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

BlueOcean

Whether it’s your own culture that shifts over time or that of your outsourcer, keeping a pulse on cultural alignment in your outsourced contact center is essential. Is communication still going strong and do you feel comfortable in those interactions? Just as important – has their culture evolved with the times?

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Instead, we live in a customer-centric world, where metrics like Average Speed of Answer (ASA), Average Handle Time (AHT), and First Call Resolution (FCR) are, by themselves, short-sighted and more focused on controlling costs instead of enhancing the experience.

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Top Call Center Efficiency Metrics And How To Improve Them

Playvox

Ultimately delivering outstanding customer experiences should be a strategic business priority for organizations if it isn’t already. For customer support leaders, metrics tied to the goal of delivering and improving upon outstanding customer care and experiences should matter the most and be top priorities.

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Two problems with your KPIs

Zeisler Consulting

Even operational measures (think: Average Handle Time, First Contact Resolution, etc.) often drive people to do something that negatively impacts the Customers’ experiences. Similarly, CSAT, NPS, Customer Effort Score, and yes even Brand Alignment Score are all too vague. how to improve it.

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Customer Experience Measurement: Which Metrics Should You Focus On?

Chattermill

Where NPS measures a customer’s overall perception of a brand, customer satisfaction (CSAT) measures how satisfied a customer is with a specific product, service, or interaction with a brand. From there, brands have an opportunity to identify problem areas and link them to a particular phase in the customer journey.

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How to Improve First Call Resolution, Reduce Call Volume & Accelerate Self-Help

Pointillist

Call centers, therefore, want to improve first call resolution rate, reduce call volume, and excel at customer service while reining in high costs. There has been a concerted effort to move customer interaction towards lower cost digital channels and away from voice calls in recent years. Here are the nuts and bolts.

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The Definitive List of 27 Call Center Metrics and KPIs

Pointillist

According to industry analyst firm CEB, customer satisfaction really suffers after high-effort or time-intensive interactions. CES asks customers to evaluate how much effort they had to put in to get their issue resolved. It is the average cost for each call handled by a call center.