BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What Service Level Metrics Are Most Relevant to Your Business Now? 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. What should your outsourcer – and you – be measuring beyond those standard metrics?

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. These digital command centers offer a comprehensive overview of operations, enabling supervisors to make informed decisions in real-time.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

Customer Journey Deliberations. You can’t read very much about CX without running into something about customer journey mapping. That’s why Temkin Group’s customer journey mapping workshops regularly sell out. 4) What will the customer do right afterwards? It’s a hot topic.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In this post, I’ll explore why enterprise contact centers struggle to increase satisfaction while mitigating costs, why journeys enhance contact center optimization and how aligning on and managing customer journeys is the key to improving contact center outcomes. Why Customer Journeys are the Key to Contact Center Optimization.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2022

Thinking about how you can pinpoint which tools will allow you to best serve your customer base is mission-critical for growth-focused companies. Process: Have a living playbook and a CX journey map. Some metrics may even lead to customer neglect.

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Win the Customer

JULY 6, 2023

Understanding Six Sigma Before diving into the application of Six Sigma in customer service, let’s briefly review the core concepts of this methodology: Define: Clearly articulate the problem or objective in measurable terms. Measure: Gather data to quantify the current state of your customer service processes.

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Upstream Works

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This becomes even more evident with home-based agents, as supervisors have less control over their working conditions with limited visibility into real-time performance. For example, with customers feeling more stress, legacy metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) aren’t going to drive CSAT scores.

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Ecrion

JULY 17, 2019

With so many touchpoints along the customer journey – from initial sale to monthly invoices to product support – evaluating how your business is doing with respect to customer service can be daunting. Read on to learn about the most crucial customer service metrics that businesses across industries use to evaluate their success.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

Are you grappling with the complexities of call center metrics, seeking to elevate customer experience, and driving operational excellence through insightful data analysis? This comprehensive approach allows businesses of all sizes to unlock a deeper understanding of their customer’s journey, preferences, and pain points.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 8, 2016

There were four insights in particular that stood out to me in the webinar: Lesson 1: Think outside of the box when it comes to call center metrics. Like many call centers, SpotHero measures and tracks common call center metrics such as service level, average wait time and average handle time.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Like chemistry, great customer experience measurement combines the right mixture of items in the right proportions to produce a transformative experience your customers will surely notice. Let’s start with a review the classifications of the metrics, as well as common items in each classification in this first of the series.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Like chemistry, great customer experience measurement combines the right mixture of items in the right proportions to produce a transformative experience your customers will surely notice. Let’s start with a review the classifications of the metrics, as well as common items in each classification in this first of the series.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Taking the time to tag the call, log the details, update the CRM system or forward customer feedback to the relevant department provides vital information to contact center managers, chief experience officers, R&D personnel and customer journey mappers. However, this disregard for ACW is starting to change.

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Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 7, 2016

It must be driven by being customer-focused regardless of which department “owns” the channel. Determine Metrics for Reducing the Cost to Serve Customers, While Enhancing Revenue from Top-Notch Customer Experiences. Use the customer journey as the guide for overall success metrics.

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Lithium

AUGUST 12, 2021

Resting on the shoulders of CX leaders is the responsibility to unify customer data, initiate cross-departmental action to improve the end-to-end customer journey, and prove the value of CX program outcomes in dollars and cents. But those metrics mean nothing to the C-suite. It’s a stark fact: CX initiatives are failing.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Like chemistry, great customer experience measurement combines the right mixture of items in the right proportions to produce a transformative experience your customers will surely notice. Let’s start with a review the classifications of the metrics, as well as common items in each classification in this first of the series.

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Kustomer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Using Data to get Customer Insights. As companies are trying to tackle the customer journey, many are overwhelmed by data chaos and don’t know how to organize it in a way that boosts engagement all while saving money. Not just looking at metrics that are, what I call the hard data, right? Growth, repeat purchase.

