Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

This article appeared first January 10, 2017 at SharpenCX.com. 2017 will be a year defined by how well companies continue to adapt to customer expectations—like the ability to get good service at any time of the day, via any device. How do you expect customer expectations to change in 2017? Here’s what we learned.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Brands Hospitality 50

NICE inContact

MARCH 27, 2018

A major conversational shift around artificial intelligence (AI) occurred in 2017. While the jury is still out on that concern, contact centers and their agents will experience a significant boost in productivity and their ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences through AI. voice or chat). voice or chat).

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Joe Rawlinson

AUGUST 9, 2017

The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 Use social media channels to keep in touch with your customers and stay engaged. Deliver a Satisfying Omni-Channel Experience. Customers also crave a more satisfying omni-channel shopping experience, IBM’s study found.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

Trends 100

Trends Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center 100

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. In 2017, we’ll see leading marketing organizations expand to incorporate contact center touchpoints with voice-of-the-customer analytics technology. Contact centers see the answer in the cloud.

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Trends Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center 100

Avaya

JUNE 28, 2017

There is no doubt that contact center leaders are feeling the pressure to have their centers and their agents perform more efficiently, faster and with more incite. Many contact center decision makers are realizing that just upgrading technology will not suffice in this transformational era. What does this mean?

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Avaya

APRIL 27, 2017

But this May 22-25, when you arrive in Orlando for the 2017 ICMI Contact Center Expo and Conference , we think you’ll be heading for what we like to call the second happiest place on earth. With just five minutes of prep, we can put your corporate website into our Avaya Oceana contact center transformation demo.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 19, 2017

From creating improved customer experiences to a renewed focus on employees, we see 2017 as the year that brands look for ways to foster both employee and customer engagement. While customer engagement keeps its place as a top priority, in 2017, companies will broaden their focus to include employee engagement, particularly for Millennials.

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Calabrio

JUNE 9, 2016

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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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

Puzzel, a leading cloud-based contact centre software provider, has announced that London’s largest further education college group, Capital City College Group, has successfully implemented Puzzel’s omni-channel customer service solution including the latest AI-powered Agent Assist technology.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Nordic region’s largest insurance company, If, has adopted innovative artificial intelligence in combination with its existing solution from the contact center supplier Puzzel. The new agreement covers If’s contact centers in four countries. offers the ability to build advanced automated services.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The company moved to NICE inContact CXone , fully embracing a cloud contact center strategy in 2017, and that was a real turning point. The abandonment rate today, by the way, is less than 5 percent, and productivity has improved by 10-15 percent.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 31, 2018

When Talkdesk puts together our long-term feature roadmap, we put a lot of thought into where contact center executives want to go in the future and build a product that will give them the tools they need to execute on their vision. Omnichannel. but information isn’t shared across channels. No one wants to do that.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

In this article, we take a deep dive into the different AI customer service technologies that companies are employing to improve their customer-facing interactions, as well as to enhance their internal processes. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of all customer interactions will no longer be managed by humans.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Where Customer Service is Failing: Top Priorities For Your Contact Center [Research] by Sharpen. Sharpen) Customer service research: people are less patient; need their omni channel inquiries solved quickly. Be sure to read through the entire article as there are some good suggestions to focus on in 2017.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. Customers expect high quality and consistent interactions with businesses every time, regardless of interaction channel. And it only gets worse from here!

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

If the answer is “no” or “I don’t know,” it might mean you’re among the vast majority not evaluating these channels as part of your quality program. Customers expect high quality and consistent interactions with businesses every time, regardless of interaction channel. And it only gets worse from here!

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 19, 2017

At the end of the day, contact center jobs are about communicating in the manner that solves a customer’s problems best and new contact center technology has to take that into account. Here are a few predictions about what contact centers (and contact center jobs) will look (and sound) like a year from now.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Creating Moments of Wow Predictions for 2017 and Beyond by TeleTech. These are just a few of the ways consumers describe interactions they consider to be “Moments o f Wow” with their favorite brands. We bet you’ll notice how much smoother your customer service interactions go when you apply these words! TeleTech) Memorable.

