Fonolo

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is especially true for contact center and customer service professionals – after all, customer behavior is constantly shifting, and it’s critical for businesses to meet their expectations. Fortunately, e-learning has made call center management courses more accessible than ever. COPC: Call Center Consulting Training.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

AI is the Tailwind for 2024 Contact Center Technology Investments On an annual basis, DMG Consulting conducts a worldwide survey of enterprise, customer experience (CX), contact center, and customer service executives and managers to ask about their top business priorities and technology investment plans for the following year.

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8x8

MAY 23, 2018

But technology will only get you so far in your quest to provide great customer service. Acknowledging the importance of pairing world-class software with world-class practices will help you optimize your customer service practice. Here are the top 3 ways to optimize your customer service strategy: 1.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Thank you for your interest in DMG Consulting’s publications. Should Customer Service be a Sales Channel? There are many checks and balances in contact centers to ensure that renegade agents do not negatively impact customers or a company’s brand. Donna Fluss is president of DMG Consulting LLC.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 29, 2017

Should Customer Service be a Sales Channel? . This is a case where one poorly managed organization is going to hurt an industry, as cross-selling is a positive activity when it is managed properly. Some of the recordings are reviewed by a quality management team who evaluate, score and coach agents on their performance.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Across her 18 year career in the contact center industry, she has worked with various WFOs and BPOs in addition to assuming other roles such as account director, consultant, marketing manager, and quality manager.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is ideal for service organizations due to its ability to create content in response to inquiries. Contact center and customer service technology vendors are applying generative AI to enhance their solutions, speed up implementation, and improve the accuracy of their findings. and customer service organizations.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While IA should not be owned by or the sole responsibility of the contact center or customer service department, its findings ought to be applied to these customer-facing departments, just as they are to other functions throughout an enterprise.

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SharpenCX

MARCH 25, 2021

As customer service leaders continue to embrace the life where agents can work from where they’re most comfortable, new challenges catapult to the top of priority lists. Gartner research shows in two years, nearly nine in 10 leaders think 20-80% of the customer service workforce will still work from home.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Calabrio , the customer experience intelligence company, features perfect customer satisfaction scores and the number one spot in three of four categories in the 2020-2021 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report from DMG Consulting LLC. View the DMG 2020-2021 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report here.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Systems in which they plan to invest are: intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs), bots, robotic process automation (RPA), analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), self-service, WFM and more. Final Thoughts. Learn more at www.dmgconsult.com. Subscribe to the Free DMG Newsletter. First Name * Last Name Email Address *.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Contact center quality assurance (QA, also known as quality management (QM)), has been around for over 40 years. AQA will provide substantial benefits to contact centers, but this solution should also become an essential contributor to the customer journey analysis process. It’s Time to Replace Traditional QA.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

First Up: Shep’s opening monologue takes a look at two companies that truly understand the customer experience. First is Olark, a live chat software company, that chose not to hire a person dedicated to handling customer service. Customer service and customer experience are the new marketing.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Janeen Ansell is the Operations Manager at TeleDirect , a leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) with a multi-tier menu of solutions for a variety of commerce requirements. She leads a team of highly engaged Team Leaders, Trainers, and Supervisors who share her commitment to exceptional customer service. Mihai Corbuleac.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 13, 2022

While IA should not be owned by or the sole responsibility of the contact center or customer service department, its findings ought to be applied to these customer-facing departments, just as they are to other functions throughout an enterprise.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 8, 2021

DMG expects analytics-enabled quality management (AQM) to be one of the “next big things” in the IA market. Calls remain the primary use for IA solutions, but more organizations are starting to apply IA to text-based interactions, which is a necessity now that digital customer service has grown in importance.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Kris McKenzie, SVP, Sales, International at Calabrio commented, “Our focus on cloud-first solutions has resonated well with our customers’ need to accelerate their digital transformation and move their contact centres to the cloud in order to maintain business continuity. About Calabrio.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are essentially three core capabilities in these real-time solutions: RTG, real-time coaching, and analytics-enabled quality management (AQM). These solutions have proven to be effective and are expected to become a core component of the contact center and customer service toolset within the next few years.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2021

This is particularly important now that service quality is one of the primary (and sometimes only) differentiator between what most consumers consider to be commoditized products and services. It’s time for enterprises to transform their perspective about customer service. Final Thoughts.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2021

After the pandemic is over, are you going to have some/all contact center/customer service employees work from home? of survey respondents indicated the importance of prioritizing the customer experience. The fifth-place investment priority, analytics-enabled quality management (AQM), was cited in 27.2%

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is critical to support accurate forecasting and scheduling, and quality management programs to support optimal customer experiences. In 2022, customer engagement through social channels, such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, will become the preferred customer service channel over traditional phone, email, and live chat.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Top 51 Customer Service Leaders and CX Influencers (Editor’s Choice): Adam Toporek.

