InMoment XI

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Contact centers play a significant role in customer experience management. They provide a central platform for handling customer interactions across various channels. Customers expect quick and seamless support when they pick up the phone or type an email. It boosts customer satisfaction.

Contact Center 195

Contact Center Customer Satisfaction ROI Virtual Agent 195

TechSee

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They handled FAQs and quick questions, giving us a taste of automated CX and support. But in today’s world, your customers expect more. This is where AI-driven customer service experiences truly stand out. Fewer repeat calls means lower support costs and happier customers. Enter AI agents.

Customer Service 124

Customer Service ROI Average Handle Time Multi-Channel 124

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The insight about exceptional customer service and the customer experience is still rock solid, and so we decided to revisit the article entering 2025. When it comes to customer experience , there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We work hard to set expectations up front.

Exceptional Customer Service 156

Exceptional Customer Service Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center 156

TechSee

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Customer experience, or CX, is a fundamental component that determines the success of a business. Companies thriving today recognize that finding ways to improve customer experience is not just an option but a strategic necessity for 2025, with all the opportunities and challenges that it entails, and beyond.

Customer Experience 124

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Culture 124

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

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.

Call Center 130

Call Center Measurement Self Service How To 130

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Analytics Customer Experience (CX) Analytics: A Complete Guide for 2025 Share Today, the experiences businesses offer their customers before, during, and after purchase are every bit as important as the products and services they sell. What is Customer Experience Analytics? Some might even say that CX is more important.

Analytics 130

Analytics Customer Experience Contact Center Effort Score 130

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. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. How do metrics and standards play a role in customer service?

Customer Service 353

Customer Service Hospitality Contact Center Hotels 353

InMoment XI

JANUARY 27, 2025

Part of that is just the nature of the business, with primary use cases revolving around KPIs weighed down by negative connotationsmetrics like problem resolution rates, customer effort scores, and churn. In that light, goal-setting often becomes an exercise in mitigation: reducing call volumes, minimizing customer effort, and curbing churn.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Effort Score Social Media 195

TechSee

JANUARY 19, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days, and it’s changing how businesses interact with their most prized asset: their customers. Orchestration helps ensure that the right AI or multiple AI solutions come together to handle the right job at the right time, making service smoother and more effective.

Net Promoter Score 109

Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Chatbots NPS 109

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. off the phone) – upsetting the least number of hurdles, extra points for a graceful gait – was the champion, the most successful, the most likely to win “customer service agent of the year.”.

Metrics 219

Metrics Customer Care Measurement Contact Center 219

TechSee

JANUARY 27, 2025

In this blog post, I’ll explain what Reasoning is, why it matters in customer service, and how it elevates customer experiences. Instead of simply following pre-defined rules, AI Reasoning allows AI to understand complex customer issues and guide users step by step through complex processes. What is AI Reasoning?

Interaction 124

Interaction Average Handle Time Multi-Channel Chatbots 124

Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it.

Metrics 240

Metrics Self Service Customer Experience Effort Score 240

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times.

Contact Center 310

Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

Comm100

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Chatbots have steadily grown in popularity to become a key component of customer service today. With a bot handling most chats, this means organizations can increase support capacity without growing team size, while also delivering 4/7 availability to their customers. Average Handle Time (AHT).

Chatbots 246

Chatbots Metrics Average Handle Time Wait Times 246

Amplifai Coaching Category

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Learn how AHT drives boosts productivity, improves agent morale, and drives customer satisfaction. Learn how to calculate average handle time, tips to improve your contact center's AHT, the pitfalls to avoid, and more.

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Call Center Contact Center Strategy 52

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This multinational communications, electronics and IT corporation has a health solutions arm delivering connected devices for which Blue Ocean provides both sales support and customer service support. As such, once customers were connected to a live agent, the agent would need to verify account information and manually enter other details.

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Case Study Study Communication Average Handle Time 149

TechSee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The discussion around how to reduce customer service costs is not a new one. For decades, service organizations have been proposing innovative ways to cut operational costs in customer service: Let employees bring their own coffee? ??. Limit call times to 3 minutes each? How to Reduce Customer Service Costs Sustainably.

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Self Service Customer Service How To Contact Center 207

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

A McKinsey survey revealed customer care leaders top growth priorities included customer experience improvement, technology implementation, and identifying revenue growth opportunities. A survey by HubSpot reports that 63% of companies are spending more time prioritizing CX. What is call quality monitoring?

