Tag: Contact Centres

When Gen Z Speaks, Contact Centres Should Listen

Contact centres are staffed by dedicated professionals from across the generational spectrum. According to a recent study, 86% of Gen Z workers—currently the youngest demographic slice—say a sense of purpose is essential to job satisfaction, and nearly half would turn...

AWS takes contact centres to the cloud

AWS wants businesses to abandon their contact centre infrastructure and move it to the cloud. To win them over, it has rolled out Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact centre product, which promises rapid setup, consumption-based pricing and AI-powered functionality. “Contact centres...

Dovetail streamlines CX reporting with AI

Dovetail is aiming to slash the time it takes organisations to identify customer experience (CX) problems, solve them and close the loop. By integrating artificial intelligence features throughout its product suite, the vendor claims to enable companies to rapidly compile...

4 myths about contact centre consumption-based billing that need to be debunked in 2024

You’ve just added a cloud service for your 500 headcount contact center, entering into a per-seat agreement with the vendor. While the seat-based model may appear to offer a flat recurring expense, it’s costing your organisation more than you realise....

Hallucinating chatbots and misleading information: how to bridge the AI  – human divide

Any business with a large customer base appears to be prioritising AI, automation and chats to improve customer service and overall customer experience. But is that what the customer wants? Christian Banhans, managing director of spusu, believes there is away to...

Contact centres at a crossroads: interview with Sat Sanghera

The contact centre has been the bedrock of customer experience strategy (and source of customer frustration) for the last 35 years. But will the advent of AI change all of that? What is the evolution of the contact centre now set...

Going off-script: getting conversational messaging right

Done well, conversational messaging should be engaging and user-friendly. Offering real-time back-and-forth dialogue between an organisation and individual customers via their channel of choice, it aims to provide immediate response, address specific needs, and foster a sense of rapport with every interaction.  This can be...

Four features of a good customer experience

Customers have expectations when they call for help, as they should. After all, they typically aren’t reaching out to your organisation for any other reason than to get their issue resolved or a question answered quickly.  Most customers would agree that...

Contact centre AI: Are you set up for success?

In this digital age where customer expectations are rapidly on the rise, it’s no surprise that the contact centre is undergoing an AI-powered transformation. But how are businesses implementing AI in their contact centres? What do contact centres need to have in...

Breaking barriers for women in leadership: 4 simple tools to enforce in your organisation

It is no secret that it is more difficult for women in business to achieve leadership positions within their organisations. There are several reasons for this, including gender bias, lack of opportunities, and work-life balance challenges. Women in leadership is a...