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Call Design

AUGUST 20, 2019

“The magnitude of this change will allow for Call Design to continue its aggressive growth in the region and continually support Aspect Software in selling its best-of-breed solutions to contact centres across omnichannel interaction management and world-class workforce optimisation solutions.”. “As

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Call Design

AUGUST 20, 2019

“The magnitude of this change will allow for Call Design to continue its aggressive growth in the region and continually support Aspect Software in selling its best-of-breed solutions to contact centres across omnichannel interaction management and world-class workforce optimisation solutions.”. “As

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A better approach is to encourage closer collaboration between contact centre and quality teams, utilising automated Quality Management (QM) tools to highlight AHT anomalies and uncover trends that often skew the metric. About the Author Graeme Meikle is a Senior Workforce Management Consultant at Calabrio.

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 16, 2017

This week’s guest post is from Teri Yanovitch , author of Unleashing Excellence – The Complete Guide to Ultimate Customer Service. When I shared my appreciation for his thoughtfulness, he said “I always try to leave a customer’s home looking better than what it was when I came”. Filed under: Customer Service.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

These include modifications to fundamental business activities—how products and services are distributed, and how and by whom customer service is delivered. Companies must continue to prioritize the customer experience (CX) as they reimagine customer journeys.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Unless you’ve been under a proverbial rock, you’ve heard and seen a massive amount of change in customer service — particularly in the past year. Many are pronouncing that there is no greater revolution in customer care than what’s happening right now. An IVR can save companies millions of dollars. per minute.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

How to improve the customer experience in your call center. When it comes to customer service, quality is the name of the game. Did you know that 70% of customers will spend more money with a company if they have a good customer experience?

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DMG Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

If the CCaaS solution has its own unified-communication-as-a-service (UCaaS) and video capabilities, it is even more compelling, as it is likely to address enterprises’ expanding needs for a communications platform. The post The Cloud Contact Center Land Grab Is On appeared first on DMG Consulting.

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Verint

AUGUST 31, 2017

CRMXchange Webinar: What Is the Future of Customer Service? Verint’s Kelly Koelliker, director, global solutions marketing, will present “What Is the Future of Customer Service?” Whether it is chatbots, voice recognition, the Internet of Things or the cloud, the future of customer service is bright.

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NobelBiz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A lower ATT typically indicates quicker issue resolution and streamlined customer service. However, excessively low ATTs can be problematic, potentially suggesting agents are rushing through calls, sacrificing quality for speed. Brad Butler, Contact Center Software Consultant @NobelBiz How is Talk Time Measured?

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Avaya

AUGUST 24, 2016

Common recently became a beta user of Avaya Workforce Optimization Select , an easy-to-implement, easy-to-use, security-oriented solution that gives contact center managers and representatives access to scalable and flexible tools. Tools include recording, quality management, call monitoring, coaching, e-learning, and full reporting services.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This means higher sales rates, larger collections and much improved customer service. DMG Consulting LLC is a leading independent research, advisory and consulting firm specializing in unified communications, contact centers, back-office and real-time analytics. But there is so much more going on today.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Thank you for your interest in DMG Consulting’s publications. The challenge is to come up with the right set of KPIs for each contact center constituency – executives, director/vice president, supervisors, agents, quality management (QM) managers, trainers and workforce managers. Monthly DMG Newsletter.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

At the core application level, recording solutions are transitioning from hardware-based recorders to software-based solutions, to expand system capacity and eliminate the need to pay for and manage a large number of servers. Workforce management (WFM) solutions are being enhanced to better support back offices and branches.

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Serenova

JANUARY 7, 2020

More than a decade ago, Serenova realized technology didn’t exist that could deliver immediate, consistent and exceptional service for brands. Today, that solution unifies everything from customer engagement to quality management to analytics. These can be subscription-based or onetime engagements to suit the customer.

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