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2022-2023 CX Decision-Maker’s Guide

RingCentral | 6/12/2023 4:21:45 PM

The "US Customer Experience Decision-Makers' Guide (2022-23 – 5th edition)" is a major annual report studying the CX strategy, performance, operations and technology aspects of US organizations.
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Taking a random sample of the industry, a detailed structured questionnaire was answered by 184 senior CX and customer contact professionals.
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Additionally, we surveyed 1,000 US consumers to understand their attitudes and expectations for the customer experiences they demand from brands