O impacto da terceirização do call center em empresas de energia elétrica no Brasil

This dissertation seeks to recognize the impacts that outsourcing of the call center brings to firms of electrical energy in Brazil. For this research, two existing cases in the brazilian sector electric: i) case of Cemig, firm mineira of electrical energy; ii) case Light, firm carioca of electrical energy. The framework of this dissertation is based of the methodology of multiple study cases described by Robert Yin (2003). This work analyzed separately each of the cases and compared the results obtained in each analysis. In this way, this research aimed at analyzing the impacts that firms sufering in outsource the call center, despite the citys are diferents, like the factors of the environment. The obtained results suggest that the firms adopt the mixed call center, with the greatest part of outsources employees and with less proper. The importants impacts seeks in this research are the lost of the image, quality and the control of the process of answering. The aim impacts of a outsourcing the call center find in this research are the lost of the image of the firm and the reduction of the control of the process of customer service, impacting directly on the quality of the customer service.

Mensuração de resultados mercadológicos na perspectiva da avaliação qualitativa: estudo de caso no Sindicato dos Estabelecimentos de Ensino Privado no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul - SINEPE/RS

O cenário atual das organizações revela importantes mudanças. A análise de seus resultados mercadológicos está sendo realizada de um modo bastante diferente de tempos atrás. Hoje a avaliação das empresas necessita ultrapassar seus resultados quantitativos. Com isso, as corporações buscam ferramentas para mensurar variáveis qualitativas: desejam saber de sua credibilidade, sua imagem e a percepção de seu posicionamento mercadológico. Neste contexto, o objetivo do presente estudo é identificar e analisar os formatos de avaliação que são utilizados pelas empresas para mensurar a efetividade dos resultados qualitativos da organização na perspectiva dos conceitos de reconhecimento, reputação, impressão, identidade empresarial, imagem, qualidade e satisfação. Na análise das evidências coletadas na empresa estudo de caso foi identificado que os processos do planejamento estratégico e a sua vinculação a um programa de qualidade, com seu respectivo processo de avaliação, são os principais parâmetros para mensurar os resultados qualitativos. Estes critérios e análises, juntamente com o controle e acompanhamento das metas e indicadores oriundos do planejamento estratégico, são os orientadores do processo de avaliação dos resultados desta empresa.

Line extension influence on brand image: a study on the alcoholic beverage market in Brazil

The present study has the objective of understanding the influence of line extensions on the image of vodka brands. The research was performed by organizing various focus groups with vodka consumers in São Paulo. These focus groups allowed exploring and analyzing how the last line extensions of vodka brands have modified the image the consumers had of the brand. Three hypotheses were distinguished as an outcome of the research: (1) The influence of a line extension on brand image depends heavily on the initial image the consumers have of the brand. For a vodka brand with an average or bad image, launching a line extension with a perceived average or bad quality does not modify the brand image. On the contrary, for a vodka brand with a positive initial brand image, launching a line extension with perceived high quality led to a positive change in the brand image. (2) For vodka brands, a vertical line extension recognized as having high authenticity provokes a transfer of attributes from the extended product to the brand. (3) Among Keller’s (1993) dimensions of brand image, non-product related attributes and especially packaging are the one that are the most influenced by line extensions of vodka brands.