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CRM
October 2012
Donna Fluss |
IVRs Get a Bad Rap There's no excuse for not investing in these systems.   |
CRM
May 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Like a Circle in a Spiral Making your interactive voice response system as user friendly as possible will help increase customer loyalty and keep costs down. |
CRM
May 2012
Michele Masterson |
Natural Language Understanding Grows Up The bar has been raised for technologies that not only hear, but understand too. |
CRM
February 2015
Leonard Klie |
The Hidden Sources of Poor Customer Service Interactions should be designed with the customer in mind. |
CRM
November 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Speech Recognition Leads to R&R Fluency Voice Technology helps a travel services company provide its customers with more communication choice. |
CRM
December 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Speak Up! Designing a speech-enabled IVR system is inherently complex and requires in-depth preparation. Here are eleven strategies to ensure that you're hearing your customers loud and clear. |
CRM
March 2007
Ian Jacobs |
Gethuman? Get Real. Arising from consumers' growing hostility toward interactive voice response systems, this new project's standard could work to deepen, not reduce, consumer dissatisfaction. |
CRM
January 2015
Leonard Klie |
In Customer Service, It's More Efficient to Be Effective Rushing customers off the phone might cut costs, but ignores the potential for greater value. |
CRM
April 2011
Leonard Klie |
IVR Personalization: Strike the Right Balance Too much familiarity can repel customers, so IVR designers must take pains to build the right systems. |
CRM
September 2014
Leonard Klie |
Call Handling Time Continues to Rise Sales and customer service calls take 16 percent longer today. |
CRM
May 1, 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Chatting Up Customers Down Under A telecommunications company combines speech with CTI and increases customer satisfaction, agent efficiency, and self-service adoption as a result. |
CRM
July 2015
Leonard Klie |
Conversational Computing Strives to Meet the 'Star Trek' Standard Speech technology, combined with artificial intelligence, will enable people to interact with machines in a natural way |
CRM
November 2012
Leonard Klie |
The New Measure of Customer Service Success Why some traditional performance metrics are wrong and what you need to evaluate now. |
CRM
September 13, 2011
Leonard Klie |
Nuance Builds Out Its Mobile Advantage Portfolio The new solutions are designed to steer customers to mobile smartphone apps for self-service. |
CRM
March 2013 |
CRM Service Awards: Service Elite Activision began to explore solutions that would give it the flexibility it needed to service its gamers in the channel of their choice. Last March, the company selected Salesforce.com Service Cloud and was able to roll out the product globally and across three of its contact centers within 90 days. |
CRM
February 2011
Leonard Klie |
A Gray Area Today's seniors can't be left out of IVR design decisions. |
CIO
July 1, 2003
John Edwards |
Smooth Talkers Speech integration technology gives customers and employees convenient access to back-end data. |
Inc.
October 2005
David H. Freedman |
What's Next: Service With a Smile. Really. How technology ruined customer service - and how three start-ups plan to rescue it. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Alice Dragoon |
CRM Wake-Up Call How to transform your call center from a budget drain into a source of competitive advantage. |
CRM
April 10, 2015
Mike Hennessy |
The Downside of Automated Responses Responsibility and strategy are key to using this growing technology. |
CRM
December 4, 2015
Gregory Pal |
Why Customer Service Is Marketing -- and How to Get It Right In today's marketplace, savvy businesses are using unique technologies to up the ante on customer experience across all channels -- which translates into customer retention and higher sales. |
CIO
June 1, 2006
Susannah Patton |
Answering the Call Everyone's had a bad experience with a call center. But now companies are investing in advanced technologies and at-home agents to connect with customers, not put them on hold. |
CRM
February 1, 2007
Walter Rolandi |
Decrease IVR Hang-Ups Want a more effective interactive voice response system? Here are a few rules that can help prevent customer loss. |
InternetNews
May 8, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Begins Testing Speech Server 2007 Microsoft today formally opened up a public beta test of the Microsoft Speech Server 2007, a significant upgrade to its voice recognition and telephony server with a host of new features and technologies. |
CRM
July 2003
David Myron |
In Beta: Replaying The Experience Nice Systems knows memory fades with time. That's why Nice introduced Nice Feedback, an IVR survey system that enables contact centers to obtain direct customer feedback immediately after a service call. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 29, 2006
Phil Britt |
Help Those Who Help Themselves Customer expectations are raising the bar for bank self-service. |
CRM
December 1, 2003
David Myron |
Speech Technology Begins to Realize Its Potential Vendor representatives discuss of the practicality of speech recognition in today's contact center. |
Bank Technology News
April 2002
David Rountree |
