Smashing the scourge of overtime
Many a manager and business leader has to deal with the challenge of overtime at some point in their careers. From an employee’s perspective it can be a positive, with those few extra pennies making a difference when staff decide to …
Automation is a word on the lips of many a business professional these days. Inevitably it inspires hope for the future for many a decision-maker, but it’s also responsible for raising fears amongst workers that their jobs might be under threat. With OECD figures predicting …
Yogi Berra didn’t know much about contact centers, but he seems to have had great insight into the first phase of the workforce planning process when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. The simple fact is that the complex workforce …
Much has been written about the constant change in the expectations consumers have for customer service. From the strongly-worded letter and social media brand shaming to the ever-growing preference to conduct agentless support interactions when/where possible, consumer behavior is a lot like the weather in …
Once a popular buzzword, customer satisfaction has become a standard in defining business operations and one that requires measurement and adjustment of platforms and processes. In fact, not measuring customer satisfaction to identify and implement improvement opportunities is akin to throwing away revenue.
The tendency for …
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 …
The millennial generation has become the single largest age group in the U.S. workforce and is projected to spend $1.4 trillion annually by 2020. As the first generation of digital natives to enter the workforce, they have also changed how businesses interact with customers, which …
When it comes to customer engagement, there’s no better resource than your brand advocates. Naturally, your products or services have to meet standards of excellence – including your contact center operations – but with so many buying options, advocacy carries more weight than ever.
Many companies …
Contact centers that understand the tremendous benefits to be had from advanced analytics will likely be the same ones that lead the pack in introducing Artificial Intelligence into the contact center. How could it be any other way? The likelihood of introducing AI is all …
Most of us know about Amazon’s acquisition of Ring.com back in February of this year, the second largest acquisition ever made by Amazon, exceeded only by their acquisition of Whole Foods. It’s been a wild ride since Ring’s rejection on Shark Tank back in 2013 …
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