NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

In fact, implementing NICE inContact CXone has resulted in significant improvements in everything from average handle time (AHT) to average speed of answer (ASA) to quality assurance scores. Even sales increased as a residual benefit! Issues are identified and addressed immediately.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Gamification Retail 120

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But the Houston-based company was losing sleep over its two contact centers. But Mattress Firm could rest easy once it switched to NICE inContact CXone, the cloud-based, customer experience platform that supports workforce management, quality management and skills-based routing. billion in annual sales (2016).

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Omni-Channel Retail 121

InMoment XI

MARCH 14, 2025

In any call center or contact center, performance is the engine that powers the entire operation. High-performing call centers do a great job at keeping customers satisfied, and theyre highly efficient, reducing operational costs. Analyzing call center performance is the path to improvementbut youve got to do it right.

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Call Center Metrics Tools First Call Resolution 195

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

Workforce Management How to Measure, Evaluate, and Improve Call Center Agent Performance Share In today’s competitive business landscape, call center agents serve as the critical frontline, directly shaping customer perceptions and driving brand loyalty. In order to improve it, contact centers must be able to measure it.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 27, 2025

Thats when those budget discussions become less about managing costs and more about tracking investments. Shifting the Cost Center Mindset To understand the perception of call centers as cost centers, lets start with the cold, hard math: a typical inbound customer service call costs an average of $2 per interaction.

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Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Social Media 195

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. With that in mind, we reached out to Paul Jones, an award-winning hotel manager within the Best Western organization. Encouraging the act of effective listening requires effective management.

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InMoment XI

JULY 25, 2024

The contact center experience can make or break your customer’s overall experience with your organization. What Is a Contact Center Experience? Why is the Contact Center Experience Important? The contact center experience is a crucial part of the overall customer journey.

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Contact Center Contact Center Software Self Service Analytics 195

NICE inContact

JANUARY 31, 2019

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? To understand todays technologies and what they mean to your business is key to help make the right investments in your customer experience – here are some of the most researched contact center terms: .

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Effort Score 186

InMoment XI

JANUARY 10, 2024

Contact centers are not new by any means. As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers. The future of the contact center lies in the omnichannel contact center.

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Contact Center Omni-Channel Customer Satisfaction Retail 195

NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

The current decade has brought many changes to quality management, including the increase of treating customer interactions using omnichannel – the ability to handle queries flexibly across self-service and agent-assisted media channels with full context. Change Brought by Artificial Intelligence. Increased session length could.

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NICE inContact

MAY 14, 2019

As I slogged along the 101 here in Southern California recently, I realized that my navigation is a lot like the intraday management and reforecasting capabilities available within workforce management platforms. First, What Is Intraday Management? That’s where intraday management and reforecasting comes into play!

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Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Course 136

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

But for those of us who work in contact center workforce management (WFM), the connections are obvious. Predictive pattern analysis is essential to managing a baseball team, and at Blue Ocean, we live by it, too. It’s what helps us manage call center resources to meet our service levels and operate at peak performance.

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Contact Center Management How To Call Center 74

CSM Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

If your contact center feels like its constantly busy but your customer satisfaction scores remain low, chances are there are hidden inefficiencies hampering performance. Identifying and reducing these inefficiencies can turn your contact center into a streamlined operation that delivers exceptional support.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time First Call Resolution Measurement 154

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 Share Call Quality Monitoring: Best Practices and Tech for More Effective QA in 2025 What area do you see as the biggest opportunity for growth in your contact center? Why is call quality monitoring so important in the contact center?

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Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 130

NICE inContact

JUNE 5, 2019

However, every day in the contact center, supervisors and managers send incomplete messages to their agents, failing to prescribe what “medicine” is needed to correct their performance problems. So how can you effectively “treat” your contact center with invaluable coaching medicine? Select the Right QM Platform.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Exercises Video 136

Thematic

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Contact centers are the frontlines of customer interaction. They handle millions of conversations on a daily basis. That’s where contact center sentiment analysis comes in. In this guide, we’ll explore why sentiment analysis matters for contact centers and what types of data you might want to use.

