CCNG

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I went to lunch with a friend who is a divorce attorney here in Oklahoma City. In the middle of lunch his wife called to blame him for leaving the pool gate open. He calmly apologized to her and promised to not do it again. He hung up and said to me, “I’m a 1000% sure, she left the gate open.” I said “why did you not correct her?” He replied “You can be right or you can be married, you can’t have both” They have been married for 27 years.

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Connect

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Technology-enabled transformation is a growing trend as operators look to access the latest technologies shaping the contact centre of the future , with artificial intelligence (AI) a key strategic focus. By Martin Cross , Chief Strategy Officer at Connect. As AI adoption in the contact centre gathers momentum for its ability to unlock cost and operational efficiencies and improve customer service by pre-empting customer needs, automating customer interactions, and streamlining the customer expe

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AnomalySquared

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As we approach the dawn of 2024, businesses are gearing up for a new chapter filled with opportunities and challenges. In this rapidly evolving landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for sustained success. One strategic move that can significantly impact your business's efficiency and customer satisfaction is outsourcing your call center operations.

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MiaRec

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Every contact center managers has their tried and true method of evaluating calls they have developed over the years. For me, it was my trusted Excel spreadsheet I had developed to evaluate my agent's performance. So I get it if trading in the trusted spreadsheet or other familiar method you are using for an AI-based QM solution that automatically scores and evaluates agent performance seems scary.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Top Takeaways: The key to transforming companies into customer-centric organizations lies in adopting a customer experience mindset. When leaders prioritize the customer experience, it influences the entire company culture. Empowering employees to take positive actions that benefit customers can significantly impact team morale and reinforce the company’s customer-centric goals.

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Blueship Call Center

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During its early stages, business process outsourcing (BPO) has become a well-recognised method utilised by organisations across several industrial sectors. The idea of outsourcing first surfaced as a way to relieve businesses of the burden of handling non-core operations, which may include everything from payroll and human resources to finance and accounting.

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ChaseData

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trending news and helpful information from the DialedIn Call Center Software team.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At SmartAction, we believe in the power of change. It’s not just about adapting to the evolving market; it’s about leading the charge. Today, we are excited to share with you a significant milestone in our journey — the launch of our brand refresh. This isn’t merely a change in our logo or colors; it’s a reflection of our growth, our learning, and our renewed commitment to delivering outstanding AI-powered customer service solutions.

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NobelBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Call flows play a vital role in seamlessly directing customer calls to the right place within your organization. They act as pathways that guide calls from the very beginning to a successful resolution, ensuring a seamless and efficient customer experience. Effective call flow management has the potential to revolutionize customer service, sales, and overall business operations.

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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a meeting with a long-time client, I learned how pleased they were with their repeat business, which they saw as loyal customers coming back for more. However, when they showed me the repeat business stats, what I saw wasn’t loyalty; it was inertia. I knew these customers would leave my client when the competition had a good enough offer. Now, some of you might be scratching your heads, wondering what I am talking about.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Customer service and customer experience (CX) are more than what happens after the sale. It’s not just a department to call when there is a problem. It actually begins long before a customer ever makes a purchase. Then, there’s the experience during the sales process and what happens after the sale, which could include a typical customer support call and more.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Vodafone is transitioning from a telecommunications company (telco) to a technology company (TechCo) by 2025, with objectives of innovating faster, reducing costs, improving security, and simplifying operations. Thousands of engineers are being onboarded to contribute to this transition. By 2025, Vodafone plans to have 50% of its global workforce actively involved in software development, with an objective to deliver 60% of digital services in-house.

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The collaboration between Cisco and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region—combining each company’s market leading strengths—continues to deliver impressive out… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Integrity Solutions

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What is cold calling and what does it look like in the current sales world? Your mindset may actually be the key to success. If you want to hear salespeople groan, mention cold calling. It’s true that cold calling can be hard, grinding-it-out work, and the rewards aren’t instant. But sales prospecting is the bread-and-butter, core activity that leads to sales growth and success — and cold calling is one of the most effective prospecting strategies available.

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MiaRec

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While almost all insurance companies have adopted some form of "traditional" AI and have felt somewhat let down by the lack of transformative change that was promised in the past, there is no doubt that Generative AI has kicked off a tidal shift across the industry that will far surpass previous expectations.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Machine learning (ML) models do not operate in isolation. To deliver value, they must integrate into existing production systems and infrastructure, which necessitates considering the entire ML lifecycle during design and development. ML operations, known as MLOps, focus on streamlining, automating, and monitoring ML models throughout their lifecycle.

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace and predictions about coming trends are always a topic of debate – what’s real, what’s hype.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Bill Quiseng

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In anticipation of celebrating the holidays with my family and friends, I will not be publishing my posts until after the New Year. So, for now, as you move onward and upward in the New Year, I wish all of you, your family, and your friends GREAT health, happiness, success, and prosperity. May your Holiday Celebration and New Year be GREAT out there!

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Helpware

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For all market players, major and minor, Internet marketing is a necessity. Nonetheless, finding and supporting a full-time team is usually ineffective. It entails vast operating expenses and distracts from your primary business functions.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The launch of ChatGPT and rise in popularity of generative AI have captured the imagination of customers who are curious about how they can use this technology to create new products and services on AWS, such as enterprise chatbots, which are more conversational. This post shows you how you can create a web UI, which we call Chat Studio, to start a conversation and interact with foundation models available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart such as Llama 2, Stable Diffusion, and other models availabl

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In April 2023 , we rebranded our risk-based vulnerability management solution, Kenna.VM, to Cisco Vulnerability Management. Today, we are excited to share another milestone in our journey.

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Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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LiveVox

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Is a IT Talent Crunch preventing your contact center from keeping up with the latest digital technology initiatives? You’re not alone. This issue is expected to persist for the foreseeable future, severely hampering business operations across various sectors. According to Gartner, CIOs are losing tech talent faster than they can hire, particularly in areas like […] The post How to Address the IT Talent Crunch in Your Organization appeared first on LiveVox.

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kommunicate

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last Updated on December 11, 2023 Generative AI has been all the rage ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT came into the picture more than a year ago. There has been a breakout number of Generative AI tools that have taken the world by storm. It is doing everything from creating images to video editing, writing poems, [.] The post How 4 Companies Transformed with Generative AI Adoption appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Large language models (or LLMs) have become a topic of daily conversations. Their quick adoption is evident by the amount of time required to reach a 100 million users, which has gone from “4.5yrs by facebook” to an all-time low of mere “2 months by ChatGPT.” A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction.

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The world of cybersecurity never stops changing. Every day bad actors grow bolder and more devious as they try to break your security, steal your data, and offer it back to you for ransom.

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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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ConvergeOne

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whenever we talk to insurers, whether boardroom CEOs or small-time independent brokers, the buzz is all about major disruptions hitting the industry. Everyone is chiming in about telematics, automated cars, Insuretech, “insurance as a service” platforms, you name it. Many are plain scared their business lines are not built for long-term success, and there’s some legitimacy to this fear.

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SQM Group

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This blog will compare these three tools and demonstrate how each contributes to optimizing performance and elevating overall efficiency.

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AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Text-to-image generation is a rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence with applications in a variety of areas, such as media and entertainment, gaming, ecommerce product visualization, advertising and marketing, architectural design and visualization, artistic creations, and medical imaging. Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image model that empowers you to create high-quality images within seconds.

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