Playvox

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Now that we have an overview of the perspectives that will shape our workforce in the next three years, here are four tips to help you successfully manage a multi-generational contact center team. Training, tools, and coaching are elements that each contact center agent needs, regardless of generation.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center Tips Management Groups 75

NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2021

Globally, organisations experienced major business disruption over the course of 2020, and for contact centres, it was no different. Across the industry, we’ve seen a significant shift in the way that contact centres are managed, and how leaders and agents are responding to changing customer behaviours and needs.

Contact Center 206

Contact Center Trends Course Industry 206

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

omnichannel management that supports digital transformation. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. The industry continues to change, most recently with the emergence of omnichannel management.

Contact Center 69

Contact Center Trends Call Center Customer Journeys 69

GlowTouch

JANUARY 28, 2020

Contact Center Account Manager. We are headquartered in Louisville, KY, with offices in Boston, MA, and Bangalore, India, with another large contact center in Mangalore, India. The ideal candidate will have prior BPO/Customer Care experience and managing large Customer Care clients across multiple channels.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Management Travel Customer Care 52

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

Contact Center 162

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 162

Playvox

MARCH 21, 2022

If the labor shortage has left your contact center scrambling for staff, you might have overlooked a potential goldmine of knowledgeable, eager future team members: retirees. Related Article: 7 Proven Ways to Manage Contact Center Agent Staffing Shortages. Researchers say 1.5 jobs over their careers.

Contact Center 82

Contact Center Training Technology Policies 82

Comm100

MARCH 19, 2020

In the past few weeks, I’ve been reaching out to contact center managers to find out what key problems have been brought on by the coronavirus pandemic , and how they are dealing with them. When inbound chat volume quickly increases, as it often does in a crisis of any kind, your contact center can quickly become overwhelmed.

Contact Center 131

Contact Center Chatbots ROI Knowledge Base 131

Comm100

MARCH 19, 2020

In the past few weeks, I’ve been reaching out to contact center managers to find out what key problems have been brought on by the coronavirus pandemic , and how they are dealing with them. When inbound chat volume quickly increases, as it often does in a crisis of any kind, your contact center can quickly become overwhelmed.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Chatbots ROI Knowledge Base 130

Calabrio

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is especially true for contact centers that, at the forefront of the customer experience, have access to vast amounts of data containing highly valuable customer information. Analytics software is helping contact centers tap into that information for a better understanding of customer preferences, expectations and requirements.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Analytics 130

Playvox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Working with virtual teams of agents in your contact center can sometimes mean you feel disconnected from them — or even worried that you aren’t able to properly manage their performance. Agents who felt their contact centers were handling remote work well told us they appreciated: Clear expectations.

Contact Center Software 52

Contact Center Software Contact Center Software eBook 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Steve Bederman: For contact centers, 2020 was eventful and revolutionary. Today contact centers embraced change like never before and I think 2021 will be fantastic. Bruce Belfiore: How did the pandemic impact management outlooks in adopting new technologies, especially in regards to Omnichannel and Social Media?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Omni-Channel Social Media Technology 52

Comm100

JUNE 5, 2018

How AI can be Used in the Contact Center. AI has some viable uses in the contact center sphere that managers can employ to improve their CX and the efficiency of call centers. Out of these benefits, two concrete benefits of AI in the contact center stand out. Advancing Customer Service.

Contact Center 124

Contact Center Call Center Self Service Chatbots 124

Interactions

JULY 22, 2022

In 2020, contact centers were hit hard by the pandemic. With the talks of a recession looming around us, there’s no better time for companies to future-proof their contact center for whatever may come our way this year (and beyond). . Managing the business day-to-day takes priority over long-term investments.

Contact Center 62

Contact Center Self Service eBook Customer Journeys 62

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, Western Europe, has just been released. Not only that, but we’ve also been evaluated as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America, positioned the highest and furthest overall for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel CRM 120

Integrity Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

The term “call centers” is quickly become a relic of the past, and for good reason. The State of Contact Center Conversation Intelligence 2022 report by Observe.AI notes that 82% of contact centers engage with customers via the phone. The Contact Center Experience: Heightened Customer Expectations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self Service Customer Satisfaction Metrics 52

Talkdesk

AUGUST 28, 2020

The healthcare contact center has been impacted by COVID-19 more so than virtually any other industry. This was the topic at the healthcare roundtable at CCW 2020 (“CCW at Home”), where a number of health and health services-related organizations discussed the new norm for the contact center.

Contact Center 124

Contact Center Healthcare CRM System 124

Playvox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Let’s explore five current shopping trends, and what this behavior means for those of us in the contact center industry. grew more than three times as quickly from 2019 to 2020 as it did during the previous five years. For contact center professionals, it’s critical that we put ourselves in the shoes of our customers.

