Cross-Selling in a Call Center with a Heterogeneous Customer Population

Authors:
Itay Gurvich;Mor Armony;Constantinos Maglaras
Affiliations:
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208;Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York 10012;Columbia Business School, New York, New York 10027
Venue:
Operations Research
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Cross-selling is becoming an increasingly prevalent practice in call centers, due, in part, to its unique capability to allow firms to dynamically segment their callers and customize their product offerings accordingly. This paper considers a call center with cross-selling capability that serves a pool of customers that are differentiated in terms of their revenue potential and delay sensitivity. It studies the operational decisions of staffing, call routing, and cross-selling under various forms of customer segmentation. It derives near-optimal controls in each of the settings analyzed, and characterizes the impact of a more refined customer segmentation on the structure of these policies and the center's profitability.