Digital changes everything

Organizations today handle interactions and transactions across a wider variety of communication channels than ever before. Adoption of digital channels, from email and chat to SMS and social media channels, has skyrocketed over the last year, placing new demands on support, service and sales teams.

As digital channels proliferated, they brought with them significant new challenges for workforce management. The old ways of collecting data, calculating staffing needs and generating schedules – then doing it all again as conditions change – no longer suffice when dealing with digital channels.

In a marked contrast to the past, work today doesn’t necessarily flow sequentially, in a continuous stream of work handled by a single employee. Instead, it’s characterized by a series of simultaneous interactions, interruptions and more.

Here’s what you need to consider to keep your most common workforce management processes – data integrity and acquisition, staff requirement calculation, schedule optimization and change management – running smoothly. Download the guide here.

For me, the contact centre is the most valuable function in a business. There are two main reasons why this is the case. The first is that the contact centre, as the hub of all customer interactions, is also at the centre of all the insights a business gathers. The second, more prosaic reason, is that customers still want to forge human connections with the brands they do business with. To make this vision a reality, however, we need to reverse the recent alarming slump in customers’ perception of customer service quality. Let’s take a look at how.

The Contact Centre Renaissance: Why Human Connection Matters More Than Ever

For me, the contact centre is the most valuable function in a business. There are two main reasons why this is the case. The first is that the contact centre, as the hub of all customer interactions, is also at the centre of all the insights a business gathers. The second, more prosaic reason, is that customers still want to forge human connections with the brands they do business with. To make this vision a reality, however, we need to reverse the recent alarming slump in customers’ perception of customer service quality. Let’s take a look at how.

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The traditional top-down leadership model that has applied in contact centres since forever, is no longer fit for purpose. Because today’s contact centre is driven by the need for an agile, responsive service delivery, the thinking goes that leadership must exist at every level of the organisation – as close as possible to where decisions need to be made.

Empowering Contact Centre Leadership at Every Level

The traditional top-down leadership model that has applied in contact centres since forever, is no longer fit for purpose. Because today’s contact centre is driven by the need for an agile, responsive service delivery, the thinking goes that leadership must exist at every level of the organisation – as close as possible to where decisions need to be made.

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New OFCOM regulations designed to hamper the ability of overseas spam callers to ‘spoof’ UK phone numbers could also impact legitimate offshore and outsourced contact centres.

Navigating The New OFCOM Rules For UK Businesses Calling From Offshore

New OFCOM regulations designed to hamper the ability of overseas spam callers to ‘spoof’ UK phone numbers could also impact legitimate offshore and outsourced contact centres.

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