I want to take a moment to talk about something that concerns some people who are bringing Gamification—or considering it—into their call center workforce management. Badges. Ribbons. Medals. Those little icons on an agent’s portal that say “good job,” or “great job” or even “need improvement.” Some people think that, as a reward, they’re too...
The new year brings with it an old risk—falling behind the competition as your call center technology gets another year older and more outdated. Today’s technologies bring the most significant transformation in decades. It’s more important than ever that call centers protect market share and profitability by enhancing or upgrading their systems and software.
Your customer orders a shirt from your mobile app. She receives the wrong size. Now what? How does your omnichannel system respond? To answer that, I’m going to coin a couple of terms here—“results-aware omnichannel” and “interaction-aware omnichannel.” Spotlighting the difference between the two brings out the true potential of an omnichannel, and the unique...
A Software-Based Omnichannel As a technology matures, even in the early stages of that maturity, it gets smarter, smaller, streamlined. It also heads over to the software side of things. Software solutions—instead of software built to run on a hardware solution—are more versatile, easier to grow and evolve, easier to adapt, and a longer-value investment....