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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

Redundancy strategies today focus mainly on applications and equipment – not personnel – so when the pandemic hit, contact centers were left unshielded from what was to come, especially outsource providers. So how can companies prepare for what might be the new normal of virtual contact support?

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Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center

Outsource Consultants

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. If you’re not using AI in the form of bots, virtual agents, or other methods, you’re behind the curve.

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Giving Thanks for Operational Peace: The Unseen Heroes in BPO During the Holidays

Outsource Consultants

Specialization and Innovation: A New Era of Customer Support Gone are the days when outsourced call centers merely answered calls. Customers respond positively when the agent on the other end of the call gets their local context. With consultancies like Outsource Consultants, you have options to enhance your BPO strategies.

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2020 Contact Center Retrospective

DMG Consulting

However, the key to success remains being able to connect with a live agent, when necessary. . Automation solutions – Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), virtual assistants (VAs), robotic process automation (RPA) and workflow have emerged as essential enablers for enterprises. Learn more at www.dmgconsult.com.

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4 Ways Companies Benefit from Using IVR Services

Outsource Consultants

With these challenges in mind, Faris suggests that the future of IVR lies within a hybrid of AI bot technology and live, human agents. Both of these tools will serve as virtual agents for human call center agents to help make them more efficient and improve their service capabilities. Need IVR services? We can help!

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The Benefits of Call Centers with Remote Agents

Outsource Consultants

In trend #2, Greenberg writes, “Call centers offering access to virtual agents have solved many issues, from cutting out commute time to offering radically flexible schedules and self-directed management of their independent businesses rather than heavy-handed employee supervision. Need a remote agent call center? We can help!

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Step 5 of 5: AI Self-Service Without Compromise – Human-Centric Design from a Team of CX Experts

SmartAction

Those functional areas are: CX Consultant – maps the business need to a business case for conversational AI. CX Consultant. The CX Consultant brings together key stakeholders to understand the business case – the problem that needs to be solved and what it would mean to the business to solve it. Solutions Expert.