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Making Contact How Ameritas Life Insurance utilized Calabrio's contact center workforce management solution to deliver higher levels of customer service by scheduling customer service reps in the contact center more effectively. |
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Case Study: CNA Surety Improves Productivity With Aspect To improve call monitoring and recording, CNA selects Aspect Productive Workforce. |
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May 1, 2003
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Got Workforce Management? Workforce management took center stage at the recent ICCM show in Las Vegas. The surging interest in workforce management applications comes at a time when companies are battening down their call center hatches and looking for ways to streamline efficiency. |
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It's Not Your Father's e-Learning The entire concept of agent training has been turned on its ear, and delivers unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity. |
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June 1, 2005
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Workforce Optimization's Missing Link Companies should strengthen their workforce optimization strategy with the addition of efficient agent selection tools. |
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March 2007
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Intensive Care Learn these workforce management lessons to breed the best contact center forecasting, scheduling, and managing efforts. |
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December 1, 2006
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All Together Now: WFM Centralization UPC Nederland's unified approach to contact center agent scheduling with IEX TotalView leads to cost savings and upped customer satisfaction. |
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October 1, 2007
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Tech Solution: Workforce Management Solutions Business problem: Managers cannot staff and manage their contact centers effectively. Workforce optimization solutions, which are simplifying those complex tasks while providing insightful performance management and learning capabilities. |
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Business Problem: Contact Center Managers Cannot Staff and Manage Their Call Centers Effectively Tech Solution: Workforce Optimization Tools -- Envision's Performance Suite... EX's TotalView Workforce Management... Witness Systems' Impact 360... |
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Market Watch: Making Sense of Workforce Optimization The reluctance to purchase workforce optimization solutions is based primarily on the general confusion in the marketplace. |
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Service on Steroids The contact center performance enhancers of choice these days are training, workflow automation, workforce optimization, and workforce management. These tools are coming together to form one dynamic performance-optimization solution to pump up the service volume. |
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January 31, 2005 |
Working With Real Estate Agents Approach the relationship sensibly, and you'll both be happier. |
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Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent A good agent can serve you very well -- so choose carefully. |
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July 2013
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Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
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12 Ways to Boost Productivity From better knowledge bases and improved natural-language search engines, to workforce management strategies and business process reengineering, here's what's new in enhancing contact center productivity. |
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The 2008 CRM Service Awards: Elite -- International Cruise & Excursions International Cruise & Excursions sails into workforce management with Aspect Software. |
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LiveOps Launches New Agent Recruitment Platform LiveOps' new platform makes it easier for Americans to apply as independent, work-at-home sales and customer service agents. |
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Service Revs Up Nissan's Turnaround Getting a better understanding of agent performance enabled Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. to address problem areas; the results were significant. |
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August 1, 2005
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A Recipe for Reduced Turnover: Find the Right Mix Recent advancements in selection technologies now make it possible to identify various individual traits and attributes before contact center job offers are made. |
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WFM Growth Brings Choices and Challenges For some companies, ease of use of workforce management applications is winning out over functionality. |
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Web-Based Solutions Deliver on Agents' Tech Expectations Insurers can leverage agent portals and systems integration technology to streamline agents' workflow and improve efficiencies. |
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Have an Agent in Your Corner Buying a house is stressful enough without having to worry about whether you can trust the real estate agent you're working with. By using a dedicated buyers' agent, you can make sure your agent is working for you. |
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Choosing a Real Estate Agent How should you go about choosing a real estate broker or agent? Don't just sign up with the one who promises you the highest price for your house. Here are a few tips. |
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The Changing Role of the Contact Center Agent With the proliferation of online self-help and new call center technologies, agents are being asked to resolve more challenging issues or to transform themselves into salespeople. But are current agents, who primarily respond to basic service requests, right for these new roles? |
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June 2014
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Ovum Expects Home-Based Agents to Soar by 2017 The annual growth rate is twice that of the brick-and-mortar contact center outsourcing market. |
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February 10, 2010
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Data Quality is Key to Agency Portal Performance A relatively small investment in data quality can make a big difference in helping insurers get more out of their agent portals than they put in. |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
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Return of the Agent With about 65% of all business travel reservations made online, you'd think travel agents might be going the way of the dodo bird. Not so fast. Online booking is great, but if your trip is complex, call in an expert. |
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Across the Universe Contact center managers have begun to examine this idea of the universal agent, agents theoretically capable of handling any contact, via any channel. |
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How To: Get Yourself An Agent Agents are necessary because they understand the industry they specialize in, know the big players and, more importantly, will know how to sell you and your talents, better than you can sell yourself. |
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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. |
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No Place Like Home To streamline work processes and improve ease of doing business, The Hartford redesigned its Electronic Business Center (EBC) agent portal home page. |
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Early Warning on Attrition Offshore BPO and contact-center companies struggling to fight the attrition epidemic are coming to rely more and more on early warning systems that track employee behavior to predict their likelihood of leaving the company |
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Hello, Dolly! A virtual, Web-based call center helps this custom doll maker find made-to-order agents... |
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Know-It-Alls To streamline customer service, Marconi employed a system to facilitate knowledge sharing among its tech support personnel. In the process, the roles of tech agents changed dramatically... |
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How to Overcome the Call Center Conundrum Five ways to improve efficiency without sacrificing relationships. |
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High Performance Workforce optimization suite vendors offer call centers increased ease of use, improved staffing, and lower business costs via new product packages. |
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The New, New Intelligence The military, intelligence and law enforcement communities see software agents as a tool for dealing with the daunting task of having to retrieve and monitor huge amounts of data in ongoing investigations or to prevent potential problems (from terrorist activity to insider trading). |
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Agent Model Yields Leadership Developing teams of robots or software agents that have efficient collective behavior is an emerging field of research. One avenue involves letting agents receive advice from their acquaintances. |
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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. |
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Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
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July 1, 2005
Coreen Bailor |
On the Scene: From Cost Center To Cash Cow As contact centers are under mounting pressure to grow revenue for organizations, CSRs are being encouraged to engage in cross- and upsell opportunities. |
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February 2003
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Just Desserts Rewarding and recognizing contact center agents is as much science as it is art. |
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The Next Frontier in Call Center Analytics Investing in operations is not enough. Ideally, companies would invest unlimited funds into ensuring that each and every customer receives a personal, efficient call center experience. |
