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Contact Center 2020: Yesterday and Today

Contact Center Pipeline

In 2016, I spoke at a customer conference and the topic was, “Contact Center 2020.” At the time, 2020 seemed like it was forever away, and I had carte blanche to forecast whatever I wanted to about the potential state of the contact center in 2020. I opened the session with a brief clip from […].

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Guest Post: How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Progression of Contact Centres

ShepHyken

Contact centres have been at the forefront of advancements in customer-facing communication technology. They were the playground for breakthrough legacy technologies such as call routing and interactive voice response (IVR), always in the interest of providing a better, more streamlined customer service model.

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Six Reasons to Take Another Look at IVR

CSM Magazine

Rob Crutchington at Encoded , discusses the rise of self-service payments and why it is time to take another look at Interactive Voice Response (IVR) in contact centres to help increase the number of successful transactions, boost agent performance and improve the customer experience (CX). Cash is no longer King.

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2020 Contact Center Investment Priorities

DMG Consulting

2020 Contact Center Investment Priorities. 2020 is looking to be an outstanding year for contact center investments. The findings for the three questions were extremely positive and reflect the very upbeat attitude of enterprise executive and contact center leaders toward new technology investments. See Figure 1. .

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IVR systems are dead. It’s time to consider a technology that delivers.

Interactions

Sending your customer through mazes to try to find an answer or having to sift through menu options on an IVR can create negative impressions that cause your customer to go elsewhere. According to Gartner, by 2020, approximately 86% of a customer’s relationship with a company will occur without the customer interacting with a human.

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How to Prepare Your Call Center for Shopping Season 2020

Fonolo

Review your IVR system. If you haven’t reviewed your IVR system lately, you should do it before the holiday season picks up. Here are a few things to keep in mind when evaluating and adjusting your IVR: Think from the customer perspective. The State of the Contact Center 2020. Get call-back technology.

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3 Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence in Your Call Center

Fonolo

It’s a hot topic, and many call center managers want to know what this rapidly evolving technology will mean for their organizations. For some, there’s nothing to see but opportunity, and they want to discover everything they can about AI technology for their contact center. . There are so many questions — and some concerns, too.