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Is Your Company Ready to Provide a Great Customer Experience to the Millennial Generation?

The Millennials are coming, and few businesses are prepared. Please join us for this brief, complimentary podcast to begin to learn about key customer experience strategies for addressing the needs of the Millennial generation. During this podcast, we will discuss:

  • Factors that motivate the Millennial generation
  • Strategies for building customer loyalty with this important market

And dont forget to register for the companion webcast to this podcast.


Is Your Contact Center Getting in the Way of the Customer Experience?

Customer service stands on the brink of a new era. Recent advancements in standards have made the dreams of customer service a reality.

Learn from Darryl Addington, Manager of Product Marketing, Genesys:

  • How SIP-enabled applications are being used by Genesys customers to improve the customer experience while reducing customer service operational costs
  • About a new approach to customer service that uses previously unavailable resources within the customer service operation
  • How to increase customer service efficiency through variable labor pools
  • And don't fail to join us for our complimentary webcast on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET), at which time Darryl will be joined by Elizabeth Herrell, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, who will explain:

  • How leading-edge companies are leveraging the SIP standard to enable dynamic customer service that brings the entire enterprise to bear on customer communication
  • Why SIP is important for the customer service operation and the impact of virtualization on the contact center
  • How to move gracefully from a CTI-based customer service operation to a SIP-based one

  • Managing the Unexpected Before Things Get Out of Control

    Unexpected events have an adverse impact on the customer's experience due to uncontrolled wait time, wasted agent capacity and missed revenue opportunities. In this podcast, ICMI's Alex Dering talks with Marsha Calfee, Director of Product Marketing for Genesys' Informiam product line, about creating a framework for positive business management that involves everyone -- from senior execs to frontline agents -- and how contact centers can manage unexpected events in real-time. You'll learn the components of a proactive business management model, how it differs from using traditional historical reporting tools, and the benefits that this model will bring to the rest of your enterprise.


    Increasing the Customer Experience with an Intelligent Customer Front Door

    Join us for a special podcast on how to create a strong competitive customer advantage by enhancing your Customer Front Door, the entrance to your enterprise. In this podcast, ICMI's Greg Levin interviews Genesys' Mayur Anadkat about common customer complaints and negative experiences associated with traditional self-service models. Youll learn how an intelligent Customer Front Door can welcome customers and assist them with unique, proactive services based on the caller's intent, instead of having to navigate a rigid, standardized, complex call tree. Youll also hear how this approach provides relevant, personalized service that can improve customer satisfaction and loyalty -- creating the opportunity for a long-term relationship and higher lifetime customer value.


    Best Practices in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

    Join us for Part 5 of our special podcast series on how switching to IP will affect your center. This time, ICMI's Janie Iadipaolo interviews Jeff Weil, vice president of services and support with Empirix, about best practices in disaster recovery and business continuity.


    Best Practices in Deploying Customer Care Technology

    ICMI's Janie Iadipaolo interviews Paul Shaw, Contact Center Specialist for BT. It's the fourth installment in our series on how customer care organizations can work as optimally as possible in an IP environment.


    Defining Efficiency and Effectiveness

    Many customer care organizations seem to find it easy to define efficiency, but they have a more difficult time defining effectiveness. Take a moment to listen to our five-minute podcast, when ICMI's Joe Fleischer interviews Genesys' Stefan Captijn about how organizations can define, measure and improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of their service to customers. During this podcast, you will learn how to select criteria for evaluating how well your organization assists customers; how to apply what you already know about your customer care team's efficiency to gauge the team's effectiveness; and which types of information are essential for enabling you to improve your organization's communication with customers.


    Should You Automate That Interaction?

    Take a moment to listen to our five-minute podcast, when ICMI's Joe Fleischer interviews Genesys' Stefan Captijn about how to integrate automation with agent-based support to serve customers most effectively, while boosting agent productivity and satisfaction.


    Best Practices in First-Customer Resolution

    It's Part 3 in our special Podcast series on how switching to IP will affect your center. This time, ICMI's Janie Iadipaolo interviews Rich Collier, Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer with Empirix. Our focus during this segment is first-customer resolution. You'll learn why this metric has become an important indicator of how well companies serve their customers; best practices to increase the likelihood of first-customer resolution; and how to use advances in IP telephony to sustain your goals for first-customer resolution.


    New Opportunities For Speech-Based IVR

    ICMI's Janie Iadipaolo interviews Steve McCoy, Director of Technology Strategies for West Interactive. It's the second installment in our series on how customer care organizations can work as optimally as possible in an IP environment.


    What Are Your Customers Saying About You?

    ICMI's Joe Fleischer interviews Genesys' Stefan Captijn about the findings of groundbreaking research from Genesys that reveals the powerful impact of the customer experience on your business.


    How IP Redefines the Effectiveness of Customer Care Technology

    ICMI's Janie Iadipaolo interviews Phil Odence, vice president of business development with Empirix, about how customer care organizations can work as optimally as possible in an IP environment.


    The Voice of CMI: Introducing Customer Management Insight

    Susan Hash and Joe Fleischer discuss ICMI's new digital publication.


    Keith Dawson Interviews Bob Furniss

    Call Center Guru Bob Furniss ponders The Call Centerverse with Keith Dawson, including the latest management trends that are working in the real world.


    Keith Dawson Interviews 1-800-FLOWER's Connie Adcock

    Keith and Connie discuss, among other things, Home Agents and Pajama Parties.


    Jay Minnucci Call Center Demo Keynote: Part 1

    Jay introduces some fresh ICMI research into what helps call-center also-rans become bigtime winners. First discussion point: what roles do leaders have in helping centers to "break through" to greatness.


    Jay Minnucci Call Center Demo Keynote: Part 2

    Jay talks obstacles. Of course, everybody has them. But how do "break through" center deal and what exactly are they dealing with?


    Jay Minnucci Call Center Demo Keynote: Part 3

    Jay recaps his standing-room-only keynote speech at ICMI's Call Center Demo and Conference in Miami.


    Keith Dawson Discusses Agent Integration With Jacada's David Holmes

    This interview with ICMI Editorial Director Keith Dawson occurred shortly after Jacada and Avaya announced that they are entering into a joint marketing agreement. Avaya is going to be offering several key Jacada tools to their global customer base of (mainly) large call centers.


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