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 Net Promoter Score Social Media Average Handle Time 62

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. and outline your approach to new hire training.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Culture Measurement 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. and outline your approach to new hire training.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Culture Measurement 156

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. Paul: Metrics and standards lay a solid foundation for measuring the success of your employees, but you have to be aware of how those standards impact the customer experience. Does it excite them?

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Customer Service Contact Center Hospitality Hotels 353

Calabrio

APRIL 11, 2025

Workforce Management From Onboarding to Excellence: Your Contact Center Training Guide for 2025 Jump ahead What is Contact Center Training? To drive customer loyalty and sustain success, contact centers must keep up with customers consistently rising expectations. What is Contact Center Training?

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Contact Center 2025 Call Center 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?

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint Customer Journey 52

Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

Best Practices Contact Center Management: Best Practices & Strategies for Peak Performance Share The modern contact center is no longer seen as a mere service function at the periphery of the business. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Contact Center Management Call Center Measurement 52

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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Call Center Measurement Contact Center Metrics 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. What is call center quality assurance?

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Contact Center Call Center Customer Satisfaction Metrics 52

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?

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Contact Center Culture Wireless Average Handle Time 117

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.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Care Technology 177

BlueOcean

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the outsourced call center world, we measure everything in terms of percentages: minutes and seconds, dollars and cents. 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)?

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Call Center Metrics Measurement Average Handle Time 156

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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Contact Center Customer Centricity Metrics Net Promoter Score 88

Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently. Until you start measuring customer experience , you could easily be falling behind the competition.

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Contact Center Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 88

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. However, these drastic measures are usually short term as they negatively affect CX and employee morale.

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Measurement 196

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Outsourcing Content and Ad Review to Your Contact Center. Furthermore, both types of programs have clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs) where KPIs are carefully measured and calibrated. In customer service, that looks like average handle times, first call resolution rates, and customer satisfaction scores.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Care Advertising 120

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. Measuring – and reducing – the duration of each call has long been seen as the most important way to ensure efficiency, plan headcount and reduce operational costs.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score Travel 95

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.

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Call Center Contact Center Social Media Metrics 195

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

Placing the trust of your customer in the hands of your outsourced contact center partner requires even more attention to executing personal, uninterrupted conversations and world-class customer experiences (you should talk to us if you need an outsourced contact center partner who cares equally about the customer experience).

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

Placing the trust of your customer in the hands of your outsourced contact center partner requires even more attention to executing personal, uninterrupted conversations and world-class customer experiences (you should talk to us if you need an outsourced contact center partner who cares equally about the customer experience).

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 2024 156

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Conversational analytics, also called conversational intelligence or conversational AI, is the process of analyzing natural language conversations between an organization’s customer service or contact center agents (both human and virtual) with that organization’s customers or clients. Why is Conversational Analytics Important?

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Social Media Average Handle Time Contact Center Call Recording 195

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Date: Monday, September 28, 2015 The evolution of contact center performance. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past contact centers were often viewed as a cost cente r, meaning that the primary goal of companies was to run them as efficiently as possible while still responding to customers competently.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Center 2015 81

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.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Virtual Agent Call Center 95

ViiBE Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Given these opposing demands, how can a center ensure that agents handle each call as efficiently as possible? A classic call center metric to measure this is the Average Handle Time (AHT). Why is Average Handle Time important? What is the AHT Formula? What does AHT mean in text?

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Average Handle Time Call Center Metrics Multi-Channel 52

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. These types of leading indicators measure success across the entire customer lifecycle.

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Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering? Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers?

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Customer Care Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics 156

TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contact centers are perfectly placed to predict imminent customer queries. With 40% of all calls considered “next issues” following initial contacts, NIA is now a critical strategy for reducing customer effort, reducing pressure on contact centers and increasing loyalty. NIA: The balancing metric.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Metrics Call Center 84

InMoment XI

MARCH 22, 2025

Measuring Engagement Levels to Assess Account Health While traditional static metrics like service renewals and the number of support requests submitted can offer some insight into account health, they may not provide the full picture. These are all questions CI can answer, helping account managers determine what consumers value most.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Customer Retention Touchpoint 195

Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If your contact center is like most, you probably have a robust set of guidelines that document your procedures, detail your standards, and outline how employees should handle various situations. But one thing many contact centers are missing is a remote work company policy. Measure Performance.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time 2022 Government 74

Interactions

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies have adopted new technologies in their contact centers to support a more customer-first approach. Contact centers, before this change in focus to customer experience, had a straightforward goal: to handle as many calls as possible, as quickly as possible. Traditional Contact Center KPIs.

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Contact Center Measurement Average Handle Time Touchpoint 54

Playvox

JUNE 21, 2022

The requirement to provide a better customer experience while improving productivity and controlling costs is paramount in contact centers at the best of times. Workforce management (WFM) continues to be one of the most important contact center productivity tools. Workforce Management Strategy.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Competitive Advantage Management 74

Eptica

JULY 4, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 Author: Anne-Merete Jensen - Senior Business Consultant How to reduce Average Handling Time and improve quality. You can then provide it to all of them ‘in one go’, personalized by name, saving time without impacting the service provided. Published on: July 04, 2018.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center 2018 Social Media 49

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. Total Cost Per Contact.

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Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score 146

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s what has happened in the outsourced contact center space when it comes to SaaS clients — there’s been a metamorphosis from customer service cost center to customer success revenue protection and generation center. These types of leading indicators measure success across the entire customer lifecycle.

Customer Success 156

Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 156

Playvox

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you’re a contact center professional, you’re probably feeling the pain of agent staffing shortages. This difficulty includes finding contact center agents. There are creative measures every call center can take to address agent staffing shortages. Higher queue times.

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Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Call Center 73

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 Government 74