Phone Glitches Drive Consumers to Competition Banks, more than most companies, are likely to lose customers when service quality slips... |
CRM
October 2010
Koa Beck |
Anybody's Bot Virtual agents, deemed the new concierge of the Internet, help customers navigate through ever-increasing Web site complexities. |
CRM
November 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Avoiding the Speech Rec. Wreck Speech recognition has struggled to move into the mainstream, but these applications are picking up where touch tone IVR leaves off. |
CRM
April 2008
Jessica Tsai |
The 2008 CRM Service Awards: Rising Stars -- Spoken Communications Spoken Communications keeps callers from waiting aimlessly on the line, but it's waiting for a big customer to keep it in the limelight. |
CRM
May 2012
Leonard Klie |
In the Air Instead of on the Line A natural language-based IVR connects US Airways passengers to better service. |
CRM
May 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Making a Clear Connection Integrating your multichannel operations can seem like a near-impossible feat, but it doesn't have to be. Follow these strategies to ease your integration process and maximize your multichannel potential. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Jim Middlemiss |
CIO Challenge As more and more clients look to conduct transactions via electronic channels, investment management firms are improving their electronic servicing systems. Boosting online search capabilities and integrating call center systems and Web platforms can enhance self-service. |
CRM
April 1, 2007
Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: CSRs Are Inundated with Routine Customer Inquiries, Which Increases Wait Time and Reduces Agent Effectiveness. Tech Solution: Speech-enabled IVRs. Aspect Customer Self-Service... Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal... VoiceObjects 6... |
CRM
January 1, 2007
Kate Leggett |
The Informed Agent Customers are searching for a good service experience and will pay a premium to be assured of such service. Only when you have a receptive customer base can you be successful at marketing to them. Help drive customer loyalty with sophisticated knowledge retrieval methods. |
CRM
October 31, 2014
Kumaran Ponnambalam |
How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance Look beyond technology to serve your customers best. |
CRM
April 2005
Phillip Britt |
The 2005 Service Elite Awards The 2005 Service Elite awards in customer service in the following categories: Knowledge-Base Tools, Agent-Facing Universal Desktop, Quality Monitoring, Workforce Management, Speech Solutions, and Outsourcing Services. |
PHONE+
September 16, 2009
Lynn McCullough |
Agents Identify 7 Best Practices for Channel Managers Agents share their points of view on what can be done on a daily basis to ensure the best possible customer experience. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Tough Calls Insurance contact centers face a difficult challenge in serving multiple customers, including distributors and policyholders, with very different interests. To maximize satisfaction, carriers must design contact center functionality to fit unique customer needs. |
CRM
December 2010
Donna Fluss |
Speaking of Solid Payback Optimizing your interactive voice response system may require only a small investment |
CRM
March 2006
Coreen Bailor |
Keeping Balance in the Center Organizations no longer have to choose between efficiency and effectiveness as contact center technology evolves. If your contact center efforts are unbalanced, consider these five approaches to achieving service and efficiency equilibrium. |
CRM
February 2, 2004 |
Hot Seat: Self-Help Alters the Service Landscape As Web self-help grows in popularity among both customers and the companies that serve them, CRM magazine asks: Can Web self-help solutions enable companies to bring outsourced customer service efforts back in house? Why or why not? |
CRM
November 2011
Leonard Klie |
10 Ways to Rearchitect Your Contact Center Hiring, training, and technology are considered keys to raising the customer service standard. |
CRM
May 2013
Leonard Klie |
Toronto's Nerve Center Provides Easy Access Canada's largest city improves customer service with Toronto 311. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Maura K. Ammenheuser |
Loud and Clear To improve customer service, insurers are increasingly turning to speech-based technology, and away from call centers, to handle consumer questions. The familiar touch-tone systems may soon go the way of the rotary phone. |
CRM
June 2005
Bailor et al. |
100 Proven CRM Ideas, Part 2 90 bright ideas for your CRM strategy and 10 dim ones to avoid. Here are tips 51 through 100. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 31, 2004
Maura K. Ammenheuser |
Banks Hear Customers Loud and Clear By leveraging speech technologies, banks are improving customer service and cutting costs. |
CRM
June 1, 2006
Coreen Bailor |
A Sign of the Times Looking for a tool to open up communication with the hearing impaired and provide consistent high video quality while offering platform stability, nonprofit Communication Services for the Deaf selected CosmoCom's CosmoCall Universe Interactive Voice and Video Response. |
CRM
March 2014
David Myron |
Top 3 Customer Service Trends for 2014 This year's hottest customer service trends include social media, cloud technology, and mobile devices. |