Contact Center 73

Contact Center Trends e-support Social Media 73

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Against all odds, the year 2020 and the advent of Covid heralded a new era in the business world. Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Against all odds, the year 2020 and the advent of Covid heralded a new era in the business world. Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

Call Experts

MARCH 5, 2020

Cue the experienced live-agent contact center. . Here are our top 4 benefits of partnering with a contact center to support and grow your plumbing business: . Hire a plumbing contact center that works 24x7x365. Contact centers are available virtually and remotely. 24x7x365 answering service.

Contact Center 80

Contact Center Call Center Customer Journeys Conference 80

CSM Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Contact centers, and contact center agents, are currently experiencing an unfortunate crunch on two fronts. Complications stemming from ongoing supply chain challenges have led more customers to reach out to contact centers with questions, concerns, and complaints.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Strategy Wait Times Technology 52

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 26, 2021

According to Gartner’s 2020 CEO Survey, 80% of businesses plan to increase their spending on digital technology. And to get maximum value from that data, businesses should implement initiatives that use customer data to know their customers better, improve CX, and enhance the customer journey.

Data 244

Data Tips Management Government 244

Comm100

JULY 11, 2019

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.

Contact Center 124

Contact Center Chatbots Analytics Effort Score 124

COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. These are: Formalizing work-from-home (WFH) requirements and management. The outsourcing contact center market is becoming more competitive. WFH Insights.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center ROI Customer Journeys Touchpoint 52

Uniphore

JULY 1, 2021

Atlanta, GA – July 1, 2021 – Jacada, a leading provider of AI and RPA powered virtual assistants , recently released key insights on why contact center employees are stressed and how their stress negatively affects the customer experience. Kumaran Shanmuhan, Chief Growth Officer at Jacada.

Social Media 218

Social Media Call Center Study Contact Center 218

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Contact centers must capture data in real-time and enter correctly into CRM systems to provide reporting for your business to make data-driven decisions. . Often, these partners are looking for Omnichannel management to support a robust digital presence. Now, let’s analyze and review the pricing strategies of contact centers.

Contact Center 59

Contact Center Call Center Customer Journeys Conference 59

Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

The shift to the cloud only seemed to accelerate when the pandemic sent many workers home in the spring of 2020. While many in the contact center industry are slow to transition away from on-premise software, cloud adoption shows no signs of slowing. billion in 2020. Quality Management (QM) Solution. are long gone.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Gamification Training Social Media 52

Talkdesk

MAY 18, 2020

What did 2019 teach us about security in the Contact Center? According to the United Nations , the latest information from April 2020 states that most countries in the world (72%) have already established or are currently drafting legislation for data protection. Privacy has significantly grown in importance.

Contact Center 83

Contact Center Policies e-support Conference 83

Integrity Solutions

MARCH 3, 2020

The most persistent contact center challenges can be overcome by making coaching a part of the culture and developing your agents’ listening and problem-solving skills. For several years we’ve been participating in Customer Contact Week (CCW), the world’s largest customer contact event series. The Power of Coaching.

Contact Center 60

Contact Center Culture Conference Call Center 60

BlueOcean

JUNE 10, 2021

We took a deep look at recent data published by Ryan Strategic Advisory , surveying more than 600 contact center decision-makers. What’s the Outlook for Contact Center Budgets? For contact centers, things got tight as many saw a sustained drop in contact volume. But that data is a little deceptive.

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Omni-Channel Resources 156

Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. In fact, 65 percent of executives in a 2020 survey cited automation as a catalyst for modernizing legacy business practices. Say goodbye to outdated Employee Experience (EX) metrics and KPIs How is your contact center currently measuring EX?

Engagement 246

Engagement Contact Center How To Metrics 246

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

Call Center 246

Call Center Self Service Contact Center Case Study 246

Playvox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company’s contact center team shifted to a remote workplace just as Sweaty Betty – and the entire athleisure industry – started to see significant market growth. But by the end of 2020, there were 150 team members on the Sweaty Betty contact center team. A Quality Management Solution with Muscle.

Management 78

Management Contact Center Gamification Retail 78

NICE inContact

JUNE 22, 2021

Contact centers are busy these days with major initiatives. The 2020 lockdowns revealed gaps in contact center resiliency that many organizations are now trying to plug.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Call Center Solutions Call Center Strategy 156

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(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. Agent Training Describe your training structure (team, facilities, Learning Management Systems, remote platforms, etc.)

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

Talkdesk

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With 2019 coming to an end, it is now time to check the rear-view mirror, reflect on the evolving realities throughout this year, and to look further up the road as new trends set the pace of a decade ahead for contact centers and customer service strategy. Resolution 4: Enable The Knowledge Worker.

Contact Center 61

Contact Center Average Handle Time First Call Resolution Competitive Advantage 61

NICE inContact

JANUARY 26, 2021

Life in the contact center can feel like a collective emotional journey, and that was never more true than in 2020. Contact centers had to adapt quickly to serve customers who were anxious and seeking help. Contact center traffic was also inconsistent and unpredictable.

Call Center 156

Call Center Contact Center Customers Management 156