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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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Functional Evolution No longer just facilities that answer consumers' questions, today's contact centers leverage self-service and voice technologies to improve customer loyalty and retention, and even boost profits. Here is what four industry experts have to say about the evolution of the contact center. |
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August 1, 2006
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On the Scene: G-Force 2006--Model Maturity Many organizations struggle to communicate with customers across channels and departments. Looking at metrics is essential to improving performance. Here are highlights of a contact center capability model. |
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June 7, 2013
David Lloyd |
Prepare for the Age of the Customer Advances in technology will help contact centers shine. |
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July 8, 2013 |
New Survey Highlights the Growth of Web Self-Service Web and mobile apps are gaining ground on interactive voice response systems as the self-service channel of choice. |
CRM
November 2014
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Work-at-Home Solutions Are Transforming Call Center Operations At-home agents can be as productive, if not more so, as those in the contact center. |
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December 2, 2013
Stephanie Overby |
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. |
CRM
November 2012
Leonard Klie |
The New Measure of Customer Service Success Why some traditional performance metrics are wrong and what you need to evaluate now. |
CRM
September 2014
Leonard Klie |
Call Handling Time Continues to Rise Sales and customer service calls take 16 percent longer today. |
CRM
September 2010
Koa Beck |
11 Tips to Conquer Contact Centers If your contact center empire feels as if it's crumbling all around you, these best practices may help you reclaim the seat of power. |
CRM
February 2015
Leonard Klie |
The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Contact/Call Centers No longer just about back-office servicing, contact and call centers now provide banks with an opportunity to nurture customer relationships. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Digging for Dollars The insurance agent often is portrayed as going door to door with an oversized briefcase brimming with paper applications. While that might have been so in the 1950s, today, selling insurance means connecting with the customer, and it takes more than just a smile and a shoeshine. It takes knowledge. |
CRM
May 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Making a Clear Connection Integrating your multichannel operations can seem like a near-impossible feat, but it doesn't have to be. Follow these strategies to ease your integration process and maximize your multichannel potential. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Tough Calls Insurance contact centers face a difficult challenge in serving multiple customers, including distributors and policyholders, with very different interests. To maximize satisfaction, carriers must design contact center functionality to fit unique customer needs. |
CRM
August 2011
Leonard Klie |
Changing the Channel Research reveals how consumers will contact customer service within the next two years |
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November 2011
Leonard Klie |
10 Ways to Rearchitect Your Contact Center Hiring, training, and technology are considered keys to raising the customer service standard. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 28, 2008
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Banks Prove Top Performers in Call Center Study Banks are tops when it comes to their call centers, according to a new study. |
CRM
December 2013
Leonard Klie |
Overcome Multichannel Customer Service Challenges Effective strategies start with talking to customers. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Alice Dragoon |
CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
CRM
April 1, 2007
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Business Problem: CSRs Are Inundated with Routine Customer Inquiries, Which Increases Wait Time and Reduces Agent Effectiveness. Tech Solution: Speech-enabled IVRs. Aspect Customer Self-Service... Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal... VoiceObjects 6... |
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September 2010
Koa Beck |
Call Weighting With ClickFox, Sprint takes an analytical look at its cross-channel customer experience - and saves millions in the process. |
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May 2014
Leonard Klie |
The New Roles of Customer Service Outsourcers Labor rates are no longer the main concern as companies consider outsourcing their contact centers. |
Insurance & Technology
June 10, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Key to Keeping Customers Is Getting to Know Them Carriers that get to know their customers well -- by effectively leveraging collected data and by simply listening to what they say -- have a huge advantage in a tough insurance market. |
CRM
January 2015
Leonard Klie |
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. |
CRM
January 25, 2013
Leonard Klie |
