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Customer service is no longer a cost center. Today, it is the anchor between empowered customers and the business that needs to deliver on the precise needs of each client in a personalized and effective fashion.

These activities can be exemplified with a marathon where customer service agents need to overcome numerous hurdles to delight their buyers and solve their needs in a timely manner. Use of business process optimization helps companies accomplish this important mission.

Chances are, if you’re reading this then you are already a convert to the advantages of process optimisation. You know how it helps you to meet business goals and aids in fine tuning elements of what you do resulting in more revenue, productivity and easier compliance. However, executed badly, it can be a little like grabbing a tiger by the tail. This article looks at five ways in which process optimisation can really fall apart (and ways you can avoid them).

Business process management (BPM) is an invaluable and rewarding aspect to optimising your business, but it's not always easy to convince the company stakeholders of the merits inherent. One of the biggest mistakes is to rely on the obvious performance benefits automated BPM can bring without illustrating the financial ones, and this is more often than not because of the difficulty associated with calculating return on investment (ROI). If a business cannot calculate ROI before it starts any BPM work, it will most probably not commit fully - simply because no proper case has been made for benefit, in terms that most C-level's use to run their companies.