Whitepapers / Guides
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Enghouse Interactive’s Top Tips / Articles
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Businesses Are Failing to Measure or Monitor Customer Service Quality
Research highlights lack of consensus on what quality means and finds many businesses prevented by cost, resource and technology barriers from achieving it.
Make sure you’re not one of them! Read our latest article
Top Tips: Customer Experience
How do I Make Time for Agent Training
Today, a potent combination of quality monitoring, call recording and real-time speech analytics deployed in the contact centre is helping organisations make time for agent training.
Here, we offer some top tips as to how you can best use these approaches to get the most from your training process.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Top Tips for Keeping your Processes up to Date
Getting your processes right and keeping them current relies heavily on the coming together of three different enterprise-wide initiatives. Read our article to learn more.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Businesses Are Failing to Measure or Monitor Customer Service Quality
Research highlights lack of consensus on what quality means and finds many businesses prevented by cost, resource and technology barriers from achieving it.
Make sure you’re not one of them! Read our latest article
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Top Tips – How to be a Connected Digital Enterprise
To gain traction in the market and build competitive edge, you need to get an insight into your customers’ digital footprints, the kinds of channels they like to interact over and the particular likes and dislikes they have.
The same is true of today’s digital enterprises, organisations increasingly need to build their own digital DNA. Take a look at our top tips.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
What Can the Hit TV Series “Modern Family” and “Humans” Teach Businesses about Customer Interaction
In what way is the rapid advance of digital technology impacting today’s families, and to what extent is it changing the way family members interact with each other and the wider world? Popular series like the US sitcom Modern Family and Channel 4’s new hit drama, Humans, explore these concepts in detail. This article looks at strategies companies can implement today to drive the customer experiences of tomorrow.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Can Contact Centres Benefit from ‘Skype for Business’?
The adoption of collaboration tools within many enterprises has created a revolution that’s driving a new age of customer service. This revolution is shifting to an evolution as businesses seek to extract added value from services such as Microsoft Lync and now Skype for Business. These changes are impacting how businesses approach unified communications as they embrace omnichannel customer interaction.
Top Tips: Unified Communications
UC doesn’t mean a U-turn in your Customer Communications
UC technology has made a transition as organisations first use applications like Microsoft Lync, Cisco Jabber internally to check presence and route calls. Realising this new methodology could also support external communications, enabling them to quickly route customers to the individual best placed to respond. Here are our top tips on how businesses can make the most of the approach.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Emotional Intelligence in the age of interruption
Most people are looking for effortless customer service. This is being driven at least in part by the need for speed. If people are interrupted multiple times during a day, they will increasingly want and need to get their own issues and concerns rapidly resolved. We discover more about emotional intelligence in the age of continuous interruption.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Are you giving your customers, an easy life ?
Read our top tips to see how to make your services as easy as possible for your customers to deal with your organisation. It’s an important lesson for businesses to learn as 60% of respondents to recent survey said they had never done business with a brand again as a result of poor customer service.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Get in shape – Put Your Contact Centre on Diet
Many customer-facing organisations, wrestling with the aftermath of the festive splurge, and are looking to get into shape to deal with new services, products. Now is the perfect time to put in place a new fitness regime. But it’s not always easy. Here are some simple steps you can take to shed the bad habits and get your contact centre fighting fit:
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Be proactive with your customers
We are now seeing a growing number of businesses learning lessons and achieving excellent results by adopting a proactive approach to customer service. So how are successful businesses going about being proactive today? Here are some top tips to keep you on the front foot as you look to deliver effortless customer service. Take a look at our top tips with real practicals examples.
Article: Unified Communications
Age of Interruption
With the world being dominated by digital technology where doing battle with a continuous stream of emails, instant messages and mobile phone calls has become a daily fact of life this is resulting in the “Age of Interruption” whereby workers are becoming “skimmers”, is this the same case when talking to your customers? Read our article to learn more.
Article: Customer Experience
The New Age of Polarised Customer Service
We are entering a new age of customer service, characterised by a stark generational divide in consumer likes and dislikes. This polarisation around age is the overriding lesson is that a one-size-fits-all approach no longer works in today’s complex market. Read our article to learn more
Article: Customer Experience
How to optimise customer access
Intelligently providing your customers with a choice of channels through which to communicate, based upon the nature of their need, can deliver a more efficient, lower effort experience and will differentiate your service from that of your competitors. Read our article to learn more
Article: Customer Experience
How can businesses deliver true self-service without damaging customer experience?
All that every customer wants is a quick and accurate answer to their question. Most don’t mind how they receive it. Yet, the days when organisations were advised to bury their contact details deep in their website so that customers had no alternative but to take the self-service option are well and truly over. Read our article to learn how to make your customers work for you.