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Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

What’s worse, without customer experience metrics in place, is that you won’t know until it’s too late. At that point the impact of customer frustration will already be hurting your bottom line. What are Customer Experience Metrics? You can then choose the customer experience metrics you’d like to gather.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 26, 2019

According to research by Gartner, large organizations having their revenue crossing the mark of $1 billion own more than 50 CX metrics while some big organizations possess around 200 of them. How do you measure customer experience success? Go for the right CX metrics depending on this. Customer Experience Scorecard.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

What is a customer experience strategy, and why is it important? A customer experience strategy is a plan of action to improve the overall customer experience at every touch point in the customer journey, pre and post-sales. While setting goals, ensure they are measurable, attainable, and time-bound.

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Bold360

MAY 14, 2020

A lot of organizations have essentially just renamed the customer service environment or the contact center into their customer experience center and have not changed anything. That can wipe out a customer experience initiative’s energy and direction. Nate Brown. That kind of operational mindset is good context.

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Bold360

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The data relevant for routing purposes can be gained from: (1) initial discovery questions that ask customers what they want to do; (2) customer profile data pulled from your customer relationship management (CRM) system; and (3) customer journey data about what clicks the customer has made leading up to when/where they reached out for help.

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Ecrion

JUNE 9, 2020

Create Effective Customer Surveys. One of the keys to making a customer experience project successful is to gather qualitative data. Qualitative data is data that’s not based on metrics and numbers. Instead, it evaluates the customer’s opinions on the quality of the service or experience they received.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

By establishing metrics for factors like “time spent in the knowledge base,” “screens to resolution,” or “questions to authentication,” you will learn what agents experience when supporting customers. Alternatively, dissect average handle time for your agents’ phone conversations.

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Oracle

MAY 26, 2020

Pella’s passion for quality and innovation goes beyond the products and encompasses every part of the customer journey. In short, customer service directly impacts brand loyalty. Here’s how Pella improved their strategy, technology, and metrics to deliver exceptional experiences.

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Eptica

JUNE 13, 2018

Author: Taoufik Massoussi Understanding how your company is performing in terms of Customer Experience (CX) is a key part of benchmarking against competitors and identifying areas for improvement. There’s actually a hierarchy of interlinked CX measurement metrics that support each other. CX is an ongoing process.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

That approach yielded unimaginable yet remarkable anecdotes such as reps sending flowers if a customer fell ill, chatting with customers about their families (average handle time wasn’t a metric) and sending free replacement products if orders were reported defective.

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Quadient

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Operations might own the cost of postage, but the line of business leader controls the content and any revenue generated, while IT handles channel availability, which may not be the same for each department. With such complexity, the easiest metric for success often falls to the lowest common denominator – the volume delivered.

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Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And what happens more often is that the chief– the experience leader is coming in and everybody gets territorial, or a lot of people get territorial, and they end up not getting to have control or meaningful responsibility across the end to end customer journey. And then you build up your voice of customer engine.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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ShepHyken

JULY 11, 2022

Finally, this is an all-the-time consistent effort. Time to Emphasise Real-Time CX Metrics by Ginger Conlon. Customer Experience Magazine) Developing new approaches to measurement is a priority for businesses that want to drive agile decision making. My Comment: Here’s another excellent article on CX metrics.

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ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

What's the meaning of customer experience management (CEM)? Customer experience management (CEM) stands for efforts organizations takes to make the customer experience and customer journey as seamless and resolute as possible.

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Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Analytics can provide actionable insight into various metrics, from average handle time to time to answer to total incoming calls. Ultimately, analytics tell a story of your customer journey while helping reduce agent frustration and the costs of running a contact center.

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InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This method harnesses the power of data and insights to gain a deeper understanding of customers, their preferences, and their interactions with a company. We’ll explore what customer experience analytics is, where it comes from, important metrics to consider, its benefits, real-world examples, and how to drive value from this practice.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” But how should human versus chatbot metrics be treated? This depends on the metric.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

One of those considerations is metrics. As Forrester notes in their 2016 report, How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management , “Every customer interaction leaves a trail of customer data waiting to be analyzed.” But how should human versus chatbot metrics be treated? This depends on the metric.

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Stella Connect

JUNE 25, 2018

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. It captures the efficiency of your team, tells you how well you’re serving customers, and highlights what needs work. When it’s high, operating costs are minimized and customers are happier. Segment customers by common issues.

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