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ICMI Article Series - ACCE 2012 Conference Recap

Hello readers! I just got back from Seattle and boy are my arms tired! I was up to my eyeballs in Contact Center Camaraderie and Commiseration at the ICMI ACCE (“ACE”) conference in Seattle.

Use A Knowledge Base To Reduce Costs

A knowledge base is software an organization can use to store knowledge acquired in the course of doing business. We’re talking about a database, only filled with knowledge and wisdom rather than just randomly accumulated data, so it’s a knowledge base.

We Don’t Want To Replace Your Phone System

VoiceVision is a methodical approach to evaluating the overall efficiency of your integrated telephony and contact center resources.
To conduct these evaluations, we have to ask a lot of questions about how staff members get things done with the tools they have.

Aligning the Contact Center with Corporate Goals

A 2012 survey by Knowlagent, unsurprisingly, shows that the top priority for call center managers is improving productivity. What’s the second priority? Alignment of contact center staff goals with corporate goals.

What is: Quality?

As we travel the world, we’re meeting people whose practices need improvement. In many cases these are people who are used to working very hard. However, in some cases they are working harder than they have to.

The Customer Is King, Even For Pharma

As I indicated in my post summarizing the CBI Conference on Biopharmaceutical Contact Centers, one of the takeaways from that event was that customer experience still matters, even in an industry that is subject to regulatory or legal constraints.

Now You’re Speaking My Language

A recent New York Times article points out that the Philippines has passed India in the number of call center agents. Filipino agents, however, are usually paid more than their Indian counterparts.

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