InMoment XI

APRIL 24, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, where patient care is paramount, the role of healthcare contact centers has emerged as a vital component in ensuring seamless communication and efficient service delivery. What is a Healthcare Contact Center? Why are Healthcare Contact Centers Important?

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Contact Center Healthcare Insurance Social Media 195

CX Accelerator

MARCH 16, 2020

Written by Jeremy Watkin and Community Dear contact center agent: What if I told you that if you come to work for us you can do the exact same job as you’re doing now but we’ll instead call you a customer service hero, guru, rockstar, or ninja? Are you sold?

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Contact Center Reference Communication Customer Service 182

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? For most companies, this scenario remains unrealized potential.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Social Media Apparel 195

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The contact center SOW is the framework for your relationship. TL;DR: When outsourcing your company’s customer service, you can’t solely rely on an unwritten set of rules or assumptions. TL;DR: When outsourcing your company’s customer service, you can’t solely rely on an unwritten set of rules or assumptions. The Basics.

Contact Center 192

Contact Center Automotive Metrics Roadmap 192

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A customer experience manager determines, implements, and refines the customer experience strategy to ensure that all customer interactions with a company are seamless, satisfying, and aligned with the organizations values. Otherwise, your information silos stay intact and your customer journey remains fragmented.

Customer Experience Management 195

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management ROI 195

Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction. According to ICMI , contact centers have a fairly high turnover rate of 33%.

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Contact Center Engagement Omnichannel 2019 148

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

BlueOcean

AUGUST 9, 2021

Contact center technologies are certainly in the mix of acceleration. In fact, many recent developments promise to reshape the landscape of customer service completely. The most recent publication from Ryan Strategic Advisory surveyed contact center leaders about the state of the industry. billion by 2024.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Technology 2024 Healthcare 156

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are CX leaders who focus primarily on customer insights, like Voice of the Customer programs. And there are CX teams dedicated to customer journey design and improvements. There are CX leaders who have titles like Customer Success Manager and Contact Center Supervisor. But it’s not the only way.

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2021 Social Media Contact Center Customer Journey Mapping 367

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. Also, 88% of customers say that a good customer service experience is what makes them more likely to make another purchase from the brand.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint Customer Journey 52

Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

Contact Center AI Generative AI in Contact Centers: The Tech and Use Cases Driving a Revolution in Customer Service Share The contact center landscape is undergoing a dramatic shiftone driven by the adoption and innovation of AI. The speed of the shift has been remarkablebut its also far from over.

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Contact Center Customer Service Virtual Agent 2025 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. Missing key parts of the customer journey?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Call Center Customer Satisfaction Metrics 52

BlueOcean

APRIL 1, 2025

Make sure that your contact center partner has the appropriate security certifications and compliances in place, like SOC 2. This becomes even more critical with AI because you’re not just entrusting customer data to humans but to technology that must be configured and constrained appropriately.

Customers 156

Customers Effort Score Airlines Customer Journey 156

eglobalis

MARCH 30, 2025

financial institution, realized that surveying only a handful of customers left them in the dark about most interactions. In 2021 they embraced AI-based speech analytics to analyse every single call in their contact center. This 100% coverage of customer interactions revealed issues and successes that random surveys missed.

Banking 317

Banking NPS B2B Social Media 317

Upstream Works

AUGUST 11, 2020

The difference between good and excellent contact center CX is providing customers with a human touch. The key to excellent contact center CX is to create meaningful human connections between the business and its employees. And, it’s this human connection that will drive customer loyalty.

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Contact Center Interaction Loyalty Connections 134

BlueOcean

MARCH 3, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, to discuss how partnerships with service suppliers like outsourced contact centers can impact your business objectives. As a sourcing professional, I have to ensure that our company culture is reflected in the RFP and also that the document is customized to the specific industry in which were sourcing.

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Insights Contact Center Culture Customer Journey Mapping 156

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The highest performing companies will ensure these disciplines coexist, transforming their contact centers (and much of their business) to maximize their business outcomes. Breaking Down the Total Experience Strategy CX The customer experience is one of the elements we are most passionate about here at Blue Ocean. (If

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Multi-Channel Customer Care Touchpoint 156

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

Calabrio

MARCH 4, 2025

Workforce Management 2025 Guide to the Omnichannel Contact Center: How to Drive Success with the Right Software, Strategy, and Solutions Share Calling, email, texting, instant messaging, social mediathe communication channels available to us today can seem almost endless. Table of Contents What Is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Contact Center Omnichannel 2025 Touchpoint 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 17, 2024

Are Customer Journey Maps Really Necessary? She was defeated, and realized she made a misstep in trying to get resources for a customer journey mapping initiative. The C-Suite heard her desire to understand customers better, but they couldn’t see HOW that exercise would benefit the company, exactly. They love us.

