BlueOcean

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Running an effective and efficient procurement process for a contact center partner is easier said than done – even for seasoned indirect sourcing professionals and folks in the C suite. On the tour, it became clear that the culture/facilities of one of those two vendors was simply not a fit for their brand. After the RFP.

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Contact Center How To Effort Score Comparison 149

BlueOcean

JUNE 12, 2018

Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Understanding with complete clarity which measures of success are most important to your organization is the most important aspect of the contact center transition.

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Contact Center Abandon Rate Resources Communication 209

BlueOcean

AUGUST 7, 2018

Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) Search online for vendors and assess their websites for culture fit, suite of services and solutions, and self-reported strengths. Draft Your Contact Center RFP. Planning for 2019 already?

Contact Center 189

Contact Center Effort Score Culture Fashion 189

BlueOcean

MAY 29, 2019

Picture this: You’re in the RFP process for a new contact center partner. Finally, you’re down to two choices – both options have versatile capabilities and impressive metrics. Finally, you’re down to two choices – both options have versatile capabilities and impressive metrics. You have a short list of participants.

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Contact Center Culture Comparison Exercises 185

BlueOcean

JUNE 6, 2017

At first glance, attrition seems like a chink in the armor for contact centers. Across every industry, the fact that people leave their jobs and move on is a basic truth, but in the contact center, the attrition metric receives quite of a bit of negative attention. Here’s what you need to know.

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Contact Center Call Center Employee Engagement Employee Experience 218

Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the afternoon after my journey mapping workshop I attended a Justin Robbin’s session on metrics. Justin began by asking attendees the most important metric they tracked. The post What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric? It’s always a great conference, and I look forward to it each year.

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Contact Center Metrics Customer Journeys Conference 120

Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. Here’s the blueprint for achieving greater agent productivity in your call center. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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Contact Center Measurement Call Center How To 74

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Before we sign off for the holiday break, we want to give shouts to all the frontline agents and coaches holding it down for clients and customers in contact centers everywhere. A reminder that the struggle to sustain morale when it’s holiday season in the contact center is real. at Blue Ocean. We’d love to hear from you.

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Contact Center Gamification Transportation Travel 156

BlueOcean

JUNE 21, 2017

Looking for an outsourced contact center partner is one of the most complex undertakings for any strategic sourcing professional. It requires a thorough understanding of the contact center world as well as the inner workings of your organization’s processes, business objectives, and brand promises. Start with the Basics.

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Contact Center Tips Culture Call Center 174

Playvox

APRIL 4, 2023

Every workplace has its pros and cons, but contact center agents have one of the toughest jobs out there. Just like agents are protecting your company, contact center leaders and managers need to protect them and their mental health. Burnout Burnout is at the heart of poor emotional well-being in a contact center.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Study Feedback 78

Playvox

MARCH 12, 2023

Running a smooth and efficient contact center can feel like the ultimate struggle, but don’t worry, you’re not alone. Providing noteworthy customer experiences is a top priority for any business, and a well-run help desk, support center, or customer service center is the key to improving contact center performance.

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Contact Center Strategy Gamification Customer Satisfaction 52

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In the second episode, Building Continuous CX Improvements in Your Contact Center, Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, shared his expertise regarding how to build an all-star contact center. It is tempting to wait to establish a metrics set until changes have already started happening.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Effort Score NPS 120

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When we are honest with ourselves, we all know culture is the linchpin for everything we do in the Contact Center. We have the very best and newest technology, hire the perfect “on-paper” resumes, and have the budget of King Tut, but without a healthy, positive working culture…these things are essentially meaningless.

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Culture Contact Center Leadership Employee Engagement 244

NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center?

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Contact Center Call Center Management Gamification 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

Often, CRM systems are the tools used to track important customer data and feedback metrics.) CEM is no different, but tracking metrics alone is not a strategy. The bottom line here is that if you ONLY focus on customer metrics, you’ll miss an opportunity to make a real business impact. Strategy First. Define Success Always!

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ROI CEM Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 260

Playvox

APRIL 5, 2022

But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. How do you build a high performance contact center? These enable you to make progress on your most pressing challenges and transform into a high performance contact center.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Effort Score Metrics 77

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

If enhancing your customer experience is a strategic priority over the next 12 months, you might be looking at putting out a contact center RFP or RFI early in the new year. While some industries benefit from limits, the contact center world is very dependent on more intangible factors like cultural alignment and customer experience.

