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QM Picture Grows Blurry Vendors deliver a broad suite of new functionality. |
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December 2003
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July 1, 2004
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Market Watch: Making Sense of Workforce Optimization The reluctance to purchase workforce optimization solutions is based primarily on the general confusion in the marketplace. |
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Business Problem: The call center needs to strike a balance between call volumes and quality of service. Tech Solution: Quality monitoring tools. NICE Perform... Verint ULTRA IntelliQuality... Witness Systems Impact 360... |
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November 2011
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10 Ways to Rearchitect Your Contact Center Hiring, training, and technology are considered keys to raising the customer service standard. |
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January 2004
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The Changing Role of the Contact Center Agent With the proliferation of online self-help and new call center technologies, agents are being asked to resolve more challenging issues or to transform themselves into salespeople. But are current agents, who primarily respond to basic service requests, right for these new roles? |
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April 2014
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The General Reboots Agent Training with Intradiem The online auto insurance provider updates agent skills with Intraday Management technology. |
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November 2012
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The New Measure of Customer Service Success Why some traditional performance metrics are wrong and what you need to evaluate now. |
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July 2005
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Lending a Helping Hand Business outsourcing provider Pearson Government Solutions answers the call of thousands who take employment for granted with those who cannot. |
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July 15, 2005
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CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
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Call Centers Suffer From Big Data Overload Nearly half of all contact centers consistently collect and report on metrics that they never use to improve the customer experience, according to a new survey. |
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February 2013
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Case Management Takes a Dynamic Turn Progressive contact centers can incorporate adaptability, cross-sell and upsell capabilities, social media integration, gamification, and multiple channels. |
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March 2006
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Keeping Balance in the Center Organizations no longer have to choose between efficiency and effectiveness as contact center technology evolves. If your contact center efforts are unbalanced, consider these five approaches to achieving service and efficiency equilibrium. |
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April 2007
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The 2007 Service Elite Here are five companies that realized eye-catching returns on their contact center services and technology investments: Juniper Networks, Web-Support Services... Taylor Corporation, Workforce Optimization... etc. |
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July 2013
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Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
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April 2005
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The 2005 Service Elite Awards The 2005 Service Elite awards in customer service in the following categories: Knowledge-Base Tools, Agent-Facing Universal Desktop, Quality Monitoring, Workforce Management, Speech Solutions, and Outsourcing Services. |
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September 1, 2009
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November 2004
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October 2014
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July 2003
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Service on Steroids The contact center performance enhancers of choice these days are training, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and workforce management. These tools are coming together to form one dynamic performance-optimization solution to pump up the service volume. |
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The 2004 Service Leaders--Part II The leading customer service vendors for 2004 |
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November 2014
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June 2005
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100 Proven CRM Ideas, Part 2 90 bright ideas for your CRM strategy and 10 dim ones to avoid. Here are tips 51 through 100. |
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January 2007
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Home Bodies Cut contact center operating costs, reduce churn rates, and up flexibility -- a serious look at the at-home agent model. |
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December 8, 2003
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Call Center Performance and Customer Satisfaction Better understanding of the decisional procedures of a call center could provide call center organizations with the level of customer service they have been striving for. |
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October 2004
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12 Ways to Boost Productivity From better knowledge bases and improved natural-language search engines, to workforce management strategies and business process reengineering, here's what's new in enhancing contact center productivity. |
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February 2010
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Stressed and Distressed Under-appreciated. Overworked. Underpaid. Here's a shock: Stressed-out customer service agents provide lousy customer service. We've got ways to reduce the tension - and raise satisfaction - on both sides of the call. |
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July 2013
Leonard Klie |
A Matter of Time Within five days of introducing RightTime management solution from Intradiem, Vivint delivered 2,400 training and coaching sessions, all during idle time. |
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September 2014
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Call Handling Time Continues to Rise Sales and customer service calls take 16 percent longer today. |
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July 1, 2005
David Myron |
How to...Assess Customer Satisfaction Levels by Going Beyond the Standard Satisfaction Survey Customers may not tell you when they're happy, but when they're unhappy, look out--you'll get an earful. Consider these tips for assessing customer satisfaction levels by going beyond the standard satisfaction survey. |
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Prepare for the Age of the Customer Advances in technology will help contact centers shine. |
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February 2003
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Just Desserts Rewarding and recognizing contact center agents is as much science as it is art. |
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February 22, 2013
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What's Next for the Contact Center? The challenge for contact center managers will be finding a way to offer the best customer service at the lowest cost. Here are seven trends that we can't ignore. |
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April 3, 2012 |
inContact Extends Its Cloud Platform The platform is expanded to include more reporting, scripting, and integrations. |
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August 19, 2011
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Call Centers Support Insurance in Multichannel Environment Customer experience continues to be a key differentiator in insurance |
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April 2003
David Myron |
Delivering on its Promise CRM is turning call centers into profit centers. |
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Perspectives: High-Performance Contact Centers Emerging technologies such as VoIP, voice- driven, self-service systems, and intelligent call routing systems can increase flexibility in the bank contact center, resulting in improvements in agent productivity and enhanced customer satisfaction. |
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July 20, 2012
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Customer Service 2.0 Five tips for creating an agile and successful call center to keep up with customer demands. |
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January 2015
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In Customer Service, It's More Efficient to Be Effective Rushing customers off the phone might cut costs, but ignores the potential for greater value. |
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October 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Tech Solution: Workforce Management Solutions Business problem: Managers cannot staff and manage their contact centers effectively. Workforce optimization solutions, which are simplifying those complex tasks while providing insightful performance management and learning capabilities. |
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Making Contact Centers Profitable Forty percent of contact centers today are revenue drivers -- up from zero just ten years ago. What are these institutions doing differently from those that seem stuck in the cost-center model? And what can the latter do to improve? |
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Leonard Klie |
EBay Finds a NICE Way to Save NICE Systems' Interaction Analytics helps eBay Enterprise dramatically cut average handling times |
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February 15, 2004
Meridith Levinson |
Getting to Know Them Tackling CRM is a huge challenge for companies across all industries. Here's how four of this year's winners are able to gather and mine customer data for real value. |
CRM
May 2003
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Good Advice E.piphany has introduced two vertical versions of its E.piphany Interaction Advisor: Interaction Advisor for Retail Finance and Interaction Advisor for Telecommunications. The focus of the products is on cross-selling and retention, respectively. |
