Tag: key performance indicators

The Pipeline blog has been heating up all month! Our most-read topics in July included blog posts on aligning agent metrics with key customer...

Contact center days are jam-packed with activity. It's easy to lose sight of the thread that should tether contact center performance metrics to what...

Vacations are dwindling down. Schools are ramping up. We’re planning our agent celebrations for Customer Service Week next month. It is a busy time...

Devil’s advocate, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, it means: “One who argues against a cause or position either for the sake...

The April 2016 issue of Contact Center Pipeline is available online. Here is what you’ll find inside: FEATURE ARTICLES Employee Advocacy By Susan Hash An empowered and impassioned...

Effective data use can separate the preeminent contact centers from the rest of the pack. As you work to leverage your center’s data, consider...

If, by chance, you are unfamiliar with the phrase Net Promoter Score (NPS), it is a way of scoring customer loyalty based on the...

While the contact center environment has evolved a great deal over the past decades, some metrics have not. Many centers focus on metrics that...

We have a great many data points at our disposal in contact centers. The best ones, though, are not necessarily those that are the...

Wait a minute, if it’s 2015, shouldn’t we have flying cars by now? Much to the disappointment of Marty McFly from “Back to the...

Identifying the barriers that lead to a poor customer experience (and increased traffic to the call center) requires an enterprisewide review of customer touchpoints...