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SYKES Ranks #1 for Vision & Go-to-Market Strategy on Hfs Research Front Office Customer Engagement Operations Report

Sykes

While traditional contact centers continued to score well in terms of execution, this year’s report noted a significant difference in the results for the innovation categories, with information technology (IT) service providers and consultancies leading the pack. Its Americas and EMEA regions primarily provide customer?engagement

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SYKES Names Symphony Ventures Co-Founder Ian Barkin Its New CSO/CMO

Sykes

He’s held leadership positions within consulting and BPO industries and has led innovation initiatives across our industry. engagement solutions and services with an emphasis on inbound multichannel demand generation, customer service and technical support to its clients’ customers. About Symphony Ventures.

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NEC and Frank Viola - "Raising a Family" - My Q&A on Frank's Retirement

Jon Arnold

This group provided our sales group both sales and technical support through high level presentations, complex configurations, responding to RFP’s, etc. I was also overseeing the Consultant Program. In ’93, Bob Talty and I created the Advantage Invitational Executive Conference and NEC’s Consultant Symposium.

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Top 51 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Netomi

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. Arie is a Customer Insight, Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Innovation Independent Consultant. Arie Goldshlager.

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Customer Support Predictions for 2016

Kayako

We looked back with our best posts from the customer support community in 2015, now we’re looking forward with predictions for 2016. We’ve asked support pros from Kayako and beyond what they think the biggest trends in customer support will be in the next 12 months. Sukhpreet Anand , Technical Support Consultant.

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Contact Center Technologies 2017: find out what 23 experts say

RichCall

Blair Pleasant , analyst and consultant about Unified Communications. The contact centre will support this by providing hints, tips, education and technical support. In fact this number increased from 67% in 2012 to 84% in 2015. have bots that provide health related consultations based on images and symptoms.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

According to Walker , a customer intelligence consulting firm, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B. Within a couple of months, we reduced our support overheard by 80% while significantly improving our agents’ response time.