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. These factors require some creativity when responding to and differentiating through the contact center RFP.

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Contact Center Call Center Report Transportation 149

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Here’s How Supply Chain and Shipping Visibility Improve Customer Experience In some circumstances, we know that contact center can feel like an island, siloed off from other functional business practices. After all, happy employees create happy customers. But if that’s really the case, you’re in for trouble.

Customer Care 177

Customer Care Trends Multi-Channel Contact Center 177

Uniphore

JUNE 9, 2021

In the contact center, the leading driver of improvements has been automation. Say goodbye to outdated Employee Experience (EX) metrics and KPIs How is your contact center currently measuring EX? If you’re like many contact centers, you’re probably looking at metrics like AHT and error rate.

Engagement 246

Engagement Contact Center How To Metrics 246

Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Employee Experience.

Contact Center 79

Contact Center Trends Omni-Channel CRM 79

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Regular readers of our blog know we frequently explore the factors that influence these choices and the overall customer experience and there’s no question agent empathy is a key factor for the success of the contact center-customer interaction. That makes us curious: can you train contact center agents in empathy?

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Contact Center Training Call Flow Interaction 120

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Performance Metrics and KPIs: Monitoring call center performance is essential. Metrics include First Call Resolution , Customer Satisfaction Score , and Call Handling Time 1. Agent Screen Capture: Monitoring and improving agent performance is a continuous challenge in call center optimization.

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Call Center Tools Contact Center Net Promoter Score 105

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 143

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. The hybrid work environment is growing, and businesses are continuing to implement new technology to equip their employees with the necessary tools to work from home.

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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. The hybrid work environment is growing, and businesses are continuing to implement new technology to equip their employees with the necessary tools to work from home.

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Contact Center e-support Culture Meeting 52

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

COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. Plus, they can potentially convert and retain their organization’s customers if they have a positive experience. Virtual hiring, training, onboarding and employee experience obstacles.

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Contact Center ROI Customer Journeys Touchpoint 52

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Contact centers must capture data in real-time and enter correctly into CRM systems to provide reporting for your business to make data-driven decisions. . Telephony provider Companies are looking for a partner that can provide telephony and contact center infrastructure. Understanding Contact Center Billing.

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Contact Center Call Center Customer Journeys Conference 59

Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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Call Center Self Service Contact Center Case Study 246

Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? How Workforce Optimization Works in a Contact Center The most valuable asset in a customer service organization or contact center is your workforce.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Net Promoter Score Effort Score 77

Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They make customers the center of their business strategy, execute on delivering outstanding customer experiences, and strive for continuous improvement. It’s often the continuous improvement or quality management (QM) piece where contact centers struggle. It’s often regarded as restrictive, costly, and an afterthought.

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Customer Centricity Contact Center Management Customer Satisfaction 83

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

The term empathy is key to engaging any kind of Customer Experience (CX), Member Experience (MX), Patient Experience (PX), and Employee Experience (EX) in any industry going forward in today’s climate. Original Article by By Stephen Leaden. It’s about running your organization as though you are the customer.

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Employee Experience Customer Experience Contact Center Culture 52

Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. AI-driven tools and platforms are shaping the way contact centers engage with and manage their workforce. Why Workforce Engagement Matters to Business?

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Engagement Contact Center How To Employee Engagement 73

BlueOcean

MAY 5, 2023

The contact center world is riddled with stereotypes of soul-crushing jobs. You’re looking for a partner who knows how to create a positive employee experience—after all, happy employees make for happy customers. Contact center turnover often results from a lack of professional development.

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Government 156

CSM Magazine

APRIL 27, 2022

Quantum Metric, the Continuous Product Design platform for customer-driven digital experiences, today announced an integration with ServiceNow to extend insight into individual customer experiences. Quantum Metric Embedded Replay is available in the ServiceNow Store. ” About Quantum Metric.

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Metrics Telecommunications Ecommerce Contact Center 52

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gamification is a strategy that drives motivation and engagement and creates a culture where employees continuously work to achieve the organization’s business objectives and, in turn, get rewarded and recognized. In a contact center setting, this can mean badges, a point system, and moving up to the next level when agents perform well.

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Gamification Contact Center Training Feedback 79

Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

Employee self-service allows employees to access a host of information and take care of simple processes themselves, such as requesting leave, checking on their schedules, performing shift swaps, and viewing their performance against KPI metrics. A display of group business metrics.