Whitepapers/ Guides
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Why Digital DNA is the Lifeblood of the Modern Business?
This white paper highlights the importance of this digital DNA to business and explores approaches they can take to capture and leverage it to deliver business effiiciencies; achieve enhanced customer engagement and drive competitive edge.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
The Connected Enterprise
It’s a balancing act but for many companies today, the potential benefits outweigh the perceived risks, especially as UC platforms can be the catalyst that helps make the connected enterprise a reality. So, how can businesses start to put in place the building blocks of the connected enterprise by using unified communications technology together with the latest customer interaction technology? View some top tips to avoid the pitfalls and capitalise on the opportunities of a connected enterprise.
Whitepaper: Customer Experience
How to Build A Customer Centric Enterprise
Customers are the lifeblood of your organisation and should be at the heart of everything your employees do and should not solely be the concern of those in the front line of your organisation. It’s only when every employee defines their actions by the impact they have on the customer experience, can you consider yourself a truly Customer Centric Enterprise. Read our article to becoming a truly Customer Centric Enterprise.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Are you listening to your customers and agents?
Traditionally, you build an approach around measuring statistics related to call handling from call volumes to call answer time; average call handle time; abandonment rates and queue time, for example. However, there are clearly some significant limitations with this approach to quality of the service and performance. Read our whitepaper to learn a new approach.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
The Connected Enterprise
It’s a balancing act but for many companies today, the potential benefits outweigh the perceived risks, especially as UC platforms can be the catalyst that helps make the connected enterprise a reality. So, how can businesses start to put in place the building blocks of the connected enterprise by using unified communications technology together with the latest customer interaction technology? View some top tips to avoid the pitfalls and capitalise on the opportunities of a connected enterprise.
Whitepaper: Remote Working in the contact center
Whitepaper: Customer Experience
How to Build A Customer Centric Enterprise
Customers are the lifeblood of your organisation and should be at the heart of everything your employees do and should not solely be the concern of those in the front line of your organisation. It’s only when every employee defines their actions by the impact they have on the customer experience, can you consider yourself a truly Customer Centric Enterprise. Read our article to becoming a truly Customer Centric Enterprise.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Evolution of the Contact Centre
Over the past few years we have seen dramatic changes in the relationship between corporate business and customer. Download our whitepaper to help make the right choices in a rapidly changing world.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
Building a Business Case for Cloud Contact Centres
This white paper takes a look at the issues businesses face in enhancing customer interactions and optimising their customer service; examines the on-going move away from physical contact centres towards a more virtual approach and explores the elements of building a business case for cloud.
Sponsored Reports
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Contact Babel: The UK Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-Based Contact Centres
Platinum sponsors of this years Contact Babel “Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-based Contact Centre Solutions. The guide aims to give a detailed and definitive view of the reality of implementing, the business drivers, technology and market for cloud solutions and a view on what the future holds..
Sponsored Report: Contact Centre
IQPC – Omni-Channel Report
Organisations believe “omni-channel” is the correct approach to customer engagement, but many of those businesses find themselves grappling with less aspirational requirements of “multi-channel.Take a look at Call Center IQ: Executive Report on the Omni-Channel Customer Experience.
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Contact Babel: UK Contact Centre Decision Makers Guide
Enghouse Interactive has partnered with ContactBabel to bring you the 2014 UK Contact Centre Decision Makers’ Guide. We hope that this guide will answer any questions you may have about the major issues affecting the contact centre industry and future customer strategy.
Sponsored Report: Unified Communications
Contact Babel: The Inner Circle Guide to Self Service Guide
Enghouse Interactive are pleased to be a key sponsor of the Inner Circle Guide to Self Service 2014. Within this definitive analyst study of how intelligent automated service – via IVR, speech, virtual agents, mobile and social channels – fits into the customer contact mix.
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Contact Babel: UK Inner Circle to Multichannel Customer Contact
Enghouse Interactive has partnered with ContactBabel to bring you the UK Inner Circle Guide to Multichannel Customer Contact. We hope that this guide will answer any questions you may have about the major issues affecting the contact centre industry and future multichannel strategy.
Enghouse Interactive Surveys
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Senses of Quality Survey
A new survey from us, polling the views of UK organisations reveals that many businesses are struggling to define quality customer service delivery, and thanks to cost and integration challenges, often failing to implement the necessary recording, monitoring and analytics tools to deliver it. Use your senses of quality to build the next gen of operational performance and quality management.
Survey: Customer Experience
Consumer Survey Report: Covering all bases Enghouse Interactive has run a Consumer survey to over 2000 people across different age ranges to identify the trends on consumer’s thoughts on customer experience. Download the free survey to learn the findings.
