Contact Center Pipeline Blog

Although there is some difference of opinion about exactly what the term “work-life balance” means, Dolly Parton, in her classic comedy “9 to 5,”...

While digital transformation and technologies like chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) remain top of mind for improving and innovating customer service processes, many companies...

It jumped out at me as big news: Lack of and/or bad desktop tools took the #1 spot on our challenges list for 2019....

It’s 2019: Your customers are going to expect immediate communication and results. At one time, sure, this seemed like a lot to ask for....

Coaching agents is arguably the most critical responsibility for frontline contact center management. Effective coaching is known to foster agent engagement, reinforce and expand...

If you’ve been lucky enough to be in the audience when an engaging speaker hits the stage, you know that his or her first...

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty frustrated by clients, prospects and some contact center managers who think that the only reason agents...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current unemployment rate is the lowest in 48 years. When the economy is strong and contact...

The idiom “off to a flying start” is defined as “a start or beginning of anything, as characterized by the participant’s vigor and enthusiasm.”...

Those chatbots that pop up on websites, apps or social media platforms may mimic human interaction, but they aren’t there to replace humans. When...

Contact centers are complex. Just look at the range of topics we cover in our May issue of Contact Center Pipeline. There are so...

Hoarding data has been the standard practice for most businesses for years. Whether it’s customer data, email, survey data, presentations, reports, zip files, log...