CCNG

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a recent panel discussion with CCNG members on the topic of 2021 Contact Center Predictions, Ron shares a few perspectives learned from this year. First, companies found self service options inadequate – When COVID hit in March, many industries found their automated systems were inadequate to help handle call volumes.

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CCNG

AUGUST 28, 2024

While almost all industries are going digital, there’s one industry that is leading the charge in the digital revolution, i.e., Contact Centers. By rapidly embracing digital tools like AI, Analytics, and Automation, contact centers are completely changing how they function and deliver customer experience.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here we've compiled benchmark data, valuable customer insight, and a list of new strategies and innovative solutions to help you prepare for the future, develop your own adaptive contact center strategy, and get your business back on track. Emma English is Marketing & Communications Manager at Humach, a CCNG corporate member.

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CCNG

JULY 3, 2024

As companies worldwide strive to deliver exceptional CX while balancing other business-critical areas, they are embracing contact center outsourcing. By 2028, the market for contact center outsourcing is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.66% (2023-2028), reaching USD 132.92

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As contact center leaders, we have a very good grasp of the work we do for customers (‘The What’), but what is far more challenging to unearth is ‘The Why’.

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CCNG

MARCH 6, 2024

Do you sometimes feel like you are playing buzzword bingo when reading anything about AI in the contact center? A lot of customers who have spent a lifetime in the contact center and survived a world of acronyms like AHT, CSAT, and PICINC are feeling alienated in their own world. You are not alone.

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CCNG

APRIL 12, 2023

Demand and customer expectations are on the rise across all industries and those in the contact center industry can feel it. Customers, with no other choice than to contact companies in any fashion other than face-to-face, found new ways to engage with businesses. So, what makes for a healthy contact center?

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CCNG

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We all know that contact centers require a thoughtful balance of People, Process and Technology. The technology in a contact center, ideally, should support and enhance the other two components (People and Process). When it comes to technology, vendors are always pushing the next big thing.

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CCNG

JULY 22, 2021

My organization works with company’s contact centers to help them design and build effective digital engagements using the most acclaimed customer engagement application on the planet - Salesforce. Answer - Bots have the ability to unlock knowledge, to recommend answers to complex customer requests via self-service options.

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CCNG

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Budgets are getting tighter, and executive teams are asking contact center leadership to do more with a lower headcount. The drive toward self-service is a reality and with good reason, as customers want self-service. This experience adds more frustration for both the contact center agent and the customer.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Look upstream – Too often, contact center leaders are focused on navigating through their daily operational challenges that they neglect to look upstream to identify and resolve the process failures that initially caused the calls, complaints, or issues to occur in the first place.

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CCNG

JUNE 21, 2023

Modern contact centers support many digital channels, touchpoints and interaction modes. Plus, customers can seek self-service, assisted-service or proactive-service options. Power your self-service channels with a robust knowledge base so users can find the information they need.

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CCNG

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve seen companies pull back on spending in areas they believed to be “not as critical” (like customer support or the contact center) to the organization’s success, only to have it come back to haunt them. These same companies found themselves having slow growth and customer service and customer retention issues.

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CCNG

JANUARY 4, 2023

Elevating the Customer Experience (CX) is an obsession for the contact center industry, and rightly so. The experiences that customers have with your contact center condition the way they think about you as a supplier of goods and services and as a trusted part­ner in providing the things that they need and want in their lives.

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CCNG

JULY 27, 2022

Call centers measured customer satisfaction based on the speed at which an agent answered the phone and responded, regardless of whether the request was resolved. With the shift to multi-or omnichannel contact centers, today's emphasis is on customer experience.

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Altivon

MARCH 20, 2018

Chatbots, Omnichannel and Cloud are three top trends for contact centers. In the meantime, chatbots and blended AI are making their way into contact centers, providing additional self-service options and freeing agents for more complex interactions. The value of efficiency is probably obvious.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Adobe, 2022) 75% of marketing & CX practitioners have observed a surge in existing customers using digital channels (Adobe, 2022) 74% of CX professionals say creating a seamless customer journey across assisted and self-service channels is “important” or “very important.” Deloitte, 2021) 80.1%

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Avaya

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Dale is an active member and conference speaker at SOCAP, ICSA, and CCNG. This is a clear sign that brands should provide things like online FAQs, work towards lowering the barrier to self-service and not underestimate product reviews. Lower the barrier to self-service. Download the Full Report.

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CCNG

DECEMBER 25, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of CX providers and contact centers, communication and customer service plays a pivotal role in ensuring customer satisfaction. Ultimately, this led to contact center agents increasingly handling complaints, rather than spending time resolving issues.

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