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How to Recession-Proof Your Contact Center, According to 360+ Executives

Balto

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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What is Call Center Average Wait Time and 3 Ways to Reduce It

Talkdesk

Knowing how long it takes to answer customer calls can help you answer that question, and Average Wait Time has become a contact center key performance indicator for just that reason. AWT can be measured globally across the contact center, by ring group, agent or phone number.

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IVR testing, the vanguard in automated call quality issue resolution

Spearline

Co-founder, Russ Leatherman provided his oft parodied voice for the well known automated movie-listing and information service in 1989 and while, sadly, consigned to history in 2014, the central premise of Moviefone’s automation technology survives to this day. . Nowadays, the IVR system is an integral part of the daily customer journey.

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Vonage Acquires NewVoiceMedia – What Does It Mean?

Fonolo

started soon after CEO Alan Masarek arrived in 2014.”. This industry is moving fast. Call Center 101: The Golden Rules of SLAs. What’s Inside: SLAs in Nutshell; How to Set a Winning Service Level; Meeting the Industry Standard of Service Level; Plus so Much More! The Twilio Angle.

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Conversations with Clients: Ding Yi (Allen), Ant Financial, Part I

COPC

the cloud and AI) has made everything possible, and brought the opportunity for a re-establishment of industry standards.”. For instance, accurate forecasting is the key to hiring, scheduling and real-time management in contact centres, as it helps guarantee customer access and avoids the unnecessary costs related to overstaffing.

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Conversations with Clients: Ding Yi, Ant Financial, Part I

COPC

the cloud and AI) has made everything possible, and brought the opportunity for a re-establishment of industry standards.”. For instance, accurate forecasting is the key to hiring, scheduling and real-time management in contact centres, as it helps guarantee customer access and avoids the unnecessary costs related to overstaffing.

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Client Interview Series: Ding Yi at Ant Financial

COPC

re-establishment of industry standards.”. For instance, accurate forecasting is the key to hiring, scheduling and real-time management in contact centres, as it helps guarantee customer access and avoids the unnecessary costs related to overstaffing. “… the technology revolution (e.g.,