Archive for June, 2007

Telegenisys enters medical insurance services

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Telegenisys, the world-class international call center has always been committed towards providing the best support services to businesses and organizations worldwide. We have a proven track record in providing highly professional call center services; easily evident from the growing list of satisfied clients to whom we currently provide our services. Recently, we entered the high-end call center services segment that includes proprietary and classified support services such as medical insurance back office services.

Entering the high-end medical insurance call center services was no doubt difficult but we stood up to the challenge and did not get bogged down with the usual initial hiccups. To ensure professionalism in our international medical insurance call center services, we hired only the most talented and skilled support representatives, most having prior experience in medical insurance call centers. We also upgraded our existing infrastructure as required for providing highly efficient medical health insurance call center services. Theoretical training sessions as well as preliminary on the job training sessions also helped a lot in our efforts to achieve the desired level of professionalism and offer world class medical insurance plan call center services to our client.

So, if you have similar outsourcing needs, just contact us.

What can be outsourced to remote locations

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The divide that was present between the urban and rural areas seems to be on its way out in recent times. Thanks to outsourcing, both large and small business organizations are turning to it as the solution for overcoming the pressure and becoming more competitive and efficient. After reading several blogs, there is evidence that more and more companies are jumping on the outsourcing bandwagon. This has resulted in technology entering the remote areas as well. Outsourcing is not only helping various companies in realizing their profit targets in business efficiency and profitability, but is also proving to be a boon for areas where there are few communication services.

If you are wondering about all that can be outsourced, the options that can be looked into are numerous. If you are new to outsourcing, you will be surprised to know that you can outsource anything that you consider a business ‘process’. Besides web hosting, marketing, IT maintenance, accounts, manufacturing and even recruitment, outsourcing can be introduced in areas like editing of newsletters and articles or the distribution of mail shots as well. There are various American hospitals that are involved in health outsourcing to India, to increase their efficiency. They are doing this by moving diagnostic labs and managerial work to some of the specialized units in the country. There are a number of models coming up in local healthcare outsourcing, be it in the form of a joint venture or contract. Patients who live in remote areas are benefited by the potential of health outsourcing. It is sad to know that even though technology is reaching small cities and towns, there are hardly any modern health services available at the other end. Besides health services, companies can provide unique services to remote areas, different from what is being offered by the regular companies. For instance, a company like Telegenisys offers several marketing skills through various online resources to the clients, besides the regular data capturing and telemarketing services. If you are planning to outsource to remote areas, make sure that you maintain a personal relationship with your clients, as it is beneficial to both the parties

Service Level Agreements For Outsourced Project

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

If projects have been outsourced, they might be for a variety of reasons, from reducing cost to focus on business. Whether the outsourcing arrangement lasts for a long or short period, the performance and quality of the provider must be monitored and targets should be met. In order to measure how well the relation between the client and service provider is working, Service Level Agreements are established. The SLA can make a difference to a solid relationship that lasts for years and keeps both parties happy.

SLAs should be treated like commandments and never broken. It is essential to what goes into a SLA and what should definitely be in it, in technical terms-metrics. The contents of a SLA can be viewed at http://www.outsourcing-toolkit.com. The service provider should state clearly in the SLA how the service is to be provided, with regard to the software and hardware.

The first goal should be the measurements that motivate the right behavior and each side must understand the other side, expectations, goals and the factors that are within control. You should ask only for what you need and identify and protect the most important and critical organizational assets. A few SLAs guarantee how fast the service provider will respond to your service requests, how long upgrades will take, how fast service providers will detect and report problems, and so forth. Another critical consideration is how the service provider will be penalized if the service level guarantee is not met. In most cases it simply means that the service provider won’t bill you for that period of time.

Then you should define your criteria and how you will continuously monitor them, cover the best and worst case situations in the agreement and make sure that the penalties are fair. The third would be to choose rewards with care and keep them to a minimum and demand continuous improvement from the provider. This should include the staff and management, so that data or work handled would be treated with a sense of importance.

And the last but very important aspect is that you should assign a representative from your business set-up to follow up on the execution of the SLA and always include an exit strategy. This is in case of a disaster or any unforeseen problematic situation that threatens the existence of the company.

With proper planning, a company can create an outsourcing SLA that will meet its organizational needs. Be clear about best- and worst-case scenarios and draft the SLA in partnership with the provider, emphasizing the processes that ensure that terms are being met and that service continues to improve.