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The Case for Expanding Provider Network Coopetition Among U.S. Health Plans
Apr 18, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystIn my previous blog, I described how, since 2017, Sutherland has created a shared services model that obviates the need for participating California health plans to separately build and update parallel databases to track the availability of providers of nonurgent care for Medicaid recipients. The company estimates that through its consortium of member health plans it has reduced a[...]
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How Sutherland Facilitated Coopetition Among California Health Plans
Mar 29, 2019, by NelsonHall AnalystIn this blog, I look at how Sutherland tackled the challenge of health plans maintaining accurate provider data in the state of California. The challenge: inaccurate health plan data about providers It’s been difficult for health plans in California to maintain accurate, up-to-date information on the current status of providers in the state. According to outsourcing vendo[...]
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Analytics are the Key to Disruptive Customer Experience
Sep 08, 2016, by Ivan KotzevOver the last few months, I have held discussions with a number of leading customer management services (CMS) vendors and their clients regarding the increasing need for advanced analytics to drive step changes in customer experience (CX). Here, I reflect on the changing role of analytics as they take centre stage as the key to disruptive CX. How times have changed When I first participa[...]
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Evolving a CMS Client Relationship: A Sutherland Case Example
Jun 16, 2016, by Ivan KotzevIncreasing emphasis on improved customer experience is driving customer management services (CMS) outsourcing deals to evolve, with vendors providing domain expertize, analytical insights, transformational capabilities, and access to new channels/technology across the entire contract duration. On the client side, this translates into working with fewer vendors sourcing multiple functions and geogr[...]
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The Renaissance of Self-Service: Are CMS Vendors Ready?
Mar 24, 2016, by Ivan KotzevSelf-service has long been part of the customer service mix, dating back to user manuals, and progressing to the first IVRs, website FAQs, and experience sharing communities such as Amazon Help. Even though self-service support has a wide range of benefits and savings for consumers and businesses, its adoption has been slow – due partly to technological limitations, and to a tendency to use [...]
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Sutherland Labs: Getting Under the Skin of Customer Behavior
Nov 18, 2015, by Ivan KotzevMinutes away from London’s Covent Garden, housed in a five-storey converted banana warehouse, is Sutherland Customer Experience Labs. This is an independent creative agency with its own P&L, offering customer experience mapping, idea generation and solution testing to Sutherland Global Services. However, three quarters of its business comes from external clients: delivering design and cu[...]
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NelsonHall Launches NEAT Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool for P&C Insurance BPO in the Automotive Sector
Dec 01, 2014, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall, the leading global BPO and IT outsourcing analyst firm, has today launched a new tool to assist strategic sourcing managers in assessing vendor capability in Property & Casualty Insurance BPO for the automotive sector. The NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for P&C BPO in the automotive sector is now available to NelsonHall clients, and is also available[...]
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Process Improvement the Gateway to Transformational Customer Management Services
Oct 27, 2014, by John WillmottNelsonHall’s latest CMS market analysis focuses on the increasing importance of transformational CMS, whereby a vendor not only takes over the running of a client’s call center processes, but seeks to optimize these processes to achieve the desired business goals of the organization. In the current market, the need to reduce cost while maintaining or enhancing customer satisfaction [...]
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Virtual Operations Sees Take Up of RPA in Healthcare, Financial Services and BPO
Jun 19, 2014, by NelsonHall AnalystNelsonHall recently spoke with management from Virtual Operations, a privately held Dallas, TX-based provider of consulting, implementation and technical services around robotic process automation (RPA). The company was founded in 2012 by Dan Hudson and Matt Smith who had previously worked together at OnTarget Partners and other ventures. We asked them about the growth that they a[...]
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