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Using Omnichannel Contact Center to Drive Customer Satisfaction

InMoment XI

As a matter of fact, the first employed call center agents date back to the 1950s. But, these agents only made and received phone calls. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that these call centers evolved into multichannel contact centers. What is an Omnichannel Contact Center?

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Workforce Management for Call Centers: What You Need to Know

Playvox

Managing forecasting, scheduling, and agent productivity in a call center is a lot like searching for the fountain of youth. While we don’t have a roadmap to the proverbial fountain, we can help steer you in the right direction for better call center workforce management (WFM). But getting to this nirvana is no picnic.

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Improving the patient experience: How to offer more consumer-centric care

Talkdesk

Healthcare consumers today have new and more demanding expectations, forged by Amazon and Uber-like experiences where digital comes first. HCOs must become more consumer oriented. In the wake of COVID-19, providing patient-centered care and a more consumer-like patient experience is critical for HCOs.

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Improving call center metrics with knowledge management

eGain Blogs

The importance of knowledge management in the call center is growing. ” Knowledge improves call center metrics (KPIs). . ” Knowledge improves call center metrics (KPIs). These are some call center metrics that knowledge management impacts in the contact center: First-Contact Resolution (FCR).

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Can Your WFM Solution Accurately Forecast In A Modern Digital Contact Center?

Playvox

Let’s face it, the call center of yesteryear is not wholly relevant when looking at customer service operations today. Even the terms “call center” and “contact center” are called into question, given the images they evoke of rows of agents in cubicles lined up to fill a room. Average Handle Time.

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Contact Center AI: How It Can Transform Your CX

Playvox

The Evolution of Contact Center AI Early uses of AI and machine learning (ML) showed up in call centers years ago in intelligent routing solutions and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. These “cutting-edge” technologies at the time helped managers better distribute and manage voice calls more efficiently.

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Validating Your Outsourced Customer Care Partnership: Is Your Incumbent “Still the One”?

BlueOcean

For clients with complex care scenarios – whether that is enterprise customer success management or providing critical support direct to consumers – change is never taken lightly. Let’s face it: Contact center metrics that measure customer service as if it’s some kind of race (think Average Handle Time) are frankly table stakes.