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Boosting the Strategic Value of Your Customer Service Operation
Expert Insight from ICMI Thought Leaders
ICMI recently put together the e-book Expert Insights on 8 of your Biggest Contact Center Challenges, featuring the ICMI Top 50 Thought Leaders. You’ll find...
Read More >>>Cutting Costs with Minimum Impact on Customers
Strengthen Ties Across the Organization
Effective communication across an organization is essential to sharing and using voice of the customer. And there are plenty of additional reasons to strengthen ties....
Read More >>>Caution: Don’t View Contact Center Performance Measures in Isolation
Consider a few examples that illustrate the interrelated nature of contact center performance measures: Cost...
Read More >>>Improving ROI on Quality Monitoring
Cultivating Effective Communication, Part 2
This discussion of communication continues with four more principles common to successful contact centers. You can read the first part of this discussion here. Develop...
Read More >>>Keeping Up with Customer Service Developments
You’re Lookin’ (Too?) Good…
Reporting the contact center in the best possible light can undermine success. There are a lot of ways to produce reports so that the center...
Read More >>>Great Customer Service on a Shoestring Budget
The Tugboat Institute recognizes Evergreen companies whose purpose-driven leaders build companies focused on long-term growth. The Institute’s Evergreen Journal recently published an article I wrote on...
Read More >>>Does Your Executive Team Understand Staffing Tradeoffs?
Are you working through difficult discussions related to resources and budget? Just remember, contact centers must handle most customer-related work as it happens, so resource...
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