Achieving World-Standard Performance Results

A sampling of recent articles featuring our clients or our team talking about Cohen Brown. Click on article title to read full article.


In BAI Banking Strategies, read how Financial institution contact centers suffer from rushed, routine and robotic conversations

No Excuses: Growing a CU in a Shrinking Economy
Thanks to a renewed passion for service coupled with enterprise sales and service initiatives, CapCom Credit Union in Lansing, MI, has remained competitive.

Comerica Bank Places First in O'Connor & Associates' First Half 2008 Industry Benchmark Banking Report
Comerica Bank, a Cohen Brown contact center client for the past three years, placed first among 15 leading U.S. banks included in the O'Connor study.

In Lafferty's Retail Banking INSIDER, read the latest information on balancing sales with customer satisfaction

In Banking & Finance, Conny Dorrestijn moderates a discussion of ABN AMRO's successful "Best Seller" programme based on Cohen Brown programs

An inbound call center at a New Zealand Bank has been cited for having the world's best customer service
BA Bank MarketingABA Bank Marketing featured Bank of New Zealand's remarkable Call Center turnaround in an article by Cohen Brown's Ed Brown and Johanna Lubahn. To receive a free hardcopy of this article, e-mail Johanna_Lubahn@cbmg.com or call +1-310-966-1001. Learn how this call center dramatically boosted its performance by turning away from old metrics and focusing instead on having "great conversations" with their customers.

"Every call center rep, every team leader, every supervisor, and every member of management went through a rich, intensive 'call center lab', facilitated not by consultants or trainers but by members of the bank's call center leadership team... The call center managers settled on their mission: Let's do what it takes for our reps to have great conversations."

Don't Put Me In, Coach
In part three of Cohen Brown's Missed Opportunities Research series, Dr. Martin L. Cohen, discusses the importance of effective coaching.

Myths about Call Centers Sub-Optimize their Potential
Ed Brown, Cohen Brown's President and Co-Chairman, and Johanna Lubahn, Managing Director for Call Center Services, discuss a secret available to today's CEO's to improve revenue growth, customer experiences and efficiency.

The Triple Surprise of Call Center Missed Opportunities
Cohen Brown Management Group's CEO and Co-Chairman Martin L. Cohen, M.D. further examines the company's mystery shop results and shares a number of surprises.

Call Center Cinderella: Is Your "Biggest Branch" Your Best-Kept Secret?
For many industries, it comes as no surprise that call centers are powerful generators of revenue. But banking has a different history of lower expectations for call centers. A few banks are changing this, proving that clear, capable, and motivated agents can deliver differentiating service and highly profitable interactions.

Cohen Brown Management Group: The Organic Deficit
Cohen Brown Management Group's CEO and Co-Chairman Martin L. Cohen, M.D. considers how missed opportunities subvert revenue growth strategies.

Wanda Queen, Cohen Brown Small Business Expert, to Speak at the 12th Annual Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium

Wanda Queen, former Huntington Bank SVP Retail Group Executive and now leader of Cohen Brown's Small Business practice, will chair the first-ever Small Business track at the prestigious Best Practices in Retail Financial Services Symposium, March 21-23 in Las Vegas. Discussing missed business banking opportunities, she will lead a panel of experts from SunTrust, Capital One, US Bank, RBC Centura and Park National Bank.

Queen can also be seen presenting at a number of upcoming events including the RMA Business Women Networking Event in March and the Branch Banking Symposium in April.


Huntington-Sky Deal Proves Developing a Strong Sales Culture Can Boost Shareholder Value
Thomas E. Hoaglin, Huntington's chairman, president, and chief executive officer expects to leverage Sky's expertise.

Cohen Brown Call Center Client Wins Top Bank Award At Best In The World Competition
Bank of New Zealand Tops All Banks at Contact Center World Awards and Wins Silver for 'Best Customer Service' Across All Industries.

Cohen Brown Client, Comerica, Receives Highest Marks for Contact Center's Ability to Cross-Sell in Mystery Shop Study
Receiving a score twice the industry average, Comerica's contact center was ranked number one in cross-selling ability and second overall across all categories, according to an independent mystery shop study.

Cohen Brown Client, Bank of New Zealand, Sweeps Industry Awards for Fourth Year in a Row
Four-time recipient of New Zealand's CRM Contact Centre Diamond Award, Bank of New Zealand added the distinction of winning Asia Pacific's 'Best Customer Service' award.

Achieving World-Class Wealth Management, The Advent of BOk's Trusted Advisor Program
Bank of Oklahoma describes how they are achieving superior results in Private Banking.

The Retail Evolution in Banking
Linda Lockhart, Cohen Brown's Director of Client Experience talks about the progress of retailing within banking and how to transform the branch experience.

Exceptional Client Results
In the Lafferty Group's Bank Branch Transformation in the 21st Century Report, case studies are presented for six banks identified for best practices in sales management and performance. Cohen Brown is proud that four of the six banks are Cohen Brown clients.
Contact Lafferty or Cohen Brown for further information.

Bank of Hawaii 2005 Annual Report Excerpt
Bank of Hawaii's use of OneBankism® leads to all-time high customer satisfaction levels.




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