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Contact Center Call Center Report Transportation 149

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

You know the brands that do customer culture well. In a word, it all comes back to the culture. The Disney Way” or “Zappos Culture” is shorthand for that relentless view to prioritize customers, their wellbeing, and their goals. Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture: 1.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Government 190

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.

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Contact Center Self Service Customer Satisfaction Metrics 52

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. Communication.

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Contact Center Software Contact Center Software eBook 52

Playvox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Call avoidance is a common issue in contact centers and must be dealt with to ensure a positive experience for your customers. But agents can quickly become frustrated and overwhelmed when dealing with irate customers and high contact volumes, leading them to avoid interactions. 6 Tips For Writing Your Contact Avoidance Policy.

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Contact Center Policies eBook Interaction 77

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a contact center, facilitate managing the large volume of daily customer interactions by using essential CRM strategies. CRM software enables contact centers to easily store and access customer information such as purchase history and contact details. This information is used to make data-driven decisions.

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Contact Center CRM Measurement Strategy 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 7, 2020

There is a myth that customer-centric cultures happen by intuition and a little magic. ” Building a truly customer-centric culture is a strategy that requires business discipline and real practices. How can leaders continue to focus on brand culture today, in times of social distancing? “Their people just get it!”

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Customers 178

Call Experts

JULY 28, 2022

Contact center support is a vital part of any business. A contact center can help save you time and money while delivering outstanding service to your customers. The right contact center will improve customer satisfaction , which leads to increased sales and profitability. What Is A Contact Center?

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Contact Center Call Center Knowledge Base Customer Satisfaction 52

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Of course, greater retail sales inevitably lead to higher call volume in the contact center. Here are some key tactics for coping with holiday spikes in the contact center. It may be that a reduced incident rate will be more important than a reduced average length of a phone call, so adjust your metrics as necessary.

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Contact Center Gamification Retail Course 136

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 10, 2016

But too many contact centers assume the opposite; that your journey starts the moment an agent picks up the phone. As a contact center, we might be checking all the boxes in our call flow process, but that doesn’t mean the customer necessarily had a great experience. Measuring, Training, and Coaching.

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Customer Journeys Contact Center Call Flow First Call Resolution 120

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. Looking for the right contact center partner to outsource your customer success?

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Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

Playvox

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. According to industry studies , average annual turnover ranges between 30-45 percent – with some centers experiencing turnover into the triple digits. Some contact centers experience almost no turnover at all.

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Contact Center Gamification Culture Employee Engagement 68

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically. As a result, the tools, technology, and procedures that contact centers will need to adapt to hybrid work patterns that must be carefully evaluated.

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Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Contact centers and almost no industry has been spared, as working habits, job schedules, communication patterns and technologies have all been altered drastically. As a result, the tools, technology, and procedures that contact centers will need to adapt to hybrid work patterns that must be carefully evaluated.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

Seaton CX

MAY 24, 2023

We’re obsessed with metrics. AI analyzes every call to the contact center. Despite our obsession with metrics, we aren’t acting on them effectively. By incentivizing programmers to achieve a metric-based target, Chad created unintended consequences. That’s Goodhart’s Law.)

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Metrics Customer Experience Contact Center Average Handle Time 59

BlueOcean

MAY 16, 2017

True or false: your outsourced contact center provider is just another vendor. Attempting to establish a strategic partnership with your contact center is like chasing a unicorn. In that context, is it actually possible to have a strategic partnership with your contact center? It’s a valid question.

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Contact Center Call Center Government Culture 136

Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. But only 40% of support center managers we talked to said they were planning to continue remote work in 2022. The State of Remote Work in Contact Centers.

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Contact Center Management Policies Study 69

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Is There Still Cultural Alignment? Cultures evolve, that much is clear. Just as important – has their culture evolved with the times?

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Customer Care Contact Center Effort Score Net Promoter Score 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. Culture Describe your corporate culture including how it is differentiated from your competition.

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In essence, call centers bridge the gap between a business and its customers. Successful call centers have evolved their operations with contact center intelligence , embracing a more comprehensive approach to customer engagement.

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Call Center Strategy Management First Call Resolution 260

NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For call centers, metrics provide insights that shape strategies and determine operational efficiency. Among these metrics, the “Talk” metric stands out as a vital instrument. Understanding the Average Talk Time metric Average Talk Time represents the actual duration an agent spends conversing with a customer.

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Call Center Metrics Contact Center Customer Satisfaction 52