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The Spectrum of Data-Driven CX (And Why There’s No Magic Metric)

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

CX teams use a variety of metrics to guide their efforts, drive improvements, and measure ROI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also changing the game and making time-to-insights faster and more efficient. This is often because there is a lack of resources — managing one or two metrics is all one person or team can handle.

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This Call May Be Recorded: How Conversation Intelligence Is Transforming the Contact Center Industry

BlueOcean

For most of the history of the contact center industry, the standard for QA has been for a team lead, coach, or supervisor to review and score three contacts per agent per week. These efforts weren’t useless – they were, as noted, the standard. One percent of one percent… at best. Coaches would get to know the agents on their teams.

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26 Tips for Improving Your First Call Resolution Rate

Stella Connect

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. Why Is First Call Resolution So Critical? The higher your first call resolution rate, the more positive your customer experience and the higher your customers’ lifetime value (CLTV).

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26 Tips for Improving Your First Call Resolution Rate

Stella Connect

First Call Resolution (FCR) is the most important metric your contact center can measure. Why Is First Call Resolution So Critical? The higher your first call resolution rate, the more positive your customer experience and the higher your customers’ lifetime value (CLTV).

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Hold Queues : Ensures calls are answered promptly, minimizing wait times. Smart Call Routing : Directs calls to the most suitable agent based on expertise, language, or past interactions. This increases the likelihood of first-call resolution.

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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. Then and only then can you tie in First Call Resolution (FCR), AHT, and ASA, to really map out the quality of the entire customer success journey.

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How to Calculate Outsourced Call Center Service Level and Why is it Important?

Advantage Communications

These metrics - as discussed in our blog titled ‘ 7 Key Metrics to Look out for When Outsourcing Your Customer Service to a Call Center ’ - include First-Call Resolution (FCR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Call Abandonment Rates (CAR), Customer Effort Score (CES), Average Handle Time (AHT) and Service Level (SLA).