Evolving the Contact Center into a Data-Driven Brand Guardian

Evolving the Contact Center into a Data-Driven Brand Guardian

Bad customer experiences (CXs) still happen every day in contact centers because most brands are not actively investing in creating better ones. So, when...
Revolutionizing Customer Service

Revolutionizing Customer Service

As the world becomes increasingly digital, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way businesses interact with their customers. AI has established...
How to Optimize Conversations and Augment Customer Value

How to Optimize Conversations and Augment Customer Value

Just as contact center teams have begun to adapt to remote and hybrid environments, they are confronting a new set of challenges among them:...
How to Put Bots to Work

How to Put Bots to Work

“Come with me if you want to live” —The Terminator You’ve probably watched The Terminator featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and ever since then associated robots with...
Looking (ChatGPT) 4-Ward

Looking (ChatGPT) 4-Ward

Earlier this year, OpenAI announced a new iteration of their viral AI (artificial intelligence) model: ChatGPT-4. When ChatGPT-3 was initially announced, in November 2022,...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in October

Our top 5 blog posts in October are comprised of a very diverse set of topics. This month, we cover everything from our personality...
Keeping the CX Chain

Keeping the CX Chain

Supply chain chaos continues to be in the headlines. We’ve seemingly seen it all: logjammed ports, inventory pileups in warehouses, shortages of raw materials...
Getting the Most From Your Chatbots

Getting the Most From Your Chatbots

Chatbots, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), are becoming a popular and essential application in contact centers by swiftly, accurately, and cost-effectively handling, and helping...
The ChatGPT Revolution?

The ChatGPT Revolution?

For the past several months the technology conversation has been dominated by the emergence of ChatGPT, first GPT-3, then GPT-3.5, and most recently (at...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in September

This month, our readers have strongly focused on moving forward in our new hybrid/remote work environments. Rama enlightens us on how video technologies can...
How to Manage Telecom Fraud

How to Manage Telecom Fraud

As worrisome as cybersecurity may be, it’s just one of the many threats facing contact centers, and perhaps least understood among them would be...
Understanding GigCX

Understanding GigCX

There have been considerable conversations about the Gig Economy and gig working i.e., freelance, on-demand, over the past few years. But what is gig...
Delivering Awesome Customer Experiences–Even From Home

Delivering Awesome Customer Experiences–Even From Home

The past few years have been turbulent for the customer experience (CX) industry. It all started with the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced three million...
Are Gig Economy Workers the Next Agents?

Are Gig Economy Workers the Next Agents?

Like nearly every industry, today’s contact centers are facing a labor shortage. The Great Resignation and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have changed...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in August

Jacobi heads up August's Top 5 Blog Posts with a plan for how to combat the contact center concentration crisis caused by excessive background...
Going Home for Talent

Going Home for Talent

In 2020, the sudden shift to work-from-home (WFH) status for contact center employees felt chaotic and temporary. In 2021 it became a necessary, but...
How AI Can Combat Staffing Challenges

How AI Can Combat Staffing Challenges

Forecasting economic futures is challenging, but business success depends on it. The U.S. economy ended 2022 on a sustained strong note. Payrolls continued to...
Hearing the Need for Audio Quality

Hearing the Need for Audio Quality

The call center industry is facing a concentration crisis, with background noise levels exacerbating stress and limiting productivity in the workplace. When IRIS Audio...
Contact Center Pipeline Top 5 Blog Posts

Top 5 Posts in July

This month, the top question on our readers' minds is this: Will Chatbots Replace the Need for Contact Centers? Jump into our top article...
Chatbots

Will Chatbots Replace the Need for Contact Centers?

Goodbye call centers! This was recently sent to me by someone who questioned that call centers may be going away. It feels like chatbots may...