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 130

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Looking to improve your customer service? KPIs can measure the success of a company’s customer service strategy, the quality and effectiveness of its support, how well its agents are performing, and more. If you want more customer engagement, consider switching to a proactive live chat strategy. Live Chat Benchmark Report 2022.

Measurement 246

Measurement Average Handle Time Wait Times Effort Score 246

Calabrio

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Analytics Voice Analytics: Unlock Insights in Your Contact Center Conversations Share In the data-driven contact center of today, understanding the nuances of customer conversations is paramount. And with the help of voice analytics solutions, call centers can leverage AI to turn the voice of the customer into a source of valuable insights.

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Analytics Analysis Self Service 130

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

MARCH 23, 2020

Despite the industry’s focus on the customer experience (CX), contacts still take too long and don’t reach closure often enough. They really want to help customers. They also want to achieve the center’s targets for Service Level (SL), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Contact Resolution (FCR), among others.

Average Handle Time 156

Average Handle Time Tools Technology Customer Experience 156

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. Increased session length could.

Omni-Channel 45

Omni-Channel Management Contact Center Self Service 45

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Analytics Are You Measuring These Critical Customer Experience Metrics? Share Customer experience may be all about customers, but its backed up by numbers. Tracking experience metrics helps companies better understand customers and their needs, as well as the progress and ROI of their initiatives.

Metrics 130

Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time Customer Experience 130

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Two words: customer experience. Your agents represent your brand.

Metrics 161

Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center Guidelines 161

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Intact faced a challenge in managing its vast network of customer support call centers and required a workable solution within 6 months and long-term solution within 1 year. To address this, Intact turned to AI and speech-to-text technology to unlock insights from calls and improve customer service.

Customer Service 80

Customer Service Contact Center Insurance Financial 80

BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

The math provides us with insights on how to improve the customer experience and gain greater value for the client. We’re constantly asking questions like, how fast are agents answering calls (Average Speed to Answer)? What is the Average Handle Time? How does their attrition rate compare to the industry average?

Call Center 156

Call Center Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time 156

Northridge Group

MARCH 11, 2025

Download the full case study to learn how The Northridge Group helped a top healthcare provider: Reduce operational costs Improve employee experience (EX) Enhance customer experience (CX) Increase efficiency and profitability The Challenge A major healthcare provider needed to refine its customer service coaching program to improve Average Handle Time (..)

Healthcare 52

Healthcare ROI Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time 52

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Workforce Management 9 Contact Center Quality Assurance Best Practices: Modernize Your Approach, Optimize Your Performance Share Even as AI enters the picture, the human interaction between agent and customer is, and will remain, at the core of customer service operations. Struggling to understand your customers most common concerns?

Contact Center 130

Contact Center Call Center Effort Score Chatbots 130

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Designer Shoe Warehouse, better known as DSW, continues to find innovative ways to capitalize on that universal truth and keep customers coming back for more. Moreover, AI-powered customer self-service has boosted their CX as customers no longer wait in queue for routine (now automated) transactions related to order management.

Self Service 139

Self Service Virtual Agent Customer Experience Average Handle Time 139

Comm100

MAY 28, 2020

KPIs can be used to measure the success of a company’s customer service strategy, the quality and effectiveness of its support, how well its agents are performing, and more. Sometimes you do it to diagnose a specific problem, while other times you do it to make sure that everything is running smoothly and see what could be improved.

Average Handle Time 130

Average Handle Time Management eBook Effort Score 130

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you have a business, you have customers – otherwise, you won’t stay in business very long. And if you have customers, they will inevitably need support. This leads some businesses to think of customer support as a necessary evil, something you’d rather not have to deal with but can’t avoid. They begin with the customer.

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you have a business, you have customers – otherwise, you won’t stay in business very long. And if you have customers, they will inevitably need support. This leads some businesses to think of customer support as a necessary evil, something you’d rather not have to deal with but can’t avoid. They begin with the customer.

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

Comm100

APRIL 28, 2021

As easy as it is to support customers with live chat, live chat customer support operations should never be run blindly. Knowing how your team is performing is the key to delivering great customer service. It also helps to develop stronger ties with your customers, as well as more effective communication with your employees.

Measurement 170

Measurement Abandon Rate Net Promoter Score Wait Times 170

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. It can also help diagnose what’s happening when call times are too long or when there’s too much silence on the line.

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Industry Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 177