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Stella Connect

MAY 4, 2017

This year’s ICMI Contact Center Expo & Conference in Orlando (May 22-25) promises to be quite an event. These are the topics we feel are particularly important for contact center leaders to focus on in their efforts to build world-class service organizations and stronger brands. Work at Home: Maximizing Your Returns.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Conference Employee Engagement 40

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

A Deloitte Point of View report states emphatically that omni-channel retailing is the future of business, and most experts agree. However, many experts also agree that omni-channel marketing requires more than just offering multiple channel or contact choices. Customer Service Becomes an Obsession.

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Avaya

MARCH 28, 2017

I recently attended Jeff Pulver’s 2017 MoNage conference to get the latest views on chatbot usage and expectations for serving customers. There is no shortage of software and services companies, including Avaya, that are investing significantly in the field of chatbot technology for contact centers applications.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Earlier, businesses used to see contact centers as cost centers.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As agents interact with customers, the chatbot helps by providing helpful information as needed. . ICMI Toolkit 2017: How to Become a Successful Omni-Channel Contact Center. Even if you don’t have a customer-facing chatbot , you can use AI to support agents behind the scenes.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As agents interact with customers, the chatbot helps by providing helpful information as needed. . ICMI Toolkit 2017: How to Become a Successful Omni-Channel Contact Center. Even if you don’t have a customer-facing chatbot , you can use AI to support agents behind the scenes.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Small and medium-sized contact centers, in particular, may find this burdensome. How can you deploy real-time communication across various channels without blowing your budget? It’s an obvious and cost-effective strategy to interact with consumers and establish a long-term connection. And it doesn’t stop there.

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Communication Contact Center Contact Center Software Telecommunications 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Small and medium-sized contact centers, in particular, may find this burdensome. How can you deploy real-time communication across various channels without blowing your budget? It’s an obvious and cost-effective strategy to interact with consumers and establish a long-term connection. And it doesn’t stop there.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 8, 2018

Retail customer experience gurus, leaders and experts shared their insight with Retail Customer Experience via email as 2017 ebbed to a close. My Comment: Would you want your customers to visit an outdated website or experience old technology and systems when interacting with your company? Of course, not!

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 24, 2018

To help understand the modern contact center industry as thoroughly as possible, the team at Talkdesk reviewed Deloitte’s 2017 Global Contact Center Survey. A year ago, 2017 was designated as the “ year of the chatbot ” but at the time of the survey, only accounted for 6% of customer contact.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 24, 2018

To help understand the modern contact center industry as thoroughly as possible, the team at Talkdesk reviewed Deloitte’s 2017 Global Contact Center Survey. A year ago, 2017 was designated as the “ year of the chatbot ” but at the time of the survey, only accounted for 6% of customer contact.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today’s customers expect omnichannel. How is omnichannel customer service different from (or: better than?) Here’s the basics on what’s what between “multi” and “omni” – and why you should care. Customer service must support many (“multi”) channels because that is what customers expect. customer service.

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eGain Blogs

JANUARY 4, 2018

This is an extract from an interview* that eGain’s SVP of Marketing, Anand Subramaniam, gave to Contact Center Pipeline for their feature article, Blending AI With Support. What can contact centers do to address content-related consumer and agent pain points? To guide service and sales interactions with AI reasoning.

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Verint

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This session will explore the expectations of today’s consumers—from customers being able to connect with businesses whenever and however they choose, to businesses being able to interact and maintain context throughout every phase of the customer interaction. Sitecore Symposium 2017. Consero Contact Center Forum.

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ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As 2017 is coming to an end, here’re 3 customer support trends that promise a better customer support in 2018. This will speed up initial interaction and response time and enable triage to humans when required. Customers do not rate customer support based solely on interactions with that company. Take a look. . Justin Flitter.

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Team HGS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This year, we will finally witness the tipping point where digital channels —email, chat, social, text, messaging—overtake voice in the contact center. Mobile driven interaction management —in-app messaging, chat, SMS, and social—have become foundational components of an omnichannel strategy.

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