Forecast Accuracy: Half of Contact Centres are Only 5-10% Off

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50% of contact centres believe that they are only 5-10% off with their contact centre forecasts, with an additional 11% going further by suggesting that their forecasts are within 5%.

Poll – “How Accurate are your Contact Centre Forecasts?” – answers

Within 5% – 11%
5 – 10 % off – 50%
10 – 20% off – 23%
20% or more – 5%
Don’t know – 11%

Source: Call Centre Helper website webinar: Improving Forecast Accuracy Sample size – 105 Date: May 2012

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Jo Robinson

Jo Robinson has worked at Call Center Helper since 2007. She started off as News Editor and is currently Operations Manager. Jo quality checks a large number of the articles on Call Centre Helper, along with caring for our customers, managing the eblast programme and sponsorship of our annual benchmarking survey.

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Forecast Accuracy: Half of Contact Centres are Only 5-10% Off

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