Operations Management 

Customer Feedback Can Help with More than Improving Customer Satisfaction


Recent benchmark research carried out by Ventana Research on the state of contact center technologies shows that customer feedback management is one of the applications most often deployed in contact centers; our research found it to be the third-most-often deployed...

BY: Richard Snow – Feb 21, 2012 | Comments (0)
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Operations Management 

Does your contact center have a formal process for analyzing customer satisfaction survey results?

When is comes to tracking and analyzing customer satisfaction survey results, many contact centers do not have a formal process. In a recent ICMI Quick...

BY: The Editors – Feb 20, 2012 | Comments (0)
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Have You Heard Them Being Quiet?

We always seem to wait until we are hearing noise, and usually loud noise, before we react. Isn’t it time we started listening to the...

BY: Todd Hixson – Feb 16, 2012 | Comments (0)
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Is agent adherence so bad that you feel like you need to time your agents' bathroom breaks?

Is agent adherence so bad that you feel like you need to time your agents' bathroom breaks?

Adherence is a top challenge in the contact center. When a Norwegian call center made headlines for timing its agent's breaks, ICMI polled our audience...

BY: The Editors – Feb 13, 2012 | Comments (0)
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Customer Retention is a Shared Responsibility

The following article was originally published at www.loricarrassociates.com Seasoned service executives are well aware of the criticality of high customer retention rates and their impact...

BY: Lori Carr – Feb 9, 2012 | Comments (0)
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Strategic Training Director, ICMI

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Senior Consultant, ICMI

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Strategic Consultant, Interactive Intelligence

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Managing Partner , AMP'D Consulting Group LLC

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National Account Manager, ICMI

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Marketing Specialist, ICMI

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Inside Sales Specialist, ICMI

Rachel Ostafi

Marketing Manager, Events & Training, ICMI

Richard Snow

Susan Langwell

ICMI Certified Consultant, ICMI

Jeff Feuer

President, Customer Solutions Group

Layne Holley

Director of Community Services, ICMI

Mark Lewis

Editor, Call Centre Focus

Michael Pace

Director of Customer Support, Constant Contact

Robert Stevenson

President and Founder of Seeking Excellence

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