With the increasingly urgent need to make their workforces more productive, technology is often touted as a powerful enabler of greater efficiency and improved employee morale. While this is certainly true, this can only be effectively achieved if workers have access to tools that are …
Contact Center Industries
“It’s Complicated” (But Aspect has an answer to multichannel forecasting)
In 1917 Danish mathematician A.K. Erlang developed a model for predicting how many circuits the telephone company would needed to serve the city of Copenhagen. The model became known as Erlang C and eventually became the mathematical foundation for both automated and manual forecasting models …
Staff Burnout and Technology – The Perfect Pair
It’s no secret that physician burnout is a major issue.
Medscape’s National report on Physician Burnout and depression found thatnearly two-thirds of U.S. physicians report feeling burned-out, depressed or both and of the physicians who reported burnout, 56% chose “an excess of bureaucratic tasks” as a …
Don’t let your customer strategy get too swept up in World Cup fever
It’s safe to say that the World Cup creates a sense of excitement across the nation, with brands all over the world looking to cash in on the action, using it as a way of promoting particular products or offers. Similarly, it provides an opportunity …
Natural language processing and the pursuit of excellent customer self-service
With convenience being king for consumers in the omni-channel world that we live in, the appetite for automated customer self-service is greater than ever before. Many businesses have taken steps to make this a reality using tech such as text-based chatbots, but making self-service a …
The evolution of self-service technologies and the customer experience
The evolution of customer self-service
The way we shop, chat with our friends, read books, watch films, order food and hail a cab has completely changed over the last ten years. The modern consumer is now comfortable interacting with a company using multiple digital devices and …
Cloud is key for the future of contact centres
Every business knows great customer service is important, but with a growing reliance on digital communications and online services, organisations need to have an effective engagement platform in place that can cope with high volumes of requests, actions and tasks.
Here at Aspect, we help businesses …
We’re in the running for three cloud awards!
We’re in a celebratory mood over at Aspect Europe HQ, as the hard work from our dedicated teams over the last few months has been recognised by being shortlisted for not one, not two, but three UK Cloud Awards!
This year’s ceremony is reported to be …
You Don’t Have to be Amazon to Master Personalized Customer Service
The king of customer service continues to reign. Just a couple days ago, Amazon officially released how many Prime customers it has, over 100 million. For readers that happen to not be one of those 100 million, Prime members are customers that pay a yearly …
Improve Your IVR, Improve the Customer Experience
I’m lucky enough to live in a warm part of the country. Thanks to a certain mouse, it’s a convention and meeting mecca. This time of year is especially popular for companies in the Midwest who are in the midst of a never-ending winter. A …