At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The question was, “What’s keeping you up at night when you think about your contact center in 2017 and beyond.”. Clearly, employee engagement is of paramount importance to an overwhelming majority of contact center executives today. MORE

No, it’s the top contact center trends to watch for in 2019. As the sun sets on 2018, contact center superheroes should watch for the plots, characters, and villains within them. As always, we keep watch of trends and issues pertinent to contact centers, continuously shifting due to technological advancements; mergers and acquisitions in the SaaS space; the realigning of customer service and experience priorities on the part of brands; and more. MORE

Teleopti, the global leader in Workforce Management software for contact centres, today announced their repeat inclusion together with ZOOM International, in the newly published “Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Workforce Optimization” report, by Jim Davies and published 20 November 2013 MORE

Teleopti, weltweit führender Anbieter von Workforce Management-Software für Contact Center Lösungen, gibt seine Aufnahme in den Gartner Magic Quadrant für Contact Center Workforce Optimization 2012 bekannt. Teleopti WFM ist in 25 Sprachen verfügbar und kann über ein weltweites Reseller-Netzwerk sowohl als cloud-basierter Service wie auch als Vor-Ort-Installation bereitgestellt werden MORE

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 15th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share. 5/23/2018. New-gen solutions are the future of this mature sector. MORE

Contact Centers are measured along several dimensions. At the operational level, metrics such as average time in queue, cost per call, and first call resolution rate are often front and center. Contact Center Workforce Management MORE

What’s New in the World of Contact Center WFM. With so much going on in the world and many “fires” to put out, it’s tough to think about the future of our contact centers. But in case you want a break from the realities of COVID-19 and the havoc it is causing around the world, I am going to share some of my thoughts about the future of contact center workforce management (WFM). 3/30/2020. By Donna Fluss. MORE

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Management Product and Market Report. 3/21/2017. MORE

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No doubt contact center executives have a great deal to occupy their thoughts day and night. Contact Centers Workforce Optimization Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience Analytics operational visibility, Mobile customer engagement optimization Personalization contact center workforce optimization operational efficiency process improvement Adaptive IVR IVR Contact Solutions customer loyalty customer engagement contact center MORE

It also applies to workforce managers. Workforce managers determine how many staff are assigned to a shift and which employee takes which specific shift. So when it comes to creating shift plans, workforce managers have a big responsibility. Workforce Management MORE

Contact Centers Workforce Management Workforce Optimization Customer Service Customer Experience customer engagement optimization Customer journeys Call Centers contact center workforce optimization Technology Adaptive IVR IVR customer engagementHow can organizations start to think more strategically in the New Year about maximizing their technology investments? MORE

If you’re a contact center manager, you might justifiably worry about having to cut your staff. What you notice, however, is that other companies are investing in automation as part of their contact center technology. Research shows that 60% of contact center managers say that automation should augment your workers, not replace them. Improving CX and Reducing TCO with Contact Center Automation. MORE

Contact centers are like people: We’re all at different stages, chugging along healthily but sometimes faltering along the way. As we begin to look back at 2018, one thing is becoming clear: Not every contact center is created equal. All contact centers face barriers, and you certainly know your own intimately. Another way contact centers are dragging their heels? Contact centers are expensive, it’s true. MORE

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 Contact Center Workforce Optimization. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2019 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Mid-Year Market Share Report. Perhaps even more significant is that the contact center WFO market grew by 11.6%, from $863.6 MORE

How effective is your contact center? Below are a range of statistics from a benchmark report by Dimension Data, showcasing the numbers that defined the contact center industry in 2015. With 2016 already under way, use these numbers to measure where you sit on the contact center curve. 40% of contact centers “have no tools to analyze data.”. Your contact center cannot afford to manage phone activity blindly. MORE

Noble Systems has been helping companies manage customer contacts and provide a better customer experience for over 30 years. What is the difference between a Call Center and a Contact Center? The Call Center came first, and was primarily based on telephone communications. MORE

If you’re a contact center manager, you might justifiably worry about having to cut your staff. What you notice, however, is that other companies are investing in automation as part of their contact center technology. Research shows that 60% of contact center managers say that automation should augment your workers, not replace them. Improving CX with Contact Center Automation. MORE

Learn why Schedule Change Empowerment makes recruitment of new agents easier, improves agent attrition, and allows contact centers to reduce their agent salary budge [.]. The post The Most Undervalued Contact Center Workforce Optimization Strategy appeared first on Sharpen Contact Center Software. MORE

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. WRONG – much to the dismay of all workforce managers everywhere! Today 70% of intraday issues are handled manually by the WFM team, managers or supervisors, but most leading workforce management software can automate intraday reforecasting for individual intervals, as well as automate much of the schedule change workflow. MORE

