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Top 3 Insights from the 2016 Global Contact Center Benchmarking Report

Calabrio

One of the places I look for trends is in the 2016 Dimension Data Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report , the most extensive global contact center survey in the industry. Digital channels now account for 42% of all contact center interactions. What you can do: Establish an omnichannel strategy.

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70 Customer Care RFP Questions (An Updated List + RFP Template)

BlueOcean

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Describe your employee engagement strategies and measurement processes. What results have you seen?

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51 New Contact Center RFP Questions

BlueOcean

One of our most popular blog posts is 52 Contact Center RFP Questions to Ask Vendors. Choosing a contact center outsourcer is a huge investment. We’ve compiled a list of 51 contact center RFP questions to help you ensure you’re making the most informed decision. Agent Engagement. Need some insight?

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Facing the Future of Contact Center Employee Engagement

Verint

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Figure 1 below illustrates responses to this question.

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11 Customer Experience Trends for 2016 (The Year of Emotion)

Experience Matters

In my post last year I named 2015 “ The Year of Employee.” With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016. Effort Metric Expanding. Metrics to Action Realigning.

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How Contact Centers Manage the Holiday Rush

Call Experts

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . .

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Employee Engagement: Facing the Future Part 2

Verint

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.