Expert perspective: How to level up your voice of customer program
NICE inContact
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Imagine having a gold mine in your yard and never venturing out to dig up some nuggets.
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NICE inContact
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Imagine having a gold mine in your yard and never venturing out to dig up some nuggets.
NICE inContact
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
In today's experience economy, businesses can't leave CX to chance. Companies need to align every aspect of the business on the customer experience. For contact centers, this includes getting agents on board by explaining why customer experience matters and providing the technology agents need to be successful. But you can do even more to meet your CX goals by focusing on every aspect of the agent employment life cycle, beginning with the hiring process.
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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity
NICE inContact
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Other contact centers are upgrading their technology to keep up with customer and competitive demands. To get a more macro view of technology investments, download the complimentary ContactBabel report, State of Contact Center Transformation in the New Digital World. Get started on your digital transformation today!
NICE inContact
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Would you ever get a retail or office space, hang a sign outside with your business's name on it… but then just leave it standing there, unstaffed for long periods of time? And the front door unlocked, no less?
NICE inContact
OCTOBER 21, 2021
In 2021, customer satisfaction is the competitive battlefront. Businesses today face unprecedented amounts of competition as they try to differentiate themselves on the customer service experience. This is true even of niche businesses. Everyone is competing for customers, and you need to have more than just great products if you hope to survive and thrive in today’s world.
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 26, 2021
A contact center is no longer a place to just handle calls. Today, there is click-to-chat, email, text, callbacks, and all the digital channels customers use. The importance of customer experience and loyalty has become more important than ever, and technology is improving and changing rapidly. Our goal at NICE CXone is to help our customers build lasting relationships with their customers because we understand the value and importance of satisfying customers.
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
As the world continues to deal with the coronavirus and other challenges that affect our everyday lives, businesses and their customers agree that staying connected—and finding new ways to connect—is increasingly important for both groups.
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
In these days of striving for excellent CX, it's important to use every tool available. The best cloud ACDs can help contact centers improve experiences and avoid service failures through sophisticated routing, smart self-service, and providing agents and supervisors with enhanced capabilities. Additionally, modern ACDs provide contact center leaders with real-time information for better decision-making and empower them to make quick, effective configuration changes.
NICE inContact
AUGUST 30, 2021
A couple of years ago, my wife, two daughters, and I took to the high seas aboard a Disney Cruise along with Elsa, Mickey, and all the other who’s-who of Disney favorite characters.
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the veritable reigning champion and current all-star industry buzzword. Most people interact with AI daily in some form or another.
NICE inContact
AUGUST 26, 2021
The customer journey is easily one of the most important, yet most misunderstood, parts of doing business. One of the reasons for this is that the needs of customers can change.
NICE inContact
AUGUST 17, 2021
The demand for a unified next-gen CX platform that can manage complete interactions across every consumer touch point from digital to voice for any service need in both a responsive and proactive manner will accelerate.
NICE inContact
AUGUST 16, 2021
Did you ever see the episode of “Friends” where the always-principled Phoebe Buffay spends the entire show on hold with her phone company’s customer service?
NICE inContact
AUGUST 9, 2021
A comprehensive guide that explores knowledge management, the role of knowledge management tools, and strategies for future-proof KM. New innovations in knowledge management, like CXone Expert, are helping businesses to boost CX results and drive key contact center metrics.
NICE inContact
JULY 12, 2021
Siemens’ customers include businesses from across the spectrum of industry sectors. They range from billion-dollar companies to startups and even students. These customers come to us when they need the company’s expert solutions and deep problem-solving capabilities to improve or enhance or even reinvent their own manufacturing processes.
NICE inContact
JUNE 27, 2021
Read more about CXone Personal Connection, the proactive engagement solution that is part of the CXone platform, which ensures your outbound calls are ready for STIR/SHAKEN, generates more revenue, improves the customer, and agent experience, and increases customer connections.
