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Why AHTs Still Matter and 5 Ways to Improve Them

CSM Magazine

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. So, is Average Handle Time (AHT) still a relevant metric and what does it mean for contact centres today?

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Call Center optimization: Tools and best practices to increase performance

NobelBiz

Quality of Service: Call Center Quality Management (QM) Quality management (QM) in call centers focuses on ensuring that every customer interaction meets a set standard of service. One of the primary advantages of CRM integration with contact center technology is call flow management.

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Don’t jump the Gen AI gun to realise returns on AI investments

Connect

The technology can also boost agent productivity with automation, real-time guidance, and performance coaching and enhance operational efficiency by reducing costs, optimising resources, and enabling data-driven decisions.

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5 Applications to Boost Contact Center Performance in a Tough Economy

DMG Consulting

Analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) (a.k.a. automated quality management). This application can fully or partially automate the quality management process and allow companies to evaluate up to 100 percent of interactions cost-effectively. After-contact wrap-up and summarization.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2023 – 2024 Real-Time Guidance Productand Market Report

DMG Consulting

Productivity increases when agents have on-the-fly access to the right information to handle customer interactions, reducing holds, transfers and average handle time. It explores product pricing and offers implementation best practices to help users realize a rapid and strong return on their investment.

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AI + IA = Great CX

DMG Consulting

Other AI-based tools deliver real-time feedback and guidance to agents and supervisors, enabling them to enhance their performance while building agent engagement and increase productivity by reducing average handle time. Analytics-enabled quality management. Like what you’re reading?

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Improve call center customer experience

Global Response

Quantitative data could include average time in queue, average handle time, transfer rate, speed of answer and so on. Factors like shorter queue times, reduced average handle times and low transfer rates can improve this score and reduce customer effort.