The Hybrid Contact Center Workforce of 2030. This will be a relatively common issue in 10 years when contact centers and many other functions in organizations are staffed with a combination of humans, intelligent AI-enabled assistants, and robots. MORE

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 14th Annual Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share Report. growth rate for both the contact center WFO and WFM sectors, and a 10.7% MORE

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. WRONG – much to the dismay of all workforce managers everywhere! Today 70% of intraday these issues are handled manually by the WFM team, managers or supervisors, but most leading workforce management software can automate intraday reforecasting for individual intervals, as well as automate much of the schedule change workflow. MORE

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. For a period, it was mandatory that contact centers get agents out of the building. MORE

Last month Gartner published its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Workforce Optimization report. According to Gartner, the Magic Quadrant constitutes a qualitative analysis of the market and its participants. In the report Gartner evaluates the market’s main vendors according to two criteria: ‘completeness of vision’ and ‘ability to execute.’ MORE

COVID-19 has forced many contact centers to quickly transition from onsite to, in some cases, fully remote operations. This blog compiles the top five best practices to help those who are transitioning to, or looking to maintain, an at-home workforce to achieve the best outcomes. MORE

A hybrid workforce model isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. If you’re unsure of where to start, the six pillars of a hybrid contact center workforce engagement strategy listed above would be a great place to start. Call Center Best Practices MORE

The lasting impacts of COVID-19 are unknown but the accelerated shift to the remote call center workforce management is likely to endure. Will remote agents continue to represent a significant proportion of the call center workforce? MORE

In contact centers today, roughly 65% to 75% of the total operating cost is consumed through paying the frontline staff. For that reason, the biggest opportunity for contact centers to manage or reduce cost is to optimize the utilization of their frontline workforce. To do this, most contact centers today have a workforce manager or an entire workforce management (WFM) department. Workforce Management MORE

Looking specifically at the contact center industry, we have seen a recent flurry of activity around chatbots, intelligent IVRs and virtual agents. In a world where the customer experience is the holy grail, contact centers naturally apply new technologies first to their customers and then to their agents and internal processes. AI will not take the contact center workforce by storm but rather in a gradual, carefully scrutinized evolution of capabilities. MORE

Teleopti, ein führender Anbieter für Personaleinsatzplanungssoftware für Contact Center, gab heute bekannt, dass das Unternehmen gemeinsam mit ZOOM International in den am 20. November 2013 veröffentlichten aktuellen Gartner-Bericht „Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Workforce Optimization“ von Jim Davies aufgenommen wurde MORE

Workforce management has come a long way from its humble origins. Contact Center Workforce Management MORE

A UK-based financial services company, Liverpool Victoria (LV=), has more than 5,000 employees across the UK and needed a single, consistent and flexible workforce optimization platform to strengthen its customer service. The company also wanted to gain flexibility to help shape its future and increase corporate agility. MORE

Contact center agents are the most monitored, micromanaged workforce in existence. Learn how agents can seamlessly access crucial workforce optimization (WFO) functionality without having to leave the Salesforce® Console with CXone Agent for Salesforce®. The post Increase Contact Center Agent Productivity and Satisfaction with CXone Agent for Salesforce® appeared first on inContact Blog. MORE

Paul Jarman , NICE inContact Chief Executive Officer, discusses the key paradigm shifts that will lead to massive change in the contact center and customer experience market as part of our Transforming Customer Experiences series. He details the five key transformations that will dramatically impact the customer experience space, including: Digital Artificial intelligence/self-service Analytics Workforce Cloud. MORE

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 16th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share Report. Contact center WFO revenue grew at an even faster rate, 12.1% MORE

At its most basic level, growing your in-house contact center means you’ll need more space. There’s also the cost of upkeep, both to the facility itself and of your technical infrastructure, where regular upgrades will be necessary to keep your contact center ahead of the curve. Workforce. Scaling your workforce to meet higher contact volumes puts strain on multiple functional areas – most especially your talent acquisition and training teams. MORE

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. Its theme was (and still is) simple—to use the real-time capabilities of contact centers to assist people (customers, prospects, partners, the public, etc.) MORE

Workforce Management WFM Skill SetPart 3: Intraday Management Skills. MORE

Plagued by rising costs, employee churn, absenteeism and declining standards, contact centers across the world are facing a combination of challenges unprecedented in the 50-year history of the industry. Workforce Engagement Management is absolutely crucial to the success of CX. We have already witnessed the rise of technology with performance metrics and targets in the name of Workforce Optimization. MORE