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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. By the early 1970s, more call-routing systems were beginning to include ACD technology, ushering in the development of large-scale call centers. Fun fact: TeamSupport was founded in 2008!

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Balance efficiency, technology, and strategy to improve consumer lending

West Monroe

The banks that act now will be advantageously positioned when the market turns, similar to the success seen by those who were proactive to fill gaps at the tail end of the 2008 financial crisis.

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Guest Blog: Building a Human Powered, Technology-aided 21st Century Customer Experience

ShepHyken

To give you a sense of the speed of changing customer preferences, I will harken back to 2008 when McGraw-Hill published my book The New Gold Standard 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Read Shep’s latest Forbes article: Ten Ways To Handle A Brand Crisis.

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Call Centres Coming Home: How Technology Can Smooth the Move

CSM Magazine

Gary Williams, Director of Sales and Consultancy at Spitch explores how onshore call centres relative costs can be addressed with technology. The move by call centres to bring their operations back to the UK, however, has happened in conjunction with an upturn the employment market in the country as it emerged from the 2008 financial crash.

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The US Is Opting For Healthcare Call Center Outsourcing Companies – Here’s Why

Magellan Solutions

Latest technology – Large outsourcers invest heavily in analytics, CRM, speech recognition, and other tools to optimize the patient experience and provider operations. This access to technology can be very expensive for smaller providers. This raises satisfaction.

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

Lumoa

Artificial Intelligence Ever since 2016, the continuous advancements in technology have culminated in a disruption of contact centers on an industrial scale. Migration to the Cloud Buoyed by the COVID-19 outbreak, cloud migration dramatically increased during the steepest economic contraction since the 2008 financial crisis.

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The Top 4 Customer Experience Challenges and How to Overcome Them

GetFeedback

The phrase Customer Experience (CX) didn’t become en vogue until 2008 when it surpassed Customer Satisfaction as the primary customer-focused keyword. . Since 2008, customer experience has burgeoned and become a key element at many companies. Surprisingly, only 19% of companies globally have tried a new tool in the past five years.