System and method for managing routing of customer calls to agents
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Methods and systems described herein can employ a predictive model relating to offering for sale one or more products offered or supplied by a sponsoring organization of an inbound contact center. In various embodiments, the products offered or supplied by a sponsoring organization require payments by the customer for a period following closing the sale, such as premiums to maintain in force an insurance policy or other financial product, or installment plans for product purchase. A pre-sale prediction model can incorporate information on a minimum period of time of customer payments required to achieve a beneficial transaction for the sponsoring organization and uses this information in determining conditions for “l(fā)apse.” The pre-sale predictive model forecasts customer behavior to improve the probability of closing a sale of an offered product to an inbound customer, and to reduce the probability that the customer will lapse in payment for the purchased product.
The predictive model can classify inbound callers into two or more value groups. In an embodiment, two value groups are modeled to model higher predicted value and lower predicted value, respectively, to the sponsoring organization. In various embodiments, this classification governs value-based routing of inbound telephone calls for response by agents, to allocate limited resources of the inbound contact center. An individual employed by the contact center to interact with callers is sometimes referred to herein as an “agent.”