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Contact Center Analysis Net Promoter Score Effort Score 62

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Intraday management. Real-time adherence.

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Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. In Part Two, we will seek to address intraday management and employee engagement as components of a WFM program. Intraday management. Real-time adherence.

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Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

Forecasting is a critical component of a call center’s workforce management program. A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! What if I don’t have historical data? So feed your forecast well!

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Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

Forecasting is a critical component of a call center’s workforce management program. A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! What if I don’t have historical data? So feed your forecast well!

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Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you in the middle of “contact center RFP season”? We segmented the questions into six key sections: Company Overview Agent Workforce Contact Center Reporting Project Management Technology Pricing Company Overview Get to know the history and organization of the vendor.

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Contact Center Employee Engagement Average Handle Time Culture 156

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Are you in the middle of “contact center RFP season”? We segmented the questions into six key sections: Company Overview Agent Workforce Contact Center Reporting Project Management Technology Pricing Company Overview Get to know the history and organization of the vendor.

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Contact Center Employee Engagement Average Handle Time Culture 156

TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s contact centers face a daunting challenge. From small helpdesks operated by specialist manufacturers to vast contact centers run by leading telecoms and consumer electronics providers, end users can now receive faster, more effective service and support from both live human agents and virtual assistants.

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Contact Center Self Service Video Average Handle Time 174

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. With that in mind, we reached out to Paul Jones, an award-winning hotel manager within the Best Western organization. Encouraging the act of effective listening requires effective management.

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Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

Comm100

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Contact center management is a difficult job. Even as an outsider, if you’ve spent any time at all working alongside a call center or contact center you’ve probably seen the same mistakes being made by management over and over regardless of the company, the market, the product or customer base.

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Contact Center Tips Management Call Center 165

NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Average Handle Time (AHT) : This measures how long agents spend on calls, including after-call work.

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Contact Center Abandon Rate Self Service Average Handle Time 52

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Thanks to advances in AI, the latest customer experience analytics tools are enabling businesses to analyze seemingly countless interactions in real time and driving a new level of precision for service, sales, marketing, product management, and beyond. Improved performance management and agent empowerment.

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Analytics Customer Experience Contact Center Effort Score 130

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

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Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 121

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping.

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Call Center How To Contact Center Gamification 130

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We’re making it easier than ever for contact center managers to bring together the most powerful solution to operate your contact center, to drive efficiency and productivity, and to give your agent a streamlined desktop with everything they need in one place.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Self Service CRM 27

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s no secret that your contact center is the first line of defense with your customers – making it the most important touchpoint in the customer journey. That’s where contact center analytics comes into play. What is Contact Center Analytics? However, what are the benefits of contact center analytics?

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Contact Center Analytics Self Service Average Handle Time 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When it comes to reducing expenses within contact center operations, one of the best ways to do so is to reduce the amount of time that live agents spend on the phone. With that being said, one of the biggest time-consumers of live agent minutes comes from repetitive and tedious data gathering.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Data Average Handle Time 122

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But if you are a contact center manager, you aren’t measured solely on your own personal performance. One powerful way is to integrate your customer relationship management (CRM) system and your contact center software. No matter what your job is, you are measured on performance.

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Contact Center CRM Contact Center Software Self Service 24

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

A higher FCR indicates that a contact center is handling more interactions efficiently and effectively in a single interaction, leading to increased customer satisfaction and reduced operational costs. Research from the SQM Group finds that the average FCR across all industries is about 68%.

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First Call Resolution Examples Contact Center How To 100

BlueOcean

AUGUST 15, 2016

One that integrates clear directions with real-time data about road construction, traffic jams, tolls, and alternative route options. It’s the same for contact center reporting. Reporting on Average Handle Times and Average Speed of Answer, as well as other key metrics, is standard in contact center reporting.

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Contact Center Report Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 120