DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2018

Question: We’re trying to schedule the right number of agents for our new digital channels through our current workforce management (WFM) application, but the forecasts and schedules are not very accurate. We’ve had our WFM solution about 10 years and it’s provided good results in the past. What’s the issue?

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Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. Modern, AI-powered WFM solutions , together with the right WFM strategies and processes, do the heavy lifting when spreadsheets and manual processes can no longer keep up. WFM to the rescue.

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Call Design

JULY 6, 2021

A customer effort score refers to the effort that a customer has given, to get a solution or answer to their desired question. As a result, the feedback could be biased and may not accurately represent a customer’s effort to obtain a solution. First Contact Resolution. Net Promoter Score. Customer Effort Score.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They also look to consolidate solutions through pre-built integrations. With this unique solution pairing, Salesforce-powered contact centers can now have a digital-first, cloud-native workforce engagement suite, which also includes quality management and coaching.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned. Schedule adherence – When agents don’t adhere to schedules, they aren’t available to service customers as planned. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Playvox

JULY 31, 2023

When thinking about workforce management (WFM), often people think of forecasting and scheduling. However, some of the quickest ROI can come from the employee self-service (ESS) aspects of a WFM solution. Ensuring that employees can be a part of managing their schedule has big benefits. All that time adds up quickly.

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Callminer

MARCH 9, 2020

Scheduling forms the foundation of every successful call center operation. However, call center scheduling is much more complex than most other scheduling concerns. This article describes how the process can be simplified with software and what you can do get the best scheduling solution for your organization.

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Call Design

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In order to take advantage of the superior forecasting, scheduling and monitoring capabilities available they chose the Alvaria WEM Suite. They’re delivering the robust functionality Transport for NSW needed to forecast, schedule and help agents perform at their absolute best.”. The choice was easy.”.

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Playvox

JUNE 28, 2022

We’ll reveal how a modern workforce management (WFM) solution built with the digital customer in mind helps you get there. During the global pandemic, customers massively turned to digital communications, and, according to consumer studies , this change is here to stay. But don’t worry. You’ve got this! This article will help guide the way.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Workforce management (WFM) solutions are essential in good times and even more indispensable when the economy is challenged and budgets are tight. Now, WFM solutions can engage agents by inviting them to select the days and times they want to work, giving them schedule flexibility, which is a top requirement for today’s workforce.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Together with a central data platform team, the data science teams bring innovation and digital transformation through AI and ML solutions to the organization. We decided to build a prototype from one of the currently most developed ML models within Axfood: forecasting sales in stores.

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Playvox

JUNE 7, 2023

I would explain that it means creating schedules, but it’s so much more. They’ll have questions like: Why do I have this schedule? A workforce management solution is a must in a successful customer service center. When I worked in contact centers, people would ask what I did for a living, and I would say Workforce Management.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 5, 2021

You’ve probably heard of ‘ virtual queuing ‘ or perhaps heard of ‘virtual hold,’ which is a branded virtual queuing solution from VHT. Virtual queuing technology is the colloquial name for many virtual queuing solutions offered by many of the large contact center platforms, and VHT, the only competitor to Fonolo.

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Call Design

JULY 27, 2021

The ability to evaluate the effectiveness of your workforce management solution can drastically improve the performance of your contact centre. Using a workforce management solution can provide so much more insight than an Excel spreadsheet, helping you to streamline operations, optimise performance, and engage agents.

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Call Design

JULY 19, 2021

The ability to evaluate the effectiveness of your workforce management solution can drastically improve the performance of your contact centre. Using a workforce management solution can provide so much more insight than an Excel spreadsheet, helping you to streamline operations, optimise performance, and engage agents.

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Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

If you have the right contact center solutions that provide real-time and historical data for the most important call center productivity metrics, it’s a lot easier. Are agents working on what they are scheduled to do? Look at schedule adherence and schedule compliance metrics.

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Contact Center Coaching Schedule adherence Abandon rate 74

Noble Systems

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Fine-tuned WFM forecasting and scheduling is how these outcomes are accomplished. A more accurate forecast, and therefore schedule, minimizes errors and intraday changes. Figure part timers based on actual hours scheduled. Here are five common WFM forecasting and scheduling pitfalls to avoid.