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Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Information Roadmap 143

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Customers have distinct preferences for how they interact with your organization, making it tricky to know the best places to focus your customer experience efforts. When it comes to building those customer journey maps… well, some things are easier said than done. What is a Customer Journey Map?

Customer Journey Mapping 162

Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Multi-Channel Roadmap 162

GetFeedback

JANUARY 6, 2020

After Voice of the Customer (VoC) , nothing is more closely associated with Customer Experience Management (CXM) than a customer journey map (CJM). . On the selling (vendor) side, there are salespeople, customer support reps, accounting personnel, manufacturing, accounting, legal, and more. About the guest author.

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Customer Journey Mapping B2C B2B Customer Journey 195

Talkdesk

JULY 1, 2020

Spikes in customer interaction volume: With economic and regulatory conditions in a state of flux, many of the variables that impact customers can change quickly and unexpectedly. Contact centers are experiencing a spike in inbound and outbound interaction volume that staff may not be equipped to handle over the phone.

Contact Center 118

Contact Center Omnichannel Multi-Channel Social Media 118

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s one of the most useful tools you have in your customer experience toolbox at this moment. If you don’t have a journey map, now is a terrific time to create one. Why Journey Maps Matter Now More Than Ever. Customer Journey Maps are a great resource, especially in times of change like these.

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Customer Journey Mapping Workshop Customer Journey Touchpoint 374

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Align your feedback journey with your overall customer journey. Feedback is often treated as if it’s a separate and distinct experience from the customer’s journey. Customer journey maps, for example, don’t often include feedback requests as actual touchpoints. But that’s exactly what they are.

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Feedback Net Promoter Score Customer Journey Customer Journey Mapping 367

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

He shares how you can align your customer’s journey with their brand expectations. The customer journey is essential to any company’s success. And in today’s digital age, customer service is now more important than ever before. What do customers expect from contact centers? .

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Customer Journey Brands Sales Contact Center 127

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Reducing efforts will only begin when organizations understand customer journeys and personas.”. Customer Contact Week’s report is filled with great tips and facts to help you create better experiences. We’ve been talking about ways to reduce customer effort for a while now. Get your copy here!

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2019 Contact Center Customer Journey 2018 236

CloudCherry

AUGUST 21, 2018

In the contact center, the queue is king. We get our happiness rankings from surveys sent out after our customer interactions in the queue. As customers become more and more savvy, and our products become more technical and nuanced, shouldn’t we, too, be trying to level up our game and dethrone the king?

Customer Journey 150

Customer Journey Document Customers Customer Retention 150

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 22, 2021

Traditional business education and even standard business plans don’t include much focus on the customer’s journey beyond the basics of getting the sale and delivering a product or service. Even customer journey maps can neglect key phases of the customer experience. Review milestones along the customer journey.

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Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey E-support Customers 297

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

CS focuses on helping customers solve problems or answer questions, while CX encompasses every interaction a customer has with your companywhether its browsing your website, using your product, or contacting support. And with the advent of AI agents, the entire customer experience journey is being radically changed.

Customer Service 118

Customer Service Touchpoint E Commerce E-support 118

UJET

JUNE 4, 2021

Ready to modernize your own contact center? But for businesses that rely on customer service and experience as a competitive advantage, COVID-19 has underscored the need for digital transformation frameworks that can definitively help these complex changes succeed. The concept of digital transformation isn’t new.

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Contact Center Roadmap Leadership Competitive Advantage 121

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 20, 2021

We need to do better, and we can — by considering gathering customer feedback as part of the overall customer journey. This means respecting the customer enough to carefully consider, design and plan for what, how, and where we listen for feedback. A Customer Listening Assessment Can Help.

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Social Media Customer Journey Contact Center Feedback 361

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If agents are frustrated, we can only imagine that the customers they’re speaking with are too. Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership.

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Contact Center Customer Care Average Handle Time Consumers 310

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Why Channel Deflection is Critical to ROI-Fueled CX Every call in your contact center represents a breakdown in your customer journey. Customers don’t want to call; they want quick and easy solutions. The True Cost of Contact Centers The true cost of relying on traditional contact centers is staggering.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center ROI Telecommunications 195

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To gain a deeper understanding of the Voice of the Customer, brands must gather and integrate customer experience data from multiple sources, including reviews, contact center calls and chats, social, surveys, customer interactions, agent performance, operational metrics, and more.

Insights 195

Insights 2024 Feedback Contact Center 195

TechSee

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For instance, customer satisfaction/retention-related initiatives that demonstrate a clear impact on retention rates, or self-service initiatives that drive a reduction in operational costs, or engagement/customer journey initiatives that clearly correlate with increased sales. Infrastructure: Accelerated digital transformation.

Call Center 182

Call Center 2019 Contact Center Customer Experience 182

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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Metrics 2019 Customer Care Measurement 219