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Cutting Through the Buzzwords of AI in the Contact Center

CCNG

Do you sometimes feel like you are playing buzzword bingo when reading anything about AI in the contact center? A lot of customers who have spent a lifetime in the contact center and survived a world of acronyms like AHT, CSAT, and PICINC are feeling alienated in their own world. You are not alone.

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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. However, the contact center should have been valued.

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Let’s talk about Chat GPT in the Contact Center

CCNG

CCNG members and veteran contact center leaders Fred Stacey and Adam Boelke recently discussed with fellow members the potential impact, current challenges, misconceptions and future of ChatGPT in contact centers. ChatGPT has captured the attention of everyone by smashing record adoption rates globally.

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How to Reduce Contact Center Implementation Cost Surprises

CCNG

Have you ever experienced a contact center implementation project where there were surprise costs? I don’t know the industry statistics for how often this occurs in contact centers, but a variety of 3rd party IT industry organizations and journals say it’s above 30% for software projects.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Building a successful CX program requires teams to share data seamlessly across multiple functions, including support services, contact center, marketing, and sales. The Value Index is an assessment of how well vendors address buyers’ requirements for CX software and incorporates all criteria.

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A Key Issue Customers Miss When Choosing a Cloud Contact Center Product

CCNG

Here is information that my fellow CCNG members may want to consider when choosing a new cloud contact center product. 1 As a key part of an organization, contact centers are often greatly affected by change. Summary In summary, change is increasingly becoming a more predominant factor affecting contact centers.

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The Making of a Contact Center Superagent

Contact Center Pipeline

The universal agent is certainly not a new concept for contact centers. Next-available agent routing models have long relied on the use of experienced agents who have been cross-trained to handle a wide variety of call types, from technical support to billing to sales.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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Linking & Networking for a Better Agent Experience

Speaker: Jeremy Watkin, Director of Customer Experience at FCR

If you're a contact center leader you've undoubtedly been inundated with sales people trying to get you to hop on the chatbot bandwagon. But is this the best place to burn our operational calories?

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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Top Industry Secrets for Successful Contact Center Scripting

Speaker: Colin Taylor, CEO & Chief Chaos Officer at The Taylor Reach Group, Inc

Scripts have been around as long as contact centers. They attempt to set out an ‘ideal’ path to success on the call, whether that's a sale, a resolved inquiry, or a closed case. But scripts have had a variety of issues. In some cases, legal requirements mandated that scripts be read verbatim, word for word.

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Turning Your Contact Center into a Profit Center by Leveraging Chat

Speaker: Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai

Live chat as a communication channel has significantly grown in recent years as the leading digital contact method, according to J.D Join Tony Medrano, CEO of RapportBoost.ai