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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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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The Impact of Bilingual Support on the Customer Experience When a bilingual solution is offered to the customer, companies quickly find that quality scores increase accordingly. The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business?

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. Call Deflection Rate.

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Future State of the Contact Center: ChatGPT in Customer Experience

BlueOcean

Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. The question of the moment is: what role is ChatGPT going to play in delivering a loyalty-building customer experience? Can AI Handle Complex Customer Care?

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Silencing the Noise: Unveiling the Impact on Contact Centre Agents and Brands

CSM Magazine

Not only is this a frustrating waste of time for you (the customer), it can also heavily affect a brand’s reputation. But what is too often overlooked is the impact these interactions and frustrations are having on agents’ mental health and productivity.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. One Metric to Rule Them All. But where do we start?

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Does AI Mean the End for Contact Centres or Simply Higher Levels of Customer Care?

CSM Magazine

Or can contact centres start to leverage the move towards AI and create a more customer-focused environment that will result in higher levels of customer care? Moving your CC team to video chat gives you the metrics you need to convince management of the value.