Avaya at a Crossroads

Avaya at a Crossroads

Ed. Note: Avaya has long been a leading supplier of contact center solutions with a large customer base and a history going back to...
Moving Forward: What Will 2026 Bring For Contact Centers?

Moving Forward: What Will 2026 Bring For Contact Centers?

Change is the norm in contact centers. There are the customer issues, and, depending on the center, customer sales opportunities. Rarely is one day...
The Road Ahead for Auto Finance CX

The Road Ahead for Auto Finance CX

Buying a vehicle is arguably the second most important and largest purchase an individual can make, after buying a home. And, like purchasing a...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in December

Dina begins our Top 5 by delving into the benefits of cross-industry benchmarking. She provides insights on how and where to begin, ways benchmarking...
Why Contact Centers Can’t Afford to Wait

Why Contact Centers Can’t Afford to Wait

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a detailed piece on AI voice agents poised to revolutionize customer service. The article paints a picture of...
Improving Customer Engagement Amid Uncertainty

Improving Customer Engagement Amid Uncertainty

Despite a rise in consumer spending in April driven by consumers stocking goods ahead of potential price increases due to tariffs, some industry experts...
The New Era of WFM

The New Era of WFM

Welcome to workforce management’s (WFM’s) new era! It’s a tremendous and opportunistic time in which WFM solutions are being used to build employee engagement...
The Hidden Sales Team in Your Call Center

The Hidden Sales Team in Your Call Center

For years, the idea of turning inbound customer service agents into salespeople has been met with resistance, hesitation, and in many cases, failure. And...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in November

To kick off November's top 5, Sharon guides us on how to meet digital-first customer expectations by creating a digital engagement landscape. Next, Jennifer...
Rethinking Training and Coaching

Rethinking Training and Coaching

Contact center training and coaching methods and tools are undergoing both a technological transformation and a rethink of how best to help leadership and...
From Hearing to Listening

RESEARCH: From Hearing to Listening

For CX and contact center leaders looking to turn customer conversations into strategic business advantage, the time to act is now. Despite being rich in...
AI Is Coming to Your Contact Center

AI Is Coming to Your Contact Center

In light of the AI Stargate project and it’s $500 billion privately-funded initiative, it is worth reflecting on a recent study that looked at...
Using AI to Create Super Agents

Using AI to Create Super Agents

One of AI’s strongest capabilities lies in its ability to identify patterns in large and unstructured datasets. Tasks that are core to the delivery...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in October

Welcome to October's Top 5 Blog Posts. To begin, Pablo explains how to successfully implement AI in our centers, where the first big step...
Doubling Down on Digitization

Doubling Down on Digitization

For decades, the call center has been the heart of customer service beyond the in-branch or in-store experience. As new digital options to interact...
AI Agents and Human Agents – Better Together?

AI Agents and Human Agents – Better Together?

AI is well on its way to transforming the contact center, but no more so right now than with Agentic AI. I was the...
Making Connections Amidst Disruption

Making Connections Amidst Disruption

We appear to be in “the Age of Disruption”: in society, commerce, government policies, environment, and technology, notably AI like Agentic AI. As a, if...
Are You Ready for Bots to Call?

Are You Ready for Bots to Call?

Tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are racing to give their AI agents real “agency”: the ability to reason, plan, and act on...
How To Avoid Repeats…Repeats…

How To Avoid Repeats…Repeats…

If there’s anything a customer hates, it’s when a company disrespects their time. There are many ways this can happen. But in customer experience...
The Journey to the New World of AI

The Journey to the New World of AI

In an era where AI is reshaping the landscape of customer service and personalization, the industry is undergoing a profound transformation to adapt to...