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ESI PHILOSOPHIES
VALUE FOR
MONEY
Our prices are based on
costs developed by our own time and motion studies and estimates for
each service that we provide. We get that cost, add buffers and
a markup and that is what we bill the customer. We do not nickel and dime
the customer and do not try to match or play our prices with what the
customer is currently getting. (Usual case is that some companies will do
the work for 20% off what you regularly are charged regardless of their
cost, even if it is way down) If we quote let us say 10 cents per item
and the customer resells it for 5 dollars - it is irrelevant as we make
our profits from the 10 cents. That is why we ask for the process flow
and samples so we can do the time and motion estimates to determine
costs and delivery schedules. We even reengineer the processes into a
more efficient and cost effect manner without losing the quality or
disrupting the delivery schedules. In effect we strive to give you value
for your money when you become our client.
We pour our money into the
infrastructure - generators, servers, multiple broadband providers,
noise cancellation headsets, and the like. Not on carpets and expensive
interiors - our offices are spartan but efficient and our employees well
taken cared of. Again reflective of the value for money principle in the
manner ESI does things.
QUALITY
Without this then there will
be no ESI. We understand the need for constant quality in the products
and services we deliver, otherwise there will be no demand for our
products or services. We take steps to assure quality from basic
training to constant retraining or upgrading. We believe that quality
should start at the bottom and cascade upwards. Our years in Medical
Transcription have inculcated into our veins the constant monitoring of
quality levels at different stages in production and we have known that
if your first step in the process is right and accurate, then the rest
follows - there is no such thing as trying to correct something at the
end of the line, by then it is too late.. That is why we have invested
heavily in our own in-house training instructors be it for contact centers,
media transcriptions, and encoding. Depending on the service, we set
different internal quality benchmarks for each. Quality equating to
accuracy and reliability is and always will be primodial concern with
us.
LONG TERM
CLIENT/VENDOR RELATIONSHIPS
We look at our clients and
strive to develop long term relationships with them. We aim to be in the
business for a long time and we want to keep our customers with us.
MULTIPLE
CORE BUSINESSES
In the Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) business there will be no such thing as a pure one
core BPO business. Meaning plain contact center, or transcription, or
simply encoding. To do so will subject you to the ups and downs of the
specific industry which may or may not have a very short lifespan in
these days of technology and innovation. The future is blended companies
with several core BPO services. ESI is already that.
This allows us
several things namely:
The
ability to combine our expertise from the call center division, encoding, media
transcribing and others to provide better and faster services. Giving ESI a base to produce products which cross over into the different
areas like a Virtual Medical Receptionist which is a combination of a
contact center, medical transcription, medical billing and coding
technologies and expertise.
Allows
the full development of other core businesses since we have the
expertise, the funds, and can look to perfect it as we are not in a
hurry because our other cores are earning. We don't rush a project and
end up with a whole slew of mistakes. And if we do, we have enough funds to correct it.
It
allows our employees to cross over and develop a better and a more
diversified background thereby improving customer service.
It
gives us the economy of scale in terms of recruitment, training, IT
services, broadband and others.
The fear with multiple cores
is that we may not be able to focus. What ESI has in answer to that is
that we have one Operations Head per service - currently we have one for
CAD, Media Transcribing and Encoding/ General
Transcribing. Each one with years of experience in their respective
fields completely focused on their divisions to assure quality and
delivery.
All the BPO services that we do are data conversions in the broadest sense, from transcribing
voice files into electronic files, drawings into CAD files, hard copies into soft files. The beautiful thing about this is we enjoy doing it and
we take pride in our work.
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