Lori Bocklund
Lori Bocklund is the Founder and President of Strategic Contact. With over 25 years of experience in the contact center industry, she brings an extensive knowledge of technologies, processes, and organizational structures to each client engagement and solves real business challenges. She's a widely published author and regular speaker at industry conferences. Lori is the 2015 recipient of the International Customer Management Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Opportunities for AI in the Contact Center
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is breaking the hype meter in the contact center industry. While it’s only in the early adopter stages, it appears to...
2018 Contact Center Technology Survey Reveals Critical Needs
Our 2018 contact center technology survey shows that some things never change, even in an era of massive change! It had been six years...
Volume Reduction Is a Multichannel Opportunity
Our annual challenges and priorities survey, as well as our project experience, show that high attrition, absence and adherence issues, and the uphill battle...
How to Get the Best Results from Your RFP
Request for Proposal. RFP. Frontline users and vendors alike let out a collective groan at the prospect of a long, cumbersome and painful process....
Good, Fast and Cheap! Can You Really Have It All?
The old saying, “Good, fast, cheap… pick two,” tells us we can’t have it all. But today’s low-cost contact center technology options send a...
Fast Implementation with Success
Look up “hasty” and you will find synonyms that convey speed and quickness next to others with less flattering connotations: injudicious, thoughtless, impulsive, and...
Is SIP Right for Your Contact Center?
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been around for many years and has become the de facto answer for both network trunking and endpoints, or...
Build Your Strategy for Authentication and Fraud Prevention
Optimizing authentication and preventing fraud are hot topics in the industry. Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) has been the approach for most centers until now;...
Cloud Ushers in “New Rules” for Technology Selection
Procurement processes are undergoing change in concert with the revolution ushered in by cloud solutions. Buyers want the benefits of advanced technology without the...
Fraud Prevention
“Bad guys” seem to be lurking around every corner these days. Whether you are a financial institution protecting people’s money and identities or are...
Building a Resilient Contact Center
In the era of “five nines” of reliability, contact center leaders didn’t worry too much about the resiliency of their technology: It was always...
Big Decisions Loom Beyond the “Cloud vs. Premise” Debate
Choices, choices, choices. They are great and yet overwhelming when considering platform replacement. Cloud-based vendors serve up their offerings as private (single tenant), public...
