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Making Your Contact Center Adaptive: Advanced Management Techniques for Quickly- Changing Customer Expectations

Storyminers

What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? At most contact centers, there will be several waves of change within the 2017 calendar year. The answer to this question is the same as it was in 2016 and will be the same as in 2018. #1 1 Deepen your customer profile.

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Enterprise Connect 2017: Contact Center Round-up

NICE inContact

2017 was arguably the biggest and best year ever at Enterprise Connect 2017 for those who care about contact centers. For ten years, I have attended virtually every contact center session held at the show, the past few years as the Contact Center Track Chair. Is Cloud Contact Center the New Normal?

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6 Keys to Successful Contact Center Technology Change Management

NICE inContact

Some of us have a hard time adjusting to a change in laundry detergent (you want me to switch from Tide to Gain?!) , so it is only natural that we and our agents sometimes have difficulty accepting and adapting to changes in our contact centers. Studies have concluded that 70% of change initiatives fail for a wide variety of reasons.

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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. Labor Market. Need some insight?

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How Top Performing Contact Centers Will Own 2017

Storyminers

We touched base with leading customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein to learn how you can make your contact center adaptive to customers’ evolving omni-channel expectations in 2017. What’s the most important thing contact center managers should prepare for in 2017? Here’s what we learned. 2: Serve before you sell.

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How Analytics Technology is Changing the Contact Center

Calabrio

The contact center as profit driver: it keeps popping up on lists of top business trends for 2016. Surveys show 3 in 4 organizations now view the contact center as a key differentiator—no longer just a cost center. contact centers racked up more than 200 billion minutes of inbound calling.

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3 Practical Ways AI in the Contact Center Gets Real

Comm100

Closer to home and much more practically, let’s take a look at how AI is changing the contact center and customer experience, and where the impact is most significant. Specifically, we’ll focus on three applications of AI that will forever change how we build and run contact centers: Chatbots, analytics, and the agent experience.