- 1. NL contact center industry: stats, facts & learnings
Ernst KruizeManager Marketing & CommunicationPhilipse Business
School | MBA School For Customer Management
2. A few general stats
- 2.000 contact centres (and rising)
- Estimated 160.000 employees
- Around 100 billion turnover value (Rand)
- 77% captive contact centres
- 9 out of 10 calls are inbound
- Growing emphasis on sales
3. HR perspective: more stats
- mainly between 25-49 in age
- 75% fixed contract with call centre
- Attrition: 14% captive, 25% outsourced call centres
- Salaries: 140 R per hour captive, 100 R per hour
outsourced
- Melting pot: 4 different generations on the floor
4. Proof of maturity
- Collective labour agreement (wgcc.nl)
- Annual Award event with over 1000 visitors (ncca.nl) |
(tcd.nl)
- 11 thAnniversary Joint industry benchmark research
(nccbp.nl)
- Different magazines and online communities
- Dutch Quality Standard (ito.nl)
- Formal education from agent to manager
5. Associations: fragmentation
- Inhouse contact centers: VCN
- Top ten largest inhouse contact centers: TCCM
- Inhouse contact center managers: TCCM
- Outsourced contact centers: WGCC
- Homeshopping: Thuiswinkel.org
- Online forums (mainly LinkedIN)
6. Industry interests: covered, but protected?
- Growing consumer frustration
- Laws replacing selfregulation
- Low perception of cc jobs
7. The ultimate challenge 8. Need for solutions!
- Employment of the elderly
- Managed sourcing concepts
9. Offshore outsourcing
- Presence of largest global BPO parties present
- EMEA establishment ofglobal brands
- (growing) Offshore outsourcing (voice)
10. Offshore to South Africa (-)
- Perception(!): first attempt failed
- Misperception of Dutch as easy to learn
- - small number of large companies
11. Offshore to South Africa (+)
- Holistic view on customer contact
- Enormous drive to succeed
- Cooperation instead of competition
- One stop shopping concept
- PR (Brochure Wij spreken uw taal!)
- Active representation in NL market
- Partnership with Dutch BPOs?
12. Thanks for your time!