Workforce Strategic Planning
Workforce
Strategic Planning
Short to long-term forecasting leveraging AI to generate accurate models. Simply understand how many folks you need to get the job done.
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Workforce
Planning
Simple intuitive system for answering the most common questions:
How many folks do I need?
Where do I need them?
How long do I need them for?
Built with concurrency in mind, facilitating your omnichannel workforce optimization needs.
Model
Types
We natively support back-office staffing models in addition to the standard contact center workforce model. The key difference between the two is that our back-office solution queues unworked items and comes with unique service level agreements (SLAs) that match real-world operational strategies.
Instant Engagements
Contact center models designed for concurrent work items, and built for multi-skilled omnichannel staff.
Common Use Cases:
Phone Support
Chat Engagements
Example Metrics:
Abandon
Serviced within Seconds
Service Interval Ratio (SIR)
Persistent Tasks
A different type of model for work types that don’t abandon in an interval. Great for staff modeling back-office applications where the work is persistent and queues until worked.
Common Use Cases:
Insurance Claims
Loan Applications
Example Metrics:
Target Inventory +/- (# or %)
Days on Hand
Staffing
Model
- Simple web user interface
- Excel-like features: Pivot, copy paste in-and-out, drag handle and export
- Works natively with other Novel CX products like Scheduler
- Integrate outside data via API, Stream, Import, etc
- Group and filter data elements to easily aggregate drill-down data

Group Data Elements
Quickly group your view by period – interval, daily, weekly, type, campaign, etc
Instant Filters
Filter a period by any data element. For example, view only the past 5 Saturday’s opening and closing intervals. Combine with grouping to roll-up performance metrics.
Configurable Views
Save your preferred views such as an interval delivery plans (IDPs), toggling through them in your planning calls real-time.
Multi
Skilling
Instantly update agent attributes to change your task routing profiles, while Novel CX intelligently tracks who and how many are able to perform a specific skill. We then update your staffing models based on the distribution of work across your staff.
Step 1
Roster Staff
Associate staff with projects and campaigns based their training
Who is trained to do what?
Step 2
Assign Skills
Dynamically assign tasks to workers without having to remember what each person is trained for.
Who gets what tasks or engagements?
Step 3
Routing Strategy
With tasks associated with workers, how do you want to handle concurrency in your staffing models?
When folks can do more than one task concurrently, how do you want to account for how fast work is completed to maximize efficient staffing?
Integrated
Scheduling

Scheduled View
View or interact with a shift and it’s various activities
Supervisors and managers are able to efficiently make corrections as required
Visual Activity History
Ensure you’re on track with the day’s plan in real-time
- Visually compare scheduled activities vs actual activities
- Visual editor for punch and activity corrections
- Role based views that roll-up for supervisors and managers
User States
&
Activities
- Create dynamic states for your users
- Multiple dimensions of each state to enhance analytics ultimately helping you plan more effectively
- Control who sees what by function and work group

Add States
Create new states and activities for your users to enter, then configure how these states are utilized, reported and processed in your workflows
Productive or Not?
Productive counts user time to your models, billable invoices, and drives your reporting
Preplanned or Not?
When reviewing analytics, it helps to know if events and activities were planned or unplanned.. it’s how you get better.
Selectable by Users?
Not all states should be made available to your front end user
Available to Work Types
Allows segmentation of user states to some or all projects and campaigns
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