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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes. Those data points still play a role in measuring performance, but your partner should have their eyes set on the bigger picture of customer success.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Customer Journey

Horizon CX

Granted we live in a fast-paced age where average handling time is typically imposed upon an agent as one of their performance metrics and I get that, but some people tend to have this communication problem. But what about those initial journey steps that took 15 minutes plus of my time and that upset me so?

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Hyper Efficiency: The Next Frontier in Contact Center Operations Management

NobelBiz

These metrics should be data-driven, allowing you to identify areas of improvement and track progress over time. Average Handle Time (AHT) The average call handling time (AHT) is frequently used to determine individual agents’ effectiveness and the performance of the customer service organization as a whole.

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New Report: ROI Of Customer Service & Customer Experience

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet This report looks at how companies, using the right software, can gain ROI from Customer Service and Customer Experience. Customer Care as a cost center is an unfounded p aradigm. In fact, executives have long thought of customer service or customer care as a cost center.

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RapportBoost to Lead Discussion Group and Exhibit at Customer Contact Week Austin on Oct. 10

RapportBoost

– Company CEO Tony Medrano to discuss how contact centers can leverage agent feedback, training platforms to drive agent performance, turn contact centers into profit centers – Los Angeles, CA. RapportBoost will also exhibit at Booth #25 at Customer Contact Week in Austin Oct. to 12:50 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. 10 – 11.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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Customer Self-Service Doesn’t Matter! That’s a False Paradigm!!!

Natalie Petouhof

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. Tweet It’s just not true.