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Contact Centre GDPR Compliance: 3 Simple Steps

Contact centres are challenging places. There is certainly plenty to think about with the rising cost of salaries, managing schedules to meet customer demand, looking after staff wellbeing, PCI DDSS compliance, and now the added requirements of GDPR (General Data...

Quiz: How Well do YOU Know Your Contact Centre?

Daniel Ord is the Founder of OmniTouch International, and one of the global Contact Centre industry’s most influential figures.  With over 30 years of experience under his belt, Daniel is bringing his expertise to a wider audience with a new Masterclass...

‘So, how did YOU get into the Contact Centre Industry?’

Daniel Ord is the Founder of OmniTouch International, and one of the global Contact Centre industry’s most influential figures.  With over 30 years of experience under his belt, Daniel is bringing his expertise to a wider audience with a new Masterclass...

CX and Contact Centres: What’s Changing in 2019?

In 2018 it was predicted that voice would soon be dead and that the only sounds heard in contact centres would be keyboards – or chatbots controlling the Customer Experience (CX). However, this prediction missed one critical factor: the customer. With...

Zen Management: Navigating Your Business Calmly in a Crisis

Avid TV watchers may remember Mad Men’s Don Draper thumbing through a copy of real-life poet Frank O’Hara’s book Meditations in an Emergency between regular crises at his often chaotic ad agency. While your business may be free of the...

Fixing Broken Processes in the Contact Centre

Go back little more than a decade and most contact centres followed the traditional model of being office-based with headphone-wearing operators packed together like battery hens answering fixed line phone calls on weekdays between 9-5. This version of the contact centre effectively...

The Technological Touch: Securing the Future of the Call Centre

In an age of self-serve, robotics-driven Customer Experience, many have predicted the demise of the call centre and instead, expounded a vision where 100 percent of customer interactions are self-service and driven by AI. But contrary to what the doomsayers...

Three Reasons for High Turnover in the Contact Centre

“When I grow up, I want to work in a call centre,” said no one, ever. For anyone that’s worked in a call centre, you’ll know the reality of telesales is a little less Wolf of Wall Street, more The...

Five Trends Driving Omni-Lingual Support in Contact Centres

The rise in digital technologies has broadened communications channels at a rapid pace – generating new ways of connecting with customers. Simultaneously, brands are striving to deliver the best customer experience (CX) and are increasingly looking to enable positive interactions...

Humans vs. Bots: The Future of Customer Experience in Call Centres

In today’s always-connected world, social-media-savvy, mobile consumers increasingly associate a brand with the digital experience that the brand offers them. Adopting an omni-channel customer experience strategy is only the first step towards meeting digital consumers’ expectations. Organisations need to rethink...