Demystifying GDPR The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union (EU) on May 25, 2018. Following adoption of this legislation by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament in 2016, companies were given a two-year period to prepare for compliance with this far-reaching privacy and security regulation. What [...]
Will Convergence of Clicks and Bricks be the Death of the Contact Center? We hear everywhere that online shopping is going to eliminate the need for shopping centers, department stores and retail chains, along with their contact centers. It’s well known that the volume of online shopping is growing rapidly, at the same time as [...]
Top Workplace Best Practices for Contact Centers The workforce is a “mash-up” of diverse multi-cultural and multi-generational personnel. Organizations that want to attract and retain top talent and be considered employers of choice need to use workforce best practices to engage employees and let them know that their contributions are important to the mission of [...]
WFM for the Digital Age Digital transformation is an essential direction for enterprises that are striving to deliver an outstanding customer experience cost effectively. A growing number of companies are recognizing the need to change the way they do business if they want to remain relevant to their customers. Many of these companies are not [...]
2018 Enterprise Service Goals On an annual basis, DMG conducts a worldwide survey of enterprise, customer service and contact center servicing goals for the upcoming year. The results of DMG’s annual survey reflect enterprise priorities and investment direction. This information is helpful for companies because it indicates where their competitors are focusing their spending. It [...]
Apocalyptic Predictions and the Contact Center Every few years the soothsayers among us predict global trends that are either totally alarmist or too good to be true. Here are some of my favorites from the past few decades: The world is running out of oil – started in the 1970’s New age sensibility and meditation [...]
KPIs for Managing your Contact Center Contact centers are highly complex operating environments with a lot of moving parts and activities. In an attempt to achieve full transparency and visibility, contact center leaders may receive dozens of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), some of which seem to contradict others. In other contact centers the [...]
The Transforming World of Workforce Optimization Workforce optimization (WFO) suites are undergoing a major transformation to align better with the needs of the digital economy. Changes are happening in many components of WFO suites. At the core application level, recording solutions are transitioning from hardware-based recorders to software-based solutions, to expand system capacity and eliminate [...]
Welcome to the Hybrid World of Contact Center Software The future of contact center technology is in the cloud, although not all systems and applications are going to be moved to the cloud at once. Therefore, the dominant implementation model for contact center technology, particularly in large environments, is going to be hybrid. This means [...]
