BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. But with this new height of significance, is customer success really something you can outsource?

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Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. But with this new height of significance, is customer success really something you can outsource?

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Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 156

Call Experts

APRIL 14, 2022

The goal of ASA is to answer calls quickly and efficiently while meeting customer expectations. Unfortunately, it is often more complicated than measuring how long it takes for customers to wait for someone to pick up the phone. In a perfect world, customers would only call your call center if everything was going smoothly.

Call Center 98

Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center 98

NICE inContact

MARCH 29, 2018

For Young Energy, a family-owned retail electric provider in Forth Worth, Texas, serving its 25,000 customers had become increasingly difficult. Our goal was to serve our customers better,” says Young Energy’s Chief Technology Officer Bruce Gilbert. “We Working with NICE inContact has accomplished all that and more.

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Average Handle Time Contact Center Retail Metrics 48

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score 146

Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Boost CX and operational efficiency with the right set of metrics and smart additions to your contact center tech stack. According to Gartner, 82% of companies will allow employees to work remotely at least some of the time, while nearly 50% of companies plan to make remote work permanent.

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Metrics Technology Contact Center Customer Experience 87

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. Are you still in regular contact with your partner’s leadership team and do you still trust them to deliver excellence for your customers?

Customer Care 156

Customer Care Contact Center Net Promoter Score Metrics 156

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer experience (CX) has become a priority for the vast majority of organisations – or has it? With the large volumes of contact center advisors still incentivized based on speed – typically the Average Handle Time (AHT) – CX goals are quite often unachievable. Companies have two options: speed or quality.

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Metrics Customer Service Contact Center Social Media 55

BlueOcean

JUNE 26, 2018

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. Encouraging the act of effective listening requires effective management.

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Customer Service Contact Center Hospitality Hotels 353

Kayako

JUNE 8, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it.

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Metrics Customer Experience Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score 96

Playvox

JANUARY 11, 2024

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). What is Workforce Management for Call Centers?

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Call Center Contact Center Management Omnichannel 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Average handle time is an important contact centre metric but it can be a double-edged sword that creates customer dissatisfaction. The research revealed that 88% of customers agreed with this statement and that 43% of them still prefer non-digital channels.

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Average Handle Time Multi-Channel Contact Center Metrics 59

eGain Blogs

APRIL 10, 2023

According to them, knowledge management (KM) is the #1 technology that simultaneously improves operational performance, customer experience, and employee experience, and we agree. Call deflection Self-service helps deflect incoming calls and requests for human-assisted digital customer service (e.g.,

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Management Average Handle Time Net Promoter Score 52

Magellan Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

The purpose of structured interviews is to ask questions about specific topics such as service demands and the quality of customer service provided by your agents regularly. The effectiveness of customer service teams can be gauged by call center performance metrics. What is the best way to measure call center efficiency?

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Call Center Average Handle Time Metrics Customer Satisfaction 98

Playvox

APRIL 6, 2023

Maximizing workforce management efficiency through real-time data is an often-overlooked advantage for contact centers. With real-time information, you can make crucial intraday adjustments that improve your efficiency and your customer experience. What Is Real-Time Data Monitoring In Workforce Management?

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Management Contact Center Average Handle Time Metrics 54

Playvox

AUGUST 25, 2022

As workforce management professionals, we are faced with the daunting task of figuring out the ideal forecast, matching that forecast with a schedule and then making sure that our “master plan” works in the real world – meaning all the people that we are counting on for their shifts work their shifts as planned.

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Management Contact Center Average Handle Time Healthcare 85

TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

By systematically and visually leading a caller through a series of steps, the service team can reduce costs by cutting the AHT spent on calls and increasing the number of customers they serve. This performance improvement is especially valuable when asking customers to perform complex tasks that extend the time of the call.

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Engagement Average Handle Time Call Center Connections 109

COPC

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In last month’s article , we looked at how coaching customer satisfaction (CSAT) to a number may lead to wasted time and effort, employee dissatisfaction, and difficulty improving CSAT results. CSAT as an Output Metric Something we need to align on first is that CSAT is an output metric in the contact center, not an input.

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Customer Satisfaction Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center 92

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’ve been following along, you already know the incredible value that a balanced scorecard brings to performance management. By fostering a collaborative approach and consistently evaluating the metrics within your scorecard, you pave the way for informed decision-making and drive performance improvements across your organization.

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Management Metrics Average Handle Time 2022 52

Magellan Solutions

MAY 21, 2023

Are you ready to make your brand more appealing to diverse customers ? Businesses deal with different types of customers every day, including those with foreign languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, etc. Bilingual Answering Services are a type of customer service that involves bilingual customer service agents.

