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What Do You Do When the Caller Fails the Question?

A Typology of Call-Centre Verification Workarounds Under a Pass-Rate KPI

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement open-codes 214 flagged verification episodes from a telecommunications call centre's spoken security-question step, finding the centre's verification pass-rate KPI holds near-ceiling while 41 per cent of flagged episodes close without the caller ever supplying the record's stored answer.

AuthorsDagny Okafor, Casimir Beng
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.ptj0ny
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_ptj0ny,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {What Do You Do When the Caller Fails the Question?: A Typology of Call-Centre Verification Workarounds Under a Pass-Rate KPI},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ptj0ny},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-telecommunications-call-ptj0ny/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}