Best practices in SMS customer care

By mGage Did you know that 95% of people who had a bad experience are willing to give a brand another go if they know that their issue was dealt with correctly[1]? Customer care is extremely important for brands, and facilitating customer care over as many communication channels as possible is good business practice. Text […]
2020 Contact centre trends you need to know

Contact Centre executives have a lot on their plates. To thrive in 2020 and beyond, successful leaders must set their sights on strategic differentiation, not daily firefighting. No longer is it sufficient to react in-the-moment and call it good enough. The smartest (and most successful) contact centre leaders realise they need to keep looking forward […]
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: ContactOne

At ContactOne we believe in creating more successful conversations by using true multi-channel / omni-channel engagements that enable business-to-consumer (B2C) organisations to communicate with their customers via the customers’ channel of choice. Customers want to engage with a contact centre through their media of choice without unnecessary repetition of previous conversation elements…just one conversation across […]
Contact Centre Automation: Best Practices for 2020

By TTEC With the digitisation of contact centre operations, the status quo is being upended. Technological advances in robotic process automation (RPA), AI, and machine learning (ML) are literally changing the face of customer care. However, just because you can automate something in the contact centre doesn’t mean you should. To know which tasks to […]
WHITE PAPER: How AI Improves Customer Experience

By CallMiner Artificial intelligence is being used in many ways to improve customer experience, and innovative new use cases are emerging all the time. Enterprises must reimagine their operations, with automation and AI at the center of their strategy. This paper provides an overview of artificial intelligence, explains how AI fits into the spectrum of […]
3 Strategies to Connect the Experience – Get the QuandaGo eBook

Looking for insights on how to take your customer engagement to the next level? Get strategic guidance on how to connect the experience for your customers, agents and company with QuandaGo—The Connected Experience Platform. See the common causes of today’s CX disconnect, and how to overcome them by bringing your customer interactions, company knowledge and business […]
Banking on security: Keeping customer data secure in financial services

Simon Hill, Legal & Compliance, Certes Networks The protection of sensitive data in line with regulations, both for banks and other financial services organisations, is currently a big challenge. The way these organisations operate has changed dramatically in recent years, due mostly to the fact that financial institutions are not only heavily regulated by data privacy […]
GUEST BLOG: Demystifying Data Subject Access Requests

One year on from the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it is becoming clear that when it comes to Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR), organisations are confused regarding a desire to balance the rights of an individual with the needs of an organisation, John Potts (Head of DPO DSAR and Breach […]
GUEST BLOG: Whose data is it anyway? GDPR and the problem of data ownership

By Tony Pepper, CEO, Egress Software “GDPR is the new Y2K” was a phrase I heard multiple times during the first 12 months since its implementation. As the ICO continued to work through historical breaches under the Data Protection Act, there was certainly a sense that GDPR was all bark and no bite. Then its first anniversary was […]
GUEST BLOG: Creating an environment that motivates millennials

By Nazma Quarban, Chief Revenue Officer, Cognism By 2025, 75% of the global workforce will be made up of millennials; a shift that businesses need to prepare for in order to attract and retain workers. Forget about the misconceptions, millennial employees can be just as hardworking, spirited and loyal as any other generation; it’s all about how you […]