How GenAI-powered auto-call summarization increases ROI and improves workflows

Posted by Louise Gutenberg on Feb 28, 2024 10:30:00 AM

Lately, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the core of any customer-centric digital transformation. Strategies not centering around AI and automation are quickly neglected by executive leaders. While being a relatively new type of AI, Generative AI (GenAI) has quickly proven to be of crucial importance to leading organizations due to its ability to drive personalization and workflow efficiency at scale — leading to both cost savings and revenue increases. As explained by Gartner “By 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) application programming interfaces (APIs) or models, and/or deployed GenAI-enabled applications in production environments, up from less than 5% in 2023”.  While there’s an extensive list of benefits as it pertains to GenAI, this blog will cover only one of the simpler and yet impactful use cases for GenAI — auto-call summarizations. Continue reading to learn how and why GenAI-powered auto-call summarization helps increase agent productivity, drive process efficiency, and reduce operational costs.

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Topics: contact center, AI, digital transformation

Top 5 CX Strategies to Optimize Your Contact Center in 2024

Posted by Louise Gutenberg on Jan 9, 2024 9:00:00 AM

You've heard it before; "In today's competitive market, outstanding customer experience is more important than ever." According to IDC research, most customers will not interact with businesses that aren’t contextually aware. To stay competitive, you need to meet your customers' expectations by addressing their specific concerns in a personalized way. Chances are, however, simply adding cloud capabilities as an additional layer on top of your current communications platform will have minimal impact on your business if little thought is given to how these are weaved into your workflows and processes. For example, migrating from an on-premise contact center solution to a cloud offering is NOT in itself digitally transformative, unless it is part of a larger strategy that also explores how it will enhance existing processes and customer experiences for the better.

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Topics: CRM, contact center, best practices, contact center integrations, customer service trends, artificial intelligence, AI, automation, business transformation

6 Ways to Running your Most Successful Outbound Call Center Campaign

Posted by Guillaume Seynhaeve on Nov 22, 2016 12:30:38 PM

Technology has come a long way to enhance sales and marketing initiatives. From marketing automation tools, to customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, to predictive dialing solutions – the list goes on. And the results speak for themselves when you consider some agents have seen a 400% improvement in productivity and overall efficiency.

But what do those on the receiving end think of these enhanced outreach efforts?

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Topics: call center, contact center, outbound campaign, outbound call center, sales campaign, outbound sales

5 Ways to Decrease Call Abandonment

Posted by Rachel Brink on Oct 14, 2016 9:18:21 AM

When a customer ends a call before it is answered by a live agent, the call is considered to be “abandoned”. Typically the result of long hold times, call abandonment can be a serious problem within contact centers, as it is often correlated with low CSAT scores, decreased revenue, and lost business. Consider this- more than sixty percent of consumers will hang up if their call is not answered in under five minutes, and more than eighty percent if their call is now answered in under ten. And while every industry and business is different, abandonment rates above 5% are considered to be problematic. How can contact centers decrease their call abandon rate?

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Topics: customer service, call center, contact center, IVR, call abandonment

How to Reduce After Call Work Time (ACWT) in the Contact Center

Posted by Rachel Brink on Oct 7, 2016 10:31:37 AM

After call work (ACW), often referred to as “wrap-up” or “post call processing”, is a component of call handle time that consists of the tasks performed by agents after disconnecting a call, including taking call notes, selecting a disposition code, updating information in the CRM/helpdesk, scheduling follow-ups, and updating colleagues. While a completely necessary step to any customer engagement, time spent on after call work (ACWT) is something most call center supervisors look to shorten, as it reduces the number of resources available to take a call. Said to take as much as one-third to one-half as long as the duration of the call (subject to change depending on industry, agent expertise, and role), ACWT that is consistently outside of an organization’s projections can begin to significantly impact agent productivity, customer satisfaction, and revenue. So how can an organization reduce after call work time without impacting quality?

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Topics: call center, contact center, call center management, after call work

[Infographic] Overcoming the Challenges of Multichannel Customer Care

Posted by Rachel Brink on Sep 30, 2016 9:12:31 AM

When considering the fact that over seventy-five percent of consumers want to use three or more channels when communicating with an organization, it quickly becomes clear that multichannel customer care is no longer simply a means of competitive differentiation for businesses—it is an absolute necessity. Playing a significant role in both customer satisfaction and retention, multichannel is paving the way for the future of customer service. But as channels and data continue to grow, organizations are facing challenges delivering on the expectations of their customers. In fact, only 11% of consumers strongly agree that companies are effectively converging digital, mobile, social, and traditional channels. How can businesses overcome the challenges of multichannel customer care? Check-out our recent infographic for tips and best practices!

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Topics: customer service, contact center, multichannel, multichannel customer care, multichannel customer service

Artificial Intelligence and Customer Service- Oil and Water?

Posted by Rachel Brink on Aug 12, 2016 9:27:09 AM

The customer service space has undoubtedly evolved over the past several years, and the momentum is not expected to slow down as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance. AI-powered voice recognition software—known to the customer service space as the “virtual agent”—has already made its way into many of today’s contact centers, replacing live agents to assist clients with a variety of tasks and inquiries. Coupled with the proliferation of messaging apps, many are also beginning to see the development of chatbots—software programs that use messaging as the interface through which to carry out any number of tasks, from checking an account balance, to making a reservation, to helping users buy a pair of shoes. Virtual assistant startup, Interactions, recently secured an additional $56 million in funding, indicating that the trend is certainly picking up speed.

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Topics: customer service, contact center, self-service, virtual agents, artificial intelligence

Are walls truly falling in the contact center space?

Posted by Rachel Brink on Jul 22, 2016 10:59:40 AM

As the technology used to power contact centers has become more advanced, organizations around the globe are beginning to form a less rigid definition of “center”, enabling a large percentage of their agents to work remotely, or “work from home”. They are also increasingly relying on multiple sites for their customer engagement initiatives. In fact, just a short twelve months back, 53% of respondents managed customer engagements through one or zero contact center, a number that has since fallen to 51%, and is predicted to shrink to 39% in twelve months. Interestingly enough, the number of contact centers with more than five locations is steadily decreasing—while 16% had more than five locations twelve months ago, only 14% do I the present, and only 13% will in twelve months. The sweet spot appears to be in the 2-5 range.

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Topics: call center, contact center, remote agents, work from home, call center agent

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