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Self Service Management Contact Center ROI 85

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

Marlene Kolodziej, DBA, ITIL, Senior Vice President, Service Delivery, Ricoh – Recently highlighted as a CX Innovator, Dr. Marlene is a champion for customer and employee experience, driving the adoption of technology, experience engagement, and process to accelerate and shape digital transformation.

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Contact Center Leadership Hospitality Chief Customer Officer 207

VDS

JUNE 28, 2019

5 Reasons to Launch Your Contact Center to the Cloud. As the primary point of interaction between your business and your customers, a contact center is often the heartbeat of an organization. Happy Employees Lead To Happy Customers. Agent turnover is still the number one challenge for contact centers.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Center Effort Score 40

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call. Two areas not typically considered in this metric, should be. The first is from the customer’s experience. My Comment: Are you making changes in your contact center (or plan to)?

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Customer Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Service Strategies 63

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Call center workforce management is the art and science of having the right number of agents available at the right times to answer an accurately forecasted volume of incoming customer contacts at the service level standard set by a contact center while minimizing cost. WFM to the rescue.

Call Center 52

Call Center Management Contact Center Omni-Channel 52

Bold360

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Employees are consumers, after all, and as such, they’re increasingly accustomed to frictionless user experiences with robust self-service options: 81% of customers say they try to self-serve before calling a contact center. AI can also remind employees to update and amend knowledge when relevant, even making suggestions.

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Self Service Employee Experience Knowledge Base Conference 59

COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BACKGROUND The COPC Standards Committee is a group of industry leaders composed of the largest buyers and providers of customer experience (CX) operational services, including contact center support. Additionally, it examines the terminology used in the Standard and identifies emerging metrics that are candidates for inclusion.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Metrics Training Call Center 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Examples of Reactive Customer Experience… And How to be Proactive Instead. Reactive CX: Metrics are Measured for Measurement’s Sake. Gathering customer feedback and objectively reviewing cold, hard facts in the form of metrics can be a job in itself. These are the questions metrics need to prompt.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To 143

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They no longer have interactions with them, and rely on others like account managers, frontline employees and customer service teams to provide those one-on-one interactions. Better customer experience creates a cycle for better employee experiences. Article] Is Customer Experience Worth It?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Management Feedback 376

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2022

So, I called the contact center. In this episode, we talk with special guest Jóhann Hannesson , Lead Product Manager and the head of Web Development at Streem , about using video in a Customer Experience. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. Customer Experience Information & Resources.

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Video Customer Experience Contact Center Case Study 89

Playvox

MARCH 29, 2022

As one of the newest terms to enter the contact center space, workforce engagement management (WEM) is much more than a simple change in the words we use. All you have to do is place yourself in the contact center agent’s shoes. Do you want to be optimized? Most likely the answer is no. ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE?

Engagement 60

Engagement Management Contact Center Competitive Advantage 60

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage. So, without further introductions, let’s go ahead and get started.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Chatbots 40

Think Customers

JULY 2, 2019

Companies, Matulich noted, still debate which metrics matter and strive to deliver value to the customer. We’ve experienced the age of the customer and now the age of the employee is upon us,” Matulich said. The post Contact Center Leaders: Look Back to Look Forward appeared first on 1to1 Media.

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Contact Center Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Conference 40

Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

Maximizing workforce management efficiency through real-time data is an often-overlooked advantage for contact centers. With real-time information, you can make crucial intraday adjustments that improve your efficiency and your customer experience. WFM forecaster and WFM scheduler are typical roles in a bigger business.

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Data Management Contact Center Abandon Rate 54

Qualtrics

JULY 31, 2019

Yet one opportunity is often overlooked, especially early in an organization’s experience management journey: uncovering gaps in the employee experience (EX). A fundamental truth of customer experience (CX) is that it flows from the employee experience of an organization. Misaligned Metrics and Incentives.

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Employee Experience Feedback Customer Experience Policies 40

Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

While I’m hopeful a lot has changed in the past 8 years, I fear it hasn’t as organizations continue to struggle with integrating customer and employee experience strategies fully into their DNA. To achieve an industry leading customer-centered focus in an organization, the experience can’t be an initiative or program.

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Connections Customer Experience Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

When designing a balanced scorecard, include the metrics related to your core values and ensure they are weighted appropriately. Organizations frequently have a gap between leadership and employee perception of alignment with their statement of direction. Scorecards should have views into performance over time compared to targets.

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Metrics Average Handle Time Guidelines Measurement 71