy has removed the customer from the equation and forced many employees out. A marketing disaster, Best Buy must change its marketing strategy from sales-based to a customer-based to stay afloat.
In response to a loss of clientele to competitor firms, Ken Winston (C&B’s Boston Sales Office Director) assembled the five most successful salespeople into a Key Accounts Team (KAT). Having previously enjoyed the autonomy of selling a diverse array of products to their own clients, these five ‘Generalists’ would now ‘Specialize’ only in one specific
Device an implementation strategy that would guarantee the support of the divisions presidents for the shared customer service center.
The organization mastery marketing plan is to use their services to satisfy all their customers’ telecommunication needs. This it aims to achieve by connecting their clients from any geographical location in the world. For this to become a reality, AT&T offers competitive prices for all the services they provide (Sjögren and Vifell, 2014). These include the Family Unity Plan and the Rollover Minutes. This market structure was decided upon the
Jess Westerly is the assistant product owner of CRM applications for computer and office supply wholesalers and retailers at Kauflauf. It is a fast-growing provider of subscription enterprise software headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Being new and outsider Westerly tries to implement a change in sales call patterns and failed. She introduced and explained the changes to the sales department through a memo that outlined her directive and explained the reasons behind it. Field consultants (FC) immediately offended and complained about the
Customer service is an important factor to increase sales in almost all industries. Broadstripe, a small provider of cable, Internet, and phone services saw it as a solution to increase sales as their company was filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2009. To improve the customer service experience, Tony Lent, Chief Commercial Officer at Broadstripe, launched a 60-day MBG offering