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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. However, the contact center should have been valued.

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10 Ways to Listen to Customers Without Surveys

CX Accelerator

Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%.

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24 Experts Reveal the Single Worst Thing a Contact Center Agent Can Do During a Call

Callminer

Talking to customers on the phone all day isn’t an easy job; that’s why it takes a special set of skills and characteristics to be a successful contact center agent. If you’re looking for ways to boost your agents’ performance, check out our white paper, Using Gamification to Improve Contact Center Performance.

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25 Call Center Leaders Share the Most Effective Ways to Boost Contact Center Efficiency

Callminer

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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The Inner Circle Guide to Remote & Hybrid Contact Center Solutions

43% of survey respondents were using homeworking, with 5% running a pilot scheme or about to set one up. In this handy guide, learn everything you need to build your ultimate contact center—with no walls and no limitations. In 2020, driven by the need to react to the pandemic, these figures were 75% and 5% respectively.

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2025 Contact Center Goals and Investment Priority Trends: Embracing AI for an Enhanced CX and EX

DMG Consulting

Our December 2024 survey addressed these topics for 2025. DMGs primary research findings reveal a single cornerstone connecting this years priorities: the growing application of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies in contact center and customer service operating environments. Are contact centers adopting AI?

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The Future of the Contact Center

Contact Center Pipeline

We embarked on a fun little survey this spring to gather input on the future of the contact center. Our focus was on which technologies are expected to have the greatest impact and what that impact might be. Impact of Automation on Frontline Staff We started with a general look forward into the expected impact […].

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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Attrition & The Contact Center Workforce

Attrition is a vital issue at contact centers: every year, nearly half of the contact center workforce leaves for voluntary or involuntary reasons. We surveyed over 2,000 agents and asked them to share what they need in order to stay in their role.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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Beyond the Hype: Contact Center AI That Works

Speaker: Sam Hahn, VP of Technology & Technology Evangelist, eGain Corporation

If AI is a red-hot topic, AI and knowledge management for contact centers is white hot! However, only 4% of respondents said they had even deployed AI, let alone get business benefits from it, according to a Gartner survey. Register for upcoming webinar “Beyond the Hype: Contact Center AI That Works”.

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Beyond the Contact Center: Unlocking Insights with Speech Analytics

A global survey of 500 key decision makers by Opus Research shows the core benefits of making the leap to an omnichannel contact center, such as uncovering actionable business insights on employee-customer interactions.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Winning Solutions to Keep Contact Center Agents Engaged

Speaker: Adam Saad - Founder & CEO, Tech Stack Advising

Somewhere in a global contact center, there is an agent who has spent the last 8 hours answering questions from disgruntled customers. On the other side of the world, another agent is conducting surveys and can’t seem to keep a caller on the line.