This weekend marks another bank holiday in the UK, and with the warmer months settling in, you will no doubt begin to experience influxes in customers – both physically and online – as millions of people switch off from work and become more focused on …
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Winning the CX Iron Throne
Winning the CX Iron Throne
Call the banners; winter is here. The final season of Game of Thrones is upon us, and it’s shaping up to be the most wildly anticipated television premiere of all time. Great battles will be fought, blood will be shed and, …
Channel shift: customers like it, but only on their own terms!
Most customer-focused businesses are aware of channel shift, and many are currently grappling with how to make it a success. You want to encourage your tech-savvy customers to use newer, more efficient channels, but you don’t want to irritate your loyal followers in the process.
Recent …
Lifting the sickness burden: it’s not just about illness
It goes without saying that sickness is a burden on any business. If for whatever reason your levels of absence due to sickness are high, you’re constantly under the cosh as a business, scratching around to find people to cover shifts and minimise overall …
Flexible scheduling: A triple-win for businesses and their employees
Flexible working has become a fixture of the professional world. Flexible and short-term working arrangements have proven popular amongst staff in many industries, and shift scheduling has moved on from a ‘top down’ command-type arrangement into a two-way conversation between managers and employees.
The emerging generation …
Future success reliant on cloud-based workforce management software
Cloud technology for implementing and administering workforce management (WFM) technology is becoming increasingly important to businesses that are under pressure to maximise workplace productivity, reduce expenditure and improve their bottom line.
In our current economic climate of uncertainty and instability, all processes need to be managed …
Traditional comms channels: a last resort for consumers?
The humble telephone has been a fixture of the customer engagement experience for many decades. It’s still a hugely important piece of the puzzle, but the evolution in mindset of the younger generation means that it’s now becoming a last resort rather than a first …
Consumers increasingly comfortable with human-mimicking robots in customer service
As advanced technologies with machine learning capabilities become more and more commonplace and the general public become more accustomed to interacting with these types of technologies and virtual assistants – such as Amazon Alexa and Google home – more organisations are looking at how they …
Cloud: enabling contact centre AI
Over the last few years, artificial intelligence has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the contact centre and the tech world in general, with more and more organisations understanding the benefits that it can bring. Whether it’s improved efficiencies, cost reductions or improvements to …
The customer service advancements worth paying more for
Disruption to traditional business models in recent years has meant that today’s consumers are more demanding than ever – they expect to able to access services instantly through intuitive apps and experience great service at the same time – and, why shouldn’t they? Technological advancements …