DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Real-Time Guidance Drives Contact Center Digital Transformation September, 2023 In 2005, Donna Fluss, founder and president of DMG Consulting LLC, published a book called The Real-Time Contact Center , which had a twofold purpose.

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TechSee

JULY 24, 2023

In the contact center world, hold time is often seen as a negative thing. However, what if hold time could be turned into a positive thing? What if hold time could be used to improve the customer experience and even help to resolve issues more quickly? This is where TechSee visual journeys can help.

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Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

It’s just the nature of the contact center industry. Or is it time to put humanity into your contact center? It’s time to put humanity into your contact center.” Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. You feel like no matter what you try, it’s not going to work.

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RapportBoost

OCTOBER 20, 2018

23 to discuss how established enterprises can turn their contact centers into profit centers by optimizing conversations, training agents and utilizing augmented intelligence. – hiring and training a dedicated and high performing live chat team. – increasing agent retention and shortening agent learning curves.

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Customer Service Life

JANUARY 7, 2021

They boast a number of benefits for contact centers handling text-based support channels like email, chat, SMS, social media, and more, including: Improved speed and accuracy when interacting with customers. Reduced time to full resolution. The fact of the matter is that all savvy contact center agents use them.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. Every time.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 16, 2021

When it comes to contact center authentication, callers overwhelmingly prefer voice biometrics to knowledge-based security questions. Reduction in Average Handle Time (AHT). The addition of passive voice biometrics reduces AHT by an average of 35 – 45 seconds. Voice biometrics reduce fraud. 50 per call.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There are a lot of smart — very smart — individuals managing and directing Call and Contact Centers today. Yet these bright, bright people still manage from time to time to do things that defy understanding. This is my top ten list of really dumb things that smart call and contact center executives do.

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NobelBiz

MAY 2, 2023

Welcome to this insightful blog post, where we discuss building a successful outbound lead generation strategy for contact centers. If an outbound campaign works with a list of 500 leads and only 50 persons answer back, the Contact Rate for that particular campaign will be 10%. And no wonder. And no wonder. Learn more here.

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Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

Over the last several months, w e have e xperienced one of the most unusual times in modern human history, and we seem to be coming out the other side. Contact centers, like most business, have had to find solutions to provide their essential service from somewhere other than densely populated offices where COVID – 19 might spread.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2017

KPIs for Managing your Contact Center . Contact centers are highly complex operating environments with a lot of moving parts and activities. In other contact centers the data is stale by the time it is received, making it essentially ineffective for helping the manager control their own destiny and performance.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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pindrop

JUNE 17, 2020

Social distancing guidelines are compelling modern contact centers to reassess traditional operating models and explore how AI, ML, and cloud technology can help facilitate a safe and sustainable future. Contact centers are high-traffic, high-contact environments. Leveraging AI in the Cloud Contact Center.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. Types of Call Center Dashboards So what types of call center dashboards are there?

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Strategic Contact

JULY 6, 2017

Contact centers must rise to the challenge of attaining efficiency and effectiveness. Traditional metrics support the drive for efficiency by measuring average handle time, labor cost, staffing, cost per contact, occupancy, and the like. Effectiveness presents more of a challenge.

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SharpenCX

MAY 26, 2020

It’s common for some business leaders to view their contact center teams as an afterthought. This isn’t helped by contact centers’ notoriously high turnover rates. Call center jobs are, too often, chalked up as entry-level roles. Starting with the Source of Quality CX — Your Contact Center Agents.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Crawl-walk-run, introducing three specific ways to improve your contact center. Enhanced IVR performance can help you and your contact center by: Discovering customer intent: Know why people are calling you to improve your entire operation and to have more and better informed contact center agents.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

With good cloud-based contact center solutions, implementing agent screen pops have never been easier. However, benefits extend to other contact center metrics as well. Average Handle Time. An effective agent screen pop can have a dramatic positive impact on average handle time (AHT).

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teleopti

JULY 1, 2019

More than likely, in addition to these questions, you might be asked to present a summary on what is driving the change in behavior along with an action plan. Let’s discuss how contact centers can address the questions above from the perspective of the WFM analyst and contact center management.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In our last post we talked about how using a “Contact Center as a Service” (CCaaS) may be a better use of resources as opposed to purchasing and maintaining contact center technology in your own data center. Explain how a contact center upgrade will improve KPI’s. Here is a quick example.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. The Best Call Center Cost Reduction Strategies. ” Techniques to optimize time.

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CCNG

MARCH 30, 2022

Here’s how it works Each time the supervisor completed a pre-determined management task, the manager would click a button, and a green light would appear on the software platform. Because the contact center manager, director, and VP could see the green dots, it was easy to see that “all the work was being completed.”

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Contact Center Customer Experience always starts with how a customer feels before knowing how a particular technology works. And the premise of how customers feel when they call your contact center starts from your IVR messaging. The IVR messaging is what customers hear when they call your contact center.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Importance of Reporting and Analytics in a Contact Center Reporting and analytics are one of the crucial components that help gain an accurate and sincere state of a contact center’s development. Presented using reports to monitor a contact center’s performance over time.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. This includes calls, emails, live chat, and social media.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

After all, what is a contact center without happy customers? But nailing down the right quality monitoring process for your business will make all the difference to your contact center. What is Call Center Quality Monitoring? The data collection and analysis involved take considerable time and effort.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

When on the phone with a customer, agents are responsible for juggling the incoming information that a customer provides while processing data presented on the screen in front of them. However, this can be difficult to do when worrying about average handle time and resolving the call quickly.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Taking the time to tag the call, log the details, update the CRM system or forward customer feedback to the relevant department provides vital information to contact center managers, chief experience officers, R&D personnel and customer journey mappers. Why agents often neglect ACW. Tips and Tricks to Boost ACW Efficiencies.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It has taken close to 20 years, but the convergence of the processing power of the cloud, interaction analytics (IA), artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and a shift in what agents are empowered to do for customers is finally making the concept of real-time contact centers a reality.

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Expivia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Call center reporting is the only way to know how your contact center is performing. From daily performance reports to identifying seasonal trends, reporting is an art form in the call center that defines the past, present, and future of your organization. What Is Call Center Reporting? Daily Summary Report.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As cloud communications companies like RingCentral and inContact have matured, the contact center world has been seeing an increasingly rapid move to the cloud. Taken together, these two movements are bringing about real change in the contact center. Here at RingCentral , many of our customers fall into that category.

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TechSee

MARCH 12, 2019

But while happy customers are vital to the success of a business, happy representatives are equally important, especially with high agent attrition rates presenting a real challenge for contact enters in 2019. Bringing visual automation to contact centers. The Value of Automation. The Power of Visual Automation.

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COPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

CSAT as an Output Metric Something we need to align on first is that CSAT is an output metric in the contact center, not an input. ” Bringing this back to the math and contact centers, your CSAT (or any output) is a dependent variable —it depends on the performance of other variables.

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Serenova

AUGUST 25, 2020

There are two constants in the contact center. Customer expectations are evolving, and contact center leaders are working to elevate the customer experience. For this reason, workforce management has become a core focus of discussion amongst leaders looking to take their contact centers to the next level.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. It’s our thing. So, of course, we’re biased.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“Average handling time (AHT) is the amount of time a contact center agent typically spends handling an interaction. It includes the total talk and hold time, as well as the wrap-up time after each call.”. How is Average Handling Time calculated?

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