NICE inContact
JUNE 17, 2021
Software that can benefit customers, employees, and businesses, sounds a little too good to be true, but that's exactly what modern customer service management software is capable of. Companies are fighting battles to win and keep customers based on the experiences they provide, and using the right software in their contact centers could give them the competitive edge needed to win.
NICE inContact
JUNE 15, 2021
Robotic process automation is one of many ways artificial intelligence can be used beneficially in contact centers. RPA can automate repetitive tasks, which makes agents' jobs more engaging, increases contact center capacity, and improves accuracy. Other AI solutions can yield similar benefits.
NICE inContact
JUNE 8, 2021
Contact centers are at the heart of a company’s relationship with its customers. In no other business function do you see the exchange of ideas and feedback that happens between agents and customers during support interactions. This conversational information, plus a wealth of operational statistics, make contact centers a treasure trove of customer data.
NICE inContact
MAY 19, 2021
With NICE, it’s never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the world’s #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, we’re a worldwide leader in AI-powered contact center software. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NICE to transform—and elevate—every customer interaction.
NICE inContact
MAY 14, 2021
Change management is part of every successful technology transformation effort. You can nail the technical implementation, but if the people using the new capabilities aren't on board, your project will struggle out the gate.
NICE inContact
MAY 11, 2021
Ready for a statement that will make you think? Gartner predicts that 85% of customer interactions will be managed without humans in 2021. This might be a scary notion for agents who are sensitive to job security but rest assured that human agent jobs aren’t going away. Why? The Contact Center is still inherently a forum for human engagement. The 85% of interactions that can be offloaded from human agents will be represented by the pesky repeat issues and questions that customers have that can s
NICE inContact
MAY 4, 2021
In the business world, customer experience has long been the focus of many efforts. From marketing to lead generation, business operation, and even customer retention, brands know all too well that the customer is the one part of the equation that can make or break their business at the drop of a hat.
NICE inContact
MAY 2, 2021
There’s a direct link between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Happy employees equal happy customers. Unhappy employees lead to unhappy customers. It’s not quite as simple as that, but as a generalization it’s not too far off. Employees are the driving factor behind customer satisfaction. Employee interactions set the tone for a positive or negative customer experience.
NICE inContact
APRIL 26, 2021
2020 was certainly a year unlike any other. A global pandemic of previously unimaginable extent has fundamentally changed the way we live, work and interact with each other, not only privately but also in a business environment. The use of digital channels has been on the rise for many years, both for how we communicate in our personal life, as well as for how we interact in a business environment.
NICE inContact
APRIL 25, 2021
Answering routine questions, assisting contact center agents to handle calls, creating support tickets, checking statuses—conversational AI technologies have transformed all of these contact center tasks. And by doing so, this advanced call center technology has undoubtedly enabled enterprises to create a range of differentiated user experiences and increase productivity in specific workflows.
NICE inContact
APRIL 19, 2021
Technology is rapidly changing how companies of all types and sizes conduct business. This is true in the realm of customer service and support. Using artificial intelligence (AI) in the right ways can provide businesses with a range of benefits. One of the technologies that have helped to reshape the customer service experience is the AI chatbot. Before we get into the benefits of using an AI chatbot, let’s first get a better understanding of what this technology is and how it works.
NICE inContact
APRIL 14, 2021
If you’ve interacted online with pretty much any sort of business in the past year, there’s a good chance it was handled by a chatbot. Lately, I’ve encountered more local small businesses using them to take orders and answer questions. The convenience offered by their chatbot helped to win my business. And they seem more prevalent than ever. Have you noticed the proliferation of chatbots on websites and social media platforms?
NICE inContact
APRIL 7, 2021
A hybrid workforce model isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Agents are loving the flexibility and comfort it offers. But like anything, it comes with its own unique challenges as you try to keep employees engaged in their positions. If you’re unsure of where to start, the six pillars of a hybrid contact center workforce engagement strategy listed above would be a great place to start.