Consumers Are Happier with Contact Centers Call Center Satisfaction Index finds Web self-service and email dominate the non-phone mix of contact channels, but social media is playing a critical role. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 25, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
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. |
CRM
January 27, 2012
Anand Subramaniam |
Deliver on Your Customer Service Brand Promises Six ways to make promises you can keep. |
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September 2015
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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October 31, 2014
Kumaran Ponnambalam |
How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance Look beyond technology to serve your customers best. |
PHONE+
December 29, 2009 |
Avaya Lists 10 Communications Trends for 2010 In the past decade, a sea change has taken place in how voice and data communications are structured, delivered and used by businesses. |
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August 26, 2011
Rajaram & Manasa |
The Next Frontier in Call Center Analytics Investing in operations is not enough. Ideally, companies would invest unlimited funds into ensuring that each and every customer receives a personal, efficient call center experience. |
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October 2014
Leonard Klie |
Should CSRs Be Paid for Performance? Why companies must assess the effectiveness of tying agent compensation to contact center metrics. |
CRM
February 22, 2013
Paul Lang |
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. |
CRM
February 2006
Coreen Bailor |
6 Common Contact Center Mistakes Here, contact center industry experts reveal six common, but sometimes overlooked, blunders that plague the industry, and offer advice for avoiding or reversing missteps. |
CRM
February 26, 2013
Leonard Klie |
inContact Releases New Version of Cloud Contact Center Software The company expands multichannel offering with Universal Queue, new agent interface, true inbound and outbound blending, and an API-driven cloud ecosystem. |
CRM
October 2004
Coreen Bailor |
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. |
CRM
April 1, 2007
Collins et al. |
Satisfying a Double Standard How to capture the real self-service opportunity. Satisfying the double standard of attempting to drive customers to lower cost channels while improving the experience is the key to success. |
CRM
May 20, 2011
Tom Topolinski |
Call Centers Beware Social media and smart technologies are here |
CRM
June 9, 2014
Leonard Klie |
Pegasystems Releases Customer Process Manager for Insurance PCMI enables insurers to deliver consistent customer service across channels. |
CIO
June 1, 2006
Susannah Patton |
Answering the Call Everyone's had a bad experience with a call center. But now companies are investing in advanced technologies and at-home agents to connect with customers, not put them on hold. |
CRM
February 2013
Leonard Klie |
Case Management Takes a Dynamic Turn Progressive contact centers can incorporate adaptability, cross-sell and upsell capabilities, social media integration, gamification, and multiple channels. |
CRM
March 2011 |
The 2011 Service Leaders Here are this year's class of service winners and leaders. Each leader is graded on three criteria - customer satisfaction, depth of functionality, and company direction - in seven categories of support and service. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 3, 2006
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Opportunity Calling In their ongoing quest to increase revenue and retain customers, banks have redoubled their efforts to find and implement cutting-edge technologies and strategies to identify sales opportunities and improve service -- sometimes with mixed results. |
Insurance & Technology
May 19, 2009
Kaytes & Josefowicz |
Technology and the Science of Customer Retention Data accessibility, analytics, rules-driven workflow, and process visibility can supply the capabilities insurers need to retain profitable customers. |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2010
Joel Curry |
Data Quality is Key to Agency Portal Performance A relatively small investment in data quality can make a big difference in helping insurers get more out of their agent portals than they put in. |
CRM
August 2, 2010
Alex Dayon |
From Deflecting Customers to Embracing Them Six ways that the new Internet - a mobile, social, and real-time Internet - is changing the playing field for CRM and putting customers back in control. |
CRM
November 9, 2012
Ravi Vijayaraghavan |
Applying Data Analytics to Customer Interactions A three-part framework for making data work for your business. |
CRM
January 9, 2013 |
Genesys Extends Contact Center Routing to Support Microsoft Lync Genesys, a provider of customer service solutions, has integrated Microsoft Lync with its customer service platform, creating a combined voice platform that enables companies to unify contact center interactions and enterprise communications. |
CRM
March 2013 |
CRM Service Awards: Service Elite Activision began to explore solutions that would give it the flexibility it needed to service its gamers in the channel of their choice. Last March, the company selected Salesforce.com Service Cloud and was able to roll out the product globally and across three of its contact centers within 90 days. |