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Call Design

MAY 31, 2022

Australia’s leading CX outsourcing solutions provider, TSA Group, has approximately 3,000 customer service and sales agents servicing industries including telco, health insurance, finance and retail. Alvaria is the world leader in enterprise-scale customer experience (CX) and workforce engagement management (WEM) solutions.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At its most basic, WFM solutions forecast the workload and use this information to project the number of resources (human or automated) required to complete the work within a predefined response time (or service level) for every five-, 10-, 15-, 30-, or 60-minute increment of the day, and possibly night.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For contact center managers, this phrase rings in their heads each time they create a forecast, build a schedule, or track schedule adherence. . Research by Nucleus found that workforce management solutions pay back an average of $12.24 for every dollar spent, with an average payback period of just under five months.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

At the core of this modern transformation lie Enterprise Contact Center Solutions , sophisticated platforms designed to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. Are customers becoming more and more demanding with time? Geared towards smaller-scale operations with fewer agents and lower call volumes.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 27, 2024

AI is key to modifying and enhancing WFM solutions to enable them to properly address the needs of advanced contact centers and other operating environments that handle voice and digital synchronous and asynchronous interactions.

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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The simple fact is that the complex workforce planning process starts with a forecast of the future contact volume (voice inbound or outbound, email, chat, SMS, video, back office, etc.) and then use that information to produce schedules, or the raw materials employees will use to build their own schedules.

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Aspect

APRIL 29, 2020

Aspect partner, Call Design, shares insight regarding how to get the most out of your WFM solution as agents work from home during this global pandemic. COVID-19 has created an urgent need for most organisations to rapidly implement work from home solutions for their staff. Keeping Your Agents Engaged.

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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

They must transition quickly from customer to customer without letting down their friendly disposition, be prepared to work atypical schedules to meet changing demand and leverage technology deftly to provide seamless service. Workforce management solutions can alleviate many of the leading causes of agent fatigue.

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Aspect

MAY 6, 2020

Consider these examples: Forecasts: Many changes for working-from-home may affect the accuracy of contact forecasts, for example, new hours of operation, staffing changes, increased shrinkage, and new digital customer service channels being substituted for voice. Forecasting should be reviewed.

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Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

The WFM Forecaster A forecaster’s job is to predict upcoming volumes using historical data – such as volume, handle time, and shrinkage. The WFM Forecaster A forecaster’s job is to predict upcoming volumes using historical data – such as volume, handle time, and shrinkage. Why is this?

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JustCall

APRIL 9, 2024

One minute, your agents are cruising along; the next, they’re buried in a mountain of calls. These unpredictable ups and downs can be brutal for everyone involved. Stressed-out agents face burnout during peak times and feel underutilized when things slow down —– it’s not a recipe for success. But fear not.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 12, 2023

Their solutions have improved significantly during the past few years, and much more innovation is on its way to market. Vendors are delivering more intelligent and flexible applications designed to handle the forecasting and scheduling needs of a digitally transforming society, which is no easy feat.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2024

Data storage: Vast amounts of data are collected for big data analytics, which requires robust data storage solutions. Most call centers use a combination of traditional databases and cloud-based storage solutions to accommodate the volume, velocity, and variety of big data. There are several key components of big data analytics.

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Global Response

OCTOBER 28, 2022

WFM involves forecasting contact volumes by channel or interactions, staffing during the term, the production of schedules and reporting and analysis of data that allow management to deliver on its goals. WFM uses mathematical models, such as Erlang , and sophisticated software, such as Calabrio , in its solutions.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Yet, it took a global pandemic to drive home just how anything can happen, at any time, and we all need to be equipped to handle anything. Rising customer expectations, sporadic demand, and a new world of remote and hybrid work have wreaked havoc with agent shifts and schedules. Here are the essentials: 1.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 25, 2018

They discuss the concept of the “gig economy,” the utilization of contact centers for freelance employee management, and how on-demand agents can provide cost-effective support and solutions for your customers and your business. In a gig-type model, the need to fully understand your business and forecast its needs is crucial.

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Contact Center Quality management Consulting Consulting 195

Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Capacity planning, forecasting, and scheduling were all based on averages and educated guesses. Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. As younger customers make up more and more of the marketplace, they’re shifting service preferences toward digital channels.

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Playvox

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you have ever created a schedule, you have used the base concepts of WFM, ensuring enough staff (supply) to handle the demand (customers). If you have followed a schedule for your job, you have experienced the base concepts of WFM as being part of the staff to handle the demand. What is WFM?

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