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Using Technology to Provide Agility to Contact Agents

Contact agents’ work is often thought of as synonymous with the physical contact centre. So, when the British government announced a lockdown at the end of March and most businesses had to empty their offices, customer service was instantly disrupted. The...

Contact Centre Technology Solutions? Not the Silver Bullet to Fix Your CX Challenges

CCaaS (Contact Centre as a Service) AI, CX, Omnichannel, Unified Reporting, Automation, Analytics, Deflection, digital transformation…. The list of desirable jargon in the industry rumbles on in the minds of those chasing the ultimate transformation of their ‘Customer Experience’ and...

ContactEngine Inc. Board Welcomes Michael Beckley and Tarita Miller

A proactive conversational AI technology used by large corporations across industries, ContactEngine Inc. announced on 15 July the appointment of two new board members, Michael Beckley and Tarita Miller. Both Beckley and Miller have a proven track record in the technology...

Staying Connected in Times of Crisis: How Contact Centre Services are Keeping Human Interaction Alive

During these challenging times, every industry has had to evolve and react to rapid changes in customer behaviour. Contact centres have been at the forefront of this shift and have been faced with unprecedented call volumes. While the UK looks to...

Capita Wins Partnership For Transformation and Operation of Customer Contact Centre Services

UK Complaint Handling Awards winner Capita has signed a contract with Irish Water following a win on a public competitive tender process for the transformation and operation of Irish Water’s customer contact centre services. The contract is worth €10m a year...

GCXA 20 Two-gold Winner: Ejadah Asset Management Group

At this year’s Gulf Customer Experience Awards we celebrated best initiatives in the world of CX, honouring teams’ greatest achievements and encouraging businesses to strive for excellence. We had an opportunity to sit down with Ejadah Asset Management, a company winning...

Successful CRM Strategies and Organisational Behaviour Management

This article is co-authored by Edwin Best (below left), founder of The Best CRM, and Joost Kerkhofs (right), an entrepreneur and author specialising in Organisational Behavior Management (OBM), and the co-founder of OBM Dynamics, which offers globally recognised certification in OBM...

Contact Centre Superheroes Need Saving Too

Anyone who has worked in the complaint handling industry will tell you that like any job, there are good and bad days. What isn’t like most other jobs is the emotional weight placed on a complaint handler when they have...

Challenging the Status Quo: Can Removing Targets Improve Contact Centre Results?

Contact centres have become as synonymous with scripts and targets as meerkats are with price comparison websites. So what happens when you rewrite the rule book and take a completely different approach to customer service? CXM spoke with Caroline King, Director...

Sharpening Skills at the Contact Centre Masterclass

A fresh crop of eager professionals has benefited from the expert knowledge of CX and contact centre guru Daniel Ord at the latest High Performance Management for Inbound Contact Centres Masterclass. Delegates from across the UK arrived in London for the two-day...