IVR
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Self-Service in the age of AI
Posted on February 12, 2020 in AI • Artificial Intelligence • Call Center Tools • Chat • Contact Center • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience • Help Desk • IVR
Tags: #artificialintelligence• #callcenter• #callcentre• #cctr• #contactcenter• #contactcentre• #custexp• #custserv• #Cx• AI• artificial intelligence• Colin Taylor• Customer Experience• Customer Service Consulting• Self Service• WFM
By Colin Taylor Self-service has been employed for more than 30 years to allow customers to serve themselves. This has been a mixed blessing, while many of us value the time savings versus waiting endlessly in a queue for the answer to a simple question and to gain a single piece of information, we all […]
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Waiting in Queue Doesn’t Have to be Painful
Posted on March 19, 2019 in abandon rate • Best Practices • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support • IVR • IVR • Quality
By Peg Ayers When my father passed away, I spent hours in queue, waiting for help from a variety of companies and agencies that should be providing service to those who call. In fact, they did all eventually provide the required service (except for one government agency that proved so difficult to reach, I gave […]
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Calculating Average Handle Time in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs
Posted on January 03, 2018 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • IVR • IVR • Metrics
By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Average Handle Time: The average time spent handling a contact with a customer, which may be a call, email, chat or any kind of request. The total handle time includes not only the time that an agent spends directly communicating with the customer but also time spend […]
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Calculating Service Level in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs
Posted on December 12, 2017 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • IVR • IVR • Metrics • Service Level
By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Service Level: The percentage of calls answered within a set threshold. Note: Service level applies to live contacts so the same definition can be used for other channels such as Chat or SMS. Other channels such as email, fax and even social media are measured based on […]
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