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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Escalating from a digital channel to voice. Improving Average Handle Time (AHT).

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

Callminer

Our solution, VIA Contact Centre, is actually an adapted form of Skype for Business that offers added benefits to the contact center like call recording, smart agent selection, and interactive voice response – the latter is particularly useful as it negates the need for switchboards entirely. Errors happen.

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Comparing and Purchasing Call Monitoring Software: 20 Experts Reveal the Biggest Mistakes Companies Make (and How to Avoid Them)

Callminer

He has held senior positions as editor and columnist of a bilingual edition of TIME magazine, authored a dozen books and served as a Chinese-to-English translator for clients including the Taipei Times, The China Post, Acer Inc. Craig joined Software Advice in 2013 after two years as CMO and service strategist for the U.S.

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What is an Inbound Call Center? (3 Skills the Best Ones Have!)

Babelforce

Average Handling Time (AHT). The average duration of a customer interaction. Conversational IVR. Conversational IVR is shaping up to be one of the biggest customer service developments of the decade. In a nutshell, conversational IVR brings Alexa-style voice interaction to IVR systems.