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Call Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction Competitive Advantage 98

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. My Comment: For those in the customer support world, this article is for you. AHT, as in average handle time, is a metric used to measure the average length of time for a customer support call.

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Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Customer service knowledge comes in many forms from customer self-service knowledge to agent-facing knowledge, and many formats from video, to knowledge base articles and more. A recent Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) survey of more than 2,000 global consumers confirms that customers want fast and correct information above all else.

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Metrics Measurement Customer Service 2016 60

Playvox

JULY 14, 2023

Providing an ever-improving customer experience while boosting contact center agent productivity is paramount for your business. During the best of economic times, it’s a smart business practice. The quality of customer service and support can also have an impact on the productivity of a contact center.

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Contact Center Measurement Call Center Average Handle Time 74

NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. So, what are the top metrics you should be looking at?

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Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Contact Center 55

ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is the purpose of customer experience management? Customer experience. This is why customer experience management, meaning a process of tracking customer expectations and undertaking relevant actions, has become one of the focus points of businesses across different industries. ViiBE Blog.

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Customer Experience Management CEM Customer Experience Management 52

Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

In 2013, Oracle conducted a research study among executives regarding the state of their customer experience initiatives. While I’m hopeful a lot has changed in the past 8 years, I fear it hasn’t as organizations continue to struggle with integrating customer and employee experience strategies fully into their DNA.

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Connections Average Handle Time Customer Experience Contact Center 59

Win the Customer

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, providing exceptional customer service is no longer just an option; it’s a necessity. To ensure consistently high levels of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, many organizations turn to Six Sigma methodologies. What are the most common customer complaints or issues?

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Customer Service Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Exceptional Customer Service 52

Playvox

JANUARY 24, 2022

Delivering exceptional customer experiences is the new competitive advantage. While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX, it’s also all too easy to assume that the experiences your contact center delivers are up to par simply because you are handling interactions efficiently.

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Contact Center Measurement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 88

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

If you are a call center manager, you likely ask these questions on a regular basis. Below is a list of call center metrics you should look at to improve not only your efficiency, but also your quality and outcomes. Quality scores indicate the level of performance your agents display in their interactions with a customer.

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Metrics Net Promoter Score Average Handle Time Call Center 48

Magellan Solutions

MARCH 5, 2023

As a business expands, it often needs to broaden its product lines and services just to meet the increasing demands of its customers. Among them are customer expectations, performance metrics, issues with the service, performance levels, and abandonment rate. Average Handle Time How soon can you close a ticket?

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Average Handle Time Telecommunications Metrics Return on Investment 98

Talkdesk

JULY 16, 2019

What is Performance Management? Call Center Performance Management is a program, generally led by a contact center operations manager, dedicated to calculating and improving the performance of contact center agents. That’s where leveraging contact center performance management software can help. The answer is both.

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Call Center Management Average Handle Time Contact Center 43

Ecrion

JULY 17, 2019

Ask five people what defines “good customer service” and you’ll likely get five different answers. With so many touchpoints along the customer journey – from initial sale to monthly invoices to product support – evaluating how your business is doing with respect to customer service can be daunting.

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Metrics Customer Service Call Center Net Promoter Score 55

Magellan Solutions

MAY 16, 2024

Deloitte believes using an outsourced call center is vital to delivering exceptional customer experiences. An outsourced call center can be your secret weapon for delivering exceptional customer experiences. Explore outsourced call center pricing and discover how to improve customer service while maximizing cost-effectiveness.

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Call Center Average Handle Time ROI Omnichannel 52

COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, we discussed the importance of a well-designed scorecard in our blog, Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management. Striking the perfect balance in a scorecard is essential for maximizing its effectiveness as a robust performance management tool. quality, service, etc.).

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Metrics Average Handle Time Definition Measurement 71

Eptica

JULY 25, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI Why traditional VoC metrics don’t deliver the insight you need to succeed. However, often these only provide topline data, such as Net Promoter Score or CSAT metrics. Published on: July 25, 2018.

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Net Promoter Score Metrics Insights Average Handle Time 50

Playvox

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A remote work location requires a different mindset from contact center management — and a distinct set of guidelines. To make remote or hybrid work a success in your customer service center, setting a strong policy is a must. Even if you do have one, now is a good time to revisit it and make sure it covers everything it should.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time 2022 Government 74

Call Experts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A 24-hour customer service number can be a great asset to any business. It gives customers the confidence and support to call at any time and address their issues promptly and professionally. Today, customer service is a necessity for any business. In this article, we will dive into customer service. Did you know?

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Customer Service Average Handle Time Customer Retention Metrics 52