Category: Customer Experience

First Contact Resolution: The key Measure in Contact Centres

There are many common customer service metrics in place in contact centres: CSAT, NPS, FRT, CES, AHT, FCR, the list goes on. Some are more valid than others and some are simply outdated and add confusion and conflict to both the...

Emotional intelligence and CX

We’ve all read so much about emotion in Customer Experience – we see articles about defining the emotions we want customers to experience with our brand and we watch videos emphasising the importance of recognising the emotional state of our...

How AI-Driven Contact Can Revolutionise Your Customer Relationships

It used to be that when someone said “AI”, images of sci-fi films came to mind. Nowadays, the effect is more prosaic: it’s become de rigeur to use AI as shorthand for “business wonder cure”. When we hear “AI”, we know we’re...

Ask Ian: How do we Combine Digital and Brick-and-Mortar for the Best Customer Experience?

Customer Experience specialist Ian Golding, author of Customer What: The Honest and Practical Guide to Customer Experience, writes for Customer Experience Magazine offering expert insight to help businesses improve their CX offering.  To ask Ian a question on how to boost the...

Capita Appoints new Customer Management and People Solutions Leads

UK Customer Experience Awards finalist Capita has appointed new leads for its Customer Management and People Solutions divisions. The business services leader – which has been shortlisted for a number of categories at this year’s awards finals in London this October, including Team...

Contact Centre GDPR Compliance: 3 Simple Steps

Contact centres are challenging places. There is certainly plenty to think about with the rising cost of salaries, managing schedules to meet customer demand, looking after staff wellbeing, PCI DDSS compliance, and now the added requirements of GDPR (General Data...

Using business intelligence to get meaningful customer insights

Businesses have been drowning in data for years, and in the CX space, we’ve developed some bad habits, collecting information without any clear purpose and sending out surveys to ask for feedback at every turn. Fortunately, we have got better...

Revealed: UK Firms are Overrating Their Customer Experience

A global research study has found that businesses in the UK and elsewhere are overrating their Customer Experience, and are underperforming when it comes to providing omnichannel communication. The 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark report polled contact centre leaders in...

Digitising the Instore Experience

There’s no denying the fact we now live in a one-click society, where consumers are used to the comfort of buying almost any product they want with a click of button, and have it delivered to their home or place...

Transform Your CX With a Single View of the Customer

Brands are working harder than ever to enhance Customer Experience as people increasingly demand a streamlined and immediate service from the companies they interact with. Research from Dimension Data shows that 58 percent of consumers would be willing to spend...