Articles by
Donna Fluss
More advanced workforce management empowers employees and improves CX. (Featured on SmartCustomerService.com.)
Posted April 25, 2024
Contact center WFM solutions must include adaptive intraday capabilities to meet changing demands in real time.
Posted April 04, 2024
Agents are commonly only guilty of doing what they were trained, or constrained, to do.
Posted February 08, 2024
Customer journey analytics are instrumental in capturing, analyzing, and measuring employee and system performance at every customer touchpoint.
Posted December 21, 2023
The ability to analyze live conversations as they occur helps the customer and employee experience. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted November 10, 2023
We are only at the beginning of what generative AI and other AI technologies are expected to contribute to contact centers and customer service organizations during the next few years.
Posted October 26, 2023
Real-time guidance applications are essential for contact centers as they empower agents with the right customer information and best practices.
Posted September 22, 2023
There are plenty of potential use cases for contact center-as-a-service solutions, and many of them are not the traditional ones.
Posted August 04, 2023
For AI and agents to work together effectively, the data fed into the models needs to be accurate and up to date.
Posted June 29, 2023
Companies have to expand their perspective of what and who is involved in the customer service experience.
Posted May 19, 2023
AI is helping contact center managers better meet employee needs and preferences, reducing costs and attrition rates.
Posted April 07, 2023
Contact centers need a new name that better reflects the value and contributions they make to companies and their customers.
Posted February 24, 2023
These innovations are ready to be rolled out and are positioned to help contact center managers achieve their departmental and corporate objectives. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted February 10, 2023
These solutions can be a company's eyes and ears on both customers and employees. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted January 18, 2023
Artificial intelligence underpins all the technology advancements that will help companies improve the customer experiences they deliver.
Posted October 27, 2022
Company cultures need to foster an environment where contact center agents feel a sense of pride and joy in what they do every day.
Posted September 01, 2022
An artificial intelligence framework will be needed to monitor and optimize the performance of technology, people, and processes in the contact center of the future.
Posted June 30, 2022
Some customer service challenges have existed for decades, but companies are finally recognizing them and starting to explore ways to address them.
Posted May 05, 2022
Prior reasons for not adopting video for customer service have slipped away in the past few years.
Posted April 14, 2022
With uncertainty still looming, contact centers should continue the staffing policies that have worked so far.
Posted February 24, 2022
Companies that want to hire and retain great agents must listen and respond to their needs and create a more flexible and engaging work environment.
Posted December 10, 2021
Organizations need to take a fresh look at their self-service offerings and put in motion a technology refresh.
Posted October 15, 2021
The right tools can have a positive impact on customer experience and the success of a brand.
Posted September 03, 2021
New-generation workforce management solutions offer real-time capabilities and artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting.
Posted July 12, 2021
Supreme Court ruling is a necessary, but only a first step in reforming the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Posted May 21, 2021
The contact center WFM market is transforming to address the needs of the digital generation
Posted April 01, 2021
Contact centers are making the right moves to sustain themselves for the long-term.
Posted January 29, 2021
If there's one thing we've observed, it's that business agility has become a requirement for success today.
Posted November 19, 2020
Consumers increasingly want to self service, but companies need to let them do so on the channels of their choice.
Posted September 24, 2020
The right metrics around customer experience measure both explicit and implicit data throughout the full customer journey.
Posted July 31, 2020
Customer journey analytics can help companies build effective strategies that engage customers cost-effectively throughout their lifecycles.
Posted June 05, 2020
Clearly, using work-at-home employees would be the safest way to staff contact centers during this pandemic. If companies aren't properly set up to handle this scenario, starting a WAH program will be tough but not impossible.
Posted March 19, 2020
Include planning for pandemics like the coronavirus in your disaster recovery/business continuity plans.
Posted February 14, 2020
Companies need to move into omnichannel service offerings to truly undergo needed digital transformations.
Posted November 14, 2019
Call tracking improves marketing effectiveness while making the contact center an essential corporate contributor.
Posted August 16, 2019
Traditional key performance indicators need to be combined with new technologies, like customer journey analytics, to allow companies to anticipate and meet customer needs.
Posted May 30, 2019
The short answer is yes, because AI-based systems improve quality, productivity, and the overall customer journey.
Posted April 04, 2019
Traditional QA systems have gotten more robust, but companies aren't using them.
Posted October 26, 2018
AI is not going to take over the world, but it will improve worker productivity in the next few years.
Posted August 24, 2018
Bots will soon outnumber human employees, but that doesn't mean higher unemployment rates.
Posted June 29, 2018
Even with a cloud deployment, you can't expect the vendor to do everything all of the time.
Posted April 27, 2018
An apology can de-escalate a bad situation, but it has to be sincere.
Posted February 23, 2018
Bots and IVAs aren't necessarily mutually exclusive; they perform different functions, so they can coexist.
Posted December 15, 2017
IVAs, RPA, and biometrics form an alphabet soup that can really save contact centers time and effort.
Posted September 29, 2017
IVAs have much greater potential than IVRs, but vendors still have work to do to move the technology beyond the hype stage.
Posted July 21, 2017
Consumers have clear channel preferences when it comes to specific issues with companies.
Posted May 05, 2017
2017 is expected to be a better year for customers as companies prioritize better service.
Posted January 27, 2017
Using video in the contact center extends the sense of connection between customers and agents.
Posted November 11, 2016
End users should review their contracts when their contact center system vendors are acquired.
Posted September 16, 2016
Speech analytics, when combined with other analytics types, can provide real benefits in real time.
Posted August 12, 2016
The technology is 35 years old and it needs to change for the millennial workforce.
Posted April 08, 2016
Omnichannel customer experience environments are now expected. Here's some advice to get you started.
Posted January 08, 2016
Customer journey analytics holds great promise for improving customer interactions.
Posted October 16, 2015
Customer service is at a pivotal point. Business as usual is not satisfactory for customers. The following trends are going to play an increasingly important role in contact centers during the next few years.
Posted June 19, 2015
Preference management solutions can be used to drive proactive customer care initiatives.
Posted March 30, 2015
Think you offer great customer service? Maybe not. Customer journey analytics lets you know if you're on the right track.
Posted January 14, 2015
Back-office WFO has the potential to deliver on unfulfilled promises of business process management.
Posted July 16, 2014
Employees can be among the most valuable and powerful investments managers can make. Are you doing all you can to engage them?
Posted March 05, 2014
From improving the customer journey to reducing operating costs, here's a look at the top trends in contact center spending in 2014.
Posted February 03, 2014
Speech analytics gives companies the power to alter the outcome of a call. Although these applications are still immature, their potential is great.
Posted October 30, 2013
If you haven't updated your outbound dialing solutions recently, take a look at the current generation of applications. Cloud-based outbound solutions and an increasing number of inbound contact center infrastructure solutions have added preview, progressive, predictive dialing, and blending.
Posted August 08, 2013
Speech analytics is a sophisticated enterprise application that can provide valuable insights, but it takes a great deal of effort and the right people to make it work.
Posted April 30, 2013