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Contact/Call Centers No longer just about back-office servicing, contact and call centers now provide banks with an opportunity to nurture customer relationships. |
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Prepare for the Age of the Customer Advances in technology will help contact centers shine. |
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January 14, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
Contact Centers or Cost Centers? IM, e-mail and cross-selling are among the ways banks are striving to improve service and profitability in their contact centers. |
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. |
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August 2011
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Changing the Channel Research reveals how consumers will contact customer service within the next two years |
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The Missing Piece of the Customer Experience Puzzle Visually enabled IVR picks up where apps and self-service leave off. |
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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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The Future of Contact Centers The ideal contact center of 2010 will be a profit center, with primary revenue-generation responsibility, with growing revenues coming from Gen. Y consumers who are interacting using technology. |
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June 23, 2011
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JPMorgan's Contrarian Bet on Bank Branches JPMorgan seeks a source of cheap funds as rivals retrench. Analysts are skeptical. |
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Angel Unveils New Outbound Campaign Manager A cloud-based tool gives businesses the flexibility and insight to proactively create personalized customer experiences. |
U.S. Banker
December 2001
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Branches -- Hot New Delivery Channel With banks in a struggle for customers, branches have become in-the-field artillery. After years of fiddling with newfangled delivery channels, bankers across the nation are rediscovering that branches can be their most powerful weapons... |
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November 17, 2004
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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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2006
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Don't Shutter the Branch Yet Despite all the attention given to online banking and self-service, for now, branches remain a strong component of banks' channel strategies, evidence suggests. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 2, 2004
Steven Marlin |
Where The Money Is The current branch revival is evidence that the era of multichannel delivery is here to stay. |
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May 2005
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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. |
Bank Technology News
August 2006 |
Branches Take Center Stage: Invest or Fall Behind Branches are a top priority among chief executives who see them as the nucleus of their retail banking franchises. But not all chief executives have been as quick to rethink, retool and reinvigorate their branches as their more aggressive peers. |
Bank Technology News
August 2010
Rebecca Sausner |
Citi's Japanese Revolution Citi's "smart banking" strategy in Japan. |
Bank Technology News
May 2003 |
By The Numbers When it comes to customer service, bank customers still want to talk to an actual person when they dial into a call center, but that may change. |
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February 2, 2004 |
Hot Seat: Self-Help Alters the Service Landscape As Web self-help grows in popularity among both customers and the companies that serve them, CRM magazine asks: Can Web self-help solutions enable companies to bring outsourced customer service efforts back in house? Why or why not? |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 4, 2003
Ivan Schneider |
Fast-Track Citizens Why do people continue to use bank branches despite the ready availability of automated alternatives? Who knows? But since they do, Citizens Bank has continued to place the branch at the center of its retail banking strategy. |
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The Big Retail Showdown Despite countless warnings that the industry has hit a wall on brick-and-mortar viability, lots of financial institutions are holding their ground, determined not to let this era become branching's last stand. Can branches remain profitable once the dust settles on the current economy? |
Bank Technology News
July 2009
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The Future of the Bank Branch Innovative branch design and technology must encourage engagement with employees, not to discourage human interaction. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 3, 2009
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In Channel Projects, Banks Look for Simpler Solutions The new economic conditions are dictating smarter use of resources among banks as they enhance their channels. |
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September 2010
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Miles to Go The online banking evolution is far from over. Banks have a lot of room to improve and a lot of revenue to gain once they do. |
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November 16, 2010
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Avaya Releases Aura Contact Center Avaya Aura Contact Center creates a collaborative space for agents, customers, and experts using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based communications. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 28, 2004
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Contact Centers It is critical for banks to have well-trained contact center personnel and to implement the latest self-service and voice technologies. |
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June 1, 2005
Colin Beasty |
Virtual Contact Centers Need Some Fine-Tuning With recent product enhancements, such as VoIP Virtual Contact Center by Five9 and Siebel's announcement of Siebel On Demand 7 equipped with distribution capabilities for call center management, virtual contact centers are gaining momentum. |
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April 1, 2005
Paul Stockford |
Is Inbound Calling the Next Legislative Target? Lawmakers are taking aim at companies that use offshore call centers. |
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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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January 2004
Jason Compton |
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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January 2010
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Contact Center Innovation: What to Expect in 2010 Organizations must change their mission and culture to benefit from new technologies. |
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December 3, 2009
Daniel Lonstein |
Meeting Call-Center Challenges Last year was a mixed bag of opportunity, risk and regulatory hurdles for the call center industry. |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 1, 2006
Phil Britt |
Study: Channel Preference Is Age-Dependent Though financial services customers as a whole prefer branch banking, there are clear differences in customers' channel preferences based on age, according to a recent American Bankers Association (Washington, D.C.) survey of 1,000 consumers. |
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May 2011
Matthew de Paula |
New Adventures in Branch Banking More banks are thinking about not just how to redesign their branches, but how to redesign their entire branch experience. |
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November 15, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Making Successful Contact Industry experts answer questions about how contact centers fit into insurers' customer service and distribution strategies. |
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August 2010
Alan Kline |
Banking 2020: Smartphones Rule All the hubbub about smartphones laying the decisive blow to branches is unnecessary; they can peacefully and successfully co-exist with some retooling. |
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May 1, 2007
Donna Fluss |
Analytics Is the Answer What do contact center managers need to generate revenue? New tools and technologies. |
Bank Technology News
April 2002
David Rountree |
Phone Glitches Drive Consumers to Competition Banks, more than most companies, are likely to lose customers when service quality slips... |
Bank Technology News
November 2010
Sean Sposito |
Self-Service (R)Evolution "Branches are the number one or number two predictor of deposit growth. Branch convenience is the number one or number two reason that customers chose a bank," says Jed Taylor, vp of uGenius. |
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May 1, 2006
Colin Beasty |
Centering Operations on the Customer Although the contact center continues to be used in the strategic vocabulary of C-level executives, a new study also found that contact centers aren't doing a good job putting their plans into practice. |
U.S. Banker
January 2008
Figgat et al. |
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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July 1, 2005
Coreen Bailor |
On the Scene: From Cost Center To Cash Cow As contact centers are under mounting pressure to grow revenue for organizations, CSRs are being encouraged to engage in cross- and upsell opportunities. |
CRM
March 2004 |
The 2004 Service Leaders--Part I The leading customer service vendors for 2004 |
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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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May 2010
Matthew De Paula |
5 Ways to Optimize the Branch The branch of the future will be much leaner. But the inevitable downsizing of space and staff can be tricky. Here are some ways banks are turning less into more. |
Insurance & Technology
September 1, 2007
Nathan Conz |
Insurers Upgrade Call Center Technologies To Improve Customer Experience Insurers are changing their contact center philosophies and upgrading call center technology in an effort to improve customer satisfaction and boost customer retention. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Citigroup Scraps GMAC Rumors The financial giant's CEO looks to the future while passing up a potential acquisition of GMAC. Citigroup shareholders must be relieved. |
Bank Technology News
July 2011 |
Citi Turns to Apple for Inspiration Citi is investing millions in new branches and branch refurbishments that provide technology and design upgrades, providing a more Apple-like experience for retail customers. |
CRM
March 2014
David Myron |
Top 3 Customer Service Trends for 2014 This year's hottest customer service trends include social media, cloud technology, and mobile devices. |
