InMoment XI

JANUARY 27, 2025

Call centers focus on handling issues as quickly as possible, often at the expense of the bigger picture. But what if a contact center could become a powerful sales engine, transforming routine support calls into avenues for growth? million voice transcripts, 574,000 web chat transcripts, and 100,000 survey responses.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Social Media 195

Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

This is where modern contact centers are turning to cutting-edge solutions, including AI, to deliver real-time performance tracking and more actionable coaching. Agent performance is at the core of overall contact center productivity as well as customer experience quality.

Call Center 130

Call Center Measurement Self Service How To 130

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.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Contact Center Software Self Service Analytics 195

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?

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 130

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self Service Net Promoter Score Call Recording 52

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.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Omni-Channel Customer Satisfaction Retail 195

TechSee

APRIL 2, 2019

Today’s contact centers face a daunting challenge. Computer vision is the technology that enables computers to see, recognize and process images in the same way as humans – and then some. Over the past few years, computer vision AI has emerged as a key customer-facing technology in both the B2C and B2B realms.

Contact Center 174

Contact Center Self Service Video Average Handle Time 174

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. The rate at which contact center technology has evolved accelerated during the pandemic years.

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Industry Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 177

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. Be realistic about your risk tolerance.

Contact Center 156

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. Be realistic about your risk tolerance.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Employee Engagement Average Handle Time Culture 156

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.

Call Center 130

Call Center How To Contact Center Gamification 130

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

By collecting direct and indirect insights into customer behaviorwhether its related to customer service experiences in the contact center or pain points elsewhere in their journeybusinesses can uncover insights that help them better cater to customer needs and improve their overall experience. Peckham Inc.

Analytics 130

Analytics Customer Experience Contact Center Effort Score 130

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.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Abandon Rate Self Service Average Handle Time 52

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?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Self Service Average Handle Time 52

BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. We’ve long been proponents of making transactional customer service low effort, for both customer and contact center. So let’s get into it. Those first three are what we’d expect.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Customer Experience Self Service Chatbots 156

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

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! The best WFM technology and forecasting algorithms in the market won’t help if you’re historical data set is not appropriate, complete, or accurate!

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

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! The best WFM technology and forecasting algorithms in the market won’t help if you’re historical data set is not appropriate, complete, or accurate!

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

TechSee

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The traditional contact center – with agents in cubicles following scripts and rushing to meet individual KPIs – will soon be a thing of the past. Agent collaboration also enables a higher First Contact Resolution (FCR) rate by eliminating time-consuming escalations. What’s the climate of your contact center?

Contact Center 117

Contact Center Culture Self Service Wireless 117

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our last post we talked about how using a “Contact Center as a Service” (CCaaS) may be a better use of resources as opposed to purchasing and maintaining contact center technology in your own data center. Explain how a contact center upgrade will improve KPI’s. Here is a quick example.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Average Handle Time Financial CRM 120

TechSee

AUGUST 10, 2023

TechSee’s visual automation platform uses computer artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to enhance customer and contact center engagements. TechSee’s Computer Vision AI and AR can improve issues facing customer contact centers around first-call resolution, average handling times, and truck roll avoidance.

Connections 206

Connections Contact Center Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 206

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As cloud communications companies like RingCentral and inContact have matured, the contact center world has been seeing an increasingly rapid move to the cloud. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center. I came away from that call a more satisfied customer.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Average Handle Time Insurance Conference 120

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Now more than ever, customers want fast and efficient service.

Virtual Agent 120

Virtual Agent Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time 120

Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. What Is Contact Center Technology?

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Technology Self Service Average Handle Time 98

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score Self Service 120

NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. The AHT is a KPI that contact centers always strive to improve. But, how is the Average Handling Time (AHT) calculated?

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Contact Center Management Call Center 52

TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Assisting customers using visuals can add efficiency and significantly cut costs in three areas of customer service: the contact center. Visual Assistance in the Contact Center. Visual assistance bridges the visual gap between customers and contact centers. field services. self-service.

Self Service 207

Self Service Customer Service How To Contact Center 207

Advantage Communications

MARCH 9, 2021

Successful customer service programs rely on highly-skilled customer service agents and innovative technologies to achieve world-class customer experiences. On top of that, however, they also need to focus on analytics.

Average Handle Time 98

Average Handle Time Analytics Innovation Technology 98

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.

Contact Center 142

Contact Center Tips Management Call Center 142

BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

Measuring deep into the trenches of the contact center is an absolute must. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? All these contact center metrics and more add up to give us a picture of call center performance.

Call Center 156

Call Center Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time 156

TechSee

MAY 14, 2019

Analysis of Average Handling Time is deeply entrenched in the customer service field and almost every contact center manager wants to improve AHT. AHT = Total Talk Time + Total Hold Time + Total Post-Call Work/Number of Calls Handled. How to improve AHT with technology.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center Average Handle Time Self Service Net Promoter Score 95

TechSee

JUNE 4, 2019

Nowhere is that truer than in call center training – bringing new agents up to speed on products, processes and the productivity expected of them. Traditionally, contact centers have trained new agents using one-on-one coaching or classroom-style role-playing, where the focus is on imparting knowledge and customer service etiquette.

Call Center 117

Call Center Training Technology Gamification 117

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Call Center Dashboard vs Contact Center Dashboard A call center dashboard tracks performance by focusing on phone-based interactions. On the other hand, a contact center dashboard covers multiple communication channels, including phone, SMS, email, chat, and social media.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. As the technology matures, many companies will inevitably look for holistic AI solutions that unify customer and operational data to achieve the most valuable and actionable insights.

Technology 122

Technology Customer Service Contact Center Omni-Channel 122

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. ” Techniques to optimize time.

Call Center 196

Call Center Self Service Strategy Contact Center 196

InMoment XI

MARCH 22, 2025

CI leverages technologies like machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to assess customers language patterns, tones, and response dynamics, eliminating the need to manually sift through thousands of calls, chats, and emails. What Is Conversational Intelligence (CI)?

Effort Score 195

Effort Score Average Handle Time Contact Center Customer Retention 195

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

This article underlines the value of DSS in customer service and focuses on the potential computer vision brings to call/chat centers, where providing a positive customer experience (CX) at scale is critical to success in the current competitive business climate. Current state of DSS in contact centers.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center System Average Handle Time Virtual Agent 95