Stanley Black & Decker Outdoor Modernizes Its Contact Center with Verint WFM in the Cloud

By: Rob Lamoureux

Stanley Black & Decker Outdoor (formerly MTD Products, Inc.) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of outdoor power equipment. Through its facilities in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, the company produces quality mowers, snow throwers, utility vehicles, trimmers, tillers, and more for both residential and commercial markets.

As the only outdoor power equipment company with its own contact center, the company believes it has a significant competitive advantage in delivering the best customer experience—key to growing its global lawn and garden market share.

With a focus on key metrics such as schedule adherence and operational efficiency, the company implemented Verint Workforce Management Professional, part of Verint Platform, to optimize its workforce resources through modern and automated forecasting, scheduling, agent communication and adherence. With the best-of-breed Verint Open CCaaS solution, the organization has improved schedule adherence by 15%, increased contact center capacity by 20% without adding headcount, and broadened the skill sets of 80% of its agents from targeted cross-training efforts.

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Rob Lamoureux is Senior Director, Global Customer Advocacy at Verint with 25+ years of enabling and energizing sales and marketing. He is well versed in orchestrating integrated, multimedia marketing, communications, customer advocacy, and customer success programs that propel brand awareness, accelerate customer demand, retain customer loyalty, and increase sales on a national and global scale. He combines expertise in strategic market planning, organizational leadership, and project management with strong qualifications in campaign program design, new product and service rollout, market launch, and customer experience.