NICE inContact
APRIL 5, 2021
This is the third article in a four-part series designed to help small call centers choose the right software to enable them to thrive and compete. The first article focused on cloud call center software as a growth enabler, the second was all about building customer loyalty, and now we'll discuss how to use modern technology to compete more effectively and take performance to the next level.
NICE inContact
MARCH 31, 2021
Contrary to some science fiction movies, artificial intelligence (AI) hasn't subjected humans to robotic overlords. And contrary to some current opinions, contact center AI isn't all about replacing customer service agents with armies of bots.
NICE inContact
MARCH 28, 2021
As you initiate your call center software selection process, keep in mind that many new loyalty-enhancing capabilities are within your budgetary reach. Don't set out just to replace "like-for-like." Instead, imagine what features like new self-service capabilities, intelligent routing, and a unified agent interface could do for your customer lifetime value.
NICE inContact
MARCH 15, 2021
The challenges of 2020 put contact centers agility to the test. And with a lot of those challenges continuing in 2021, many contact centers are still struggling to manage with a variety of issues.
NICE inContact
MARCH 3, 2021
Each year, NICE inContact surveys both consumers and businesses to understand trends in consumer behavior and expectations as well as understand priorities, strategies and technology adoption forecasts from businesses. The NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark is fielded in the US, Canada, UK, Australia with two surveys, one among consumers and one among contact center decision makers.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
When it comes to planning technology investment, the contact center is thought of as a cost center and unfortunately often overlooked or sold short. When it comes to technology initiatives, it might go unnoticed and underfunded. This creates two issues: a contact center that stays in the past can cost your business a lot of money, and you might be missing out on turning the contact center from a cost center to a profit center.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Do you ever feel like you’re running a cost center rather than a contact center? Without performance management you may be experiencing high attrition rates and training costs, or low productivity and engagement rates, which can make the contact center feel like a necessary evil – rather than the true value-added function it is.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Do you ever feel like your competitors have outdistanced you when it comes to using innovative technology to create exceptional customer experiences? Are there signs that your customers are lukewarm about your organization's customer support options? Maybe your agents complain about the outdated technology they use every day while assisting customers?
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
In 2020, contact centers around the world tore up their customer service scripts. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses to nonprofits, public-facing organizations faced a daunting task. They had to address the urgent needs of their customers, all while providing a safe work environment for their employees and agents. As we reflect on the past year, we are proud of our efforts to assist customers new and old.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
When we talk about the "customer experience", some also think "customer journey" and mistakenly use these interchangeably. These terms can be confusing and difficult to follow, but it’s actually a simple distinction. First, yes, they are two different things. Second, yes, they both require your attention. What’s important to realize is that the journey is much more insightful for business planning and growth because it offers a more detailed look at every move the customer makes.
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. You and your customers rode the waves of the uncertainty that defined the year. There was disruption like never before. Contact centers had to adapt quickly to serve customers who were anxious and seeking help. Contact center traffic was also inconsistent and unpredictable.
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. This shift will likely continue as we settle into the new normal and will impact two of the key factors in how we Work from Anywhere: people and technology.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 12, 2021
Ringing in the new year provides an opportunity to create a fresh start for your agents and your contact center – even despite the stale circumstances. So while the start of 2021 might not bring the overnight “new year, new you” fix we were all hoping for, here are some workforce engagement ideas to help refresh your agents’ mindset to start the year on the right foot.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 7, 2021
We live in a real time. We get flash-sale notifications in real time, get real-time alerts for every bank and credit card transaction in real time, know how many “likes” we have on a social post in real time – heck, I even know when my daughter’s diaper has been changed at daycare in real time (evidence that there is such a thing as too much real time).
NICE inContact
DECEMBER 9, 2020
When history is written about the pandemic, there will be chapters on the increasing importance of customer service, adaptation, and the evolving role of contact centers in the quest to survive. Stories of automating routine tasks and providing automated self-service options, while highlight how contact center focused on enhancing personal CX by allowing agents to do their best work will be a focal point for businesses.
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