Optimizing the ASR Experience
You ask Siri if you need your umbrella, and she tells you it looks like rain. You ask Alexa to play some jazz, and...
Five Windows into the Future of the Contact Center
The contact center industry has had to evolve with seismic shifts over the past year and a half. Businesses everywhere shifted en masse to...
Customer Experience Perfection Is Easy to Achieve
A common viewpoint in our industry today is that getting a group of agents to offer a consistently exceptional customer experience is a complex...
Treat Technology Partnerships Like a Marriage!
In 1988 I wrote an industry article, titled “Life with Multiple Vendors”, which appeared in the Service Level Newsletter, published by ICMI.
The message in...
Contact Center Pipeline Magazine: Inside Our April 2022 Issue
Did you think in March 2020 that we would still be talking about adjusting to the “new normal” and figuring out the best path...
Top 5 Posts in March
Hybrid, remote, or fully in-person? This month, our top blog posts are all about how to move forward in the new normal. Our authors...
The Future of Contact Centers?
Despite their increasingly important role in attracting and retaining customers and revenues, contact centers continue to face high agent turnover.
Yet to keep delivering...
Employee Experience in the Contact Center
Contact centers have long emphasized a strategy that is customer first, and for good reason. Delivering an outstanding customer experience is essential to driving...
Refining Remote Working
Going remote was just the beginning. If 2020 was about transitioning and uncertainty, consider 2021 the year of acceptance and innovation as contact centers...
A Second Chance to Stop the Great Resignation
According to the U.S. Labor Department, a record 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August, 2021 and experts predict this trend won’t slow...
The Tone of Voice is Everything
At my first call center job, I learned the ropes and learned the most that I could from my trainers, team leaders, mentors, and...
Legal and Regulatory Developments In 2021—And What to Expect In 2022
We entered 2021 with a new U.S. administration and fresh ideas about the regulatory role of the federal government.
Based on President Joe Biden’s...
The Operational Data Your Wallboard Solution Needs
Data is key to running any successful business. The more information you have about your team, marketplace, and customers, the more effective you will...
The New Broom Sweeps Clean
The idiom The New Broom Sweeps Clean is great for the New Year since it essentially means to get rid of the old and...
Overcoming CX Labor Obstacles
In restaurant and shop windows across every North American city hastily handwritten signs are appearing saying “The whole world is short-staffed. Please be kind...
Making Delight Intentional
Contact centers have traditionally focused on solving problems and handling questions. Efficiency has been the watchword.
But new research suggests that spending a little...
Executive Interview with LiveVox Founder & CEO Louis Summe
Those who have been in the contact center industry for a while may recognize LiveVox as a leading outbound dialer. But if you haven’t...
Working on Workforce Issues
It is a good news/troubling news story for contact centers. How they and their supplier partners plan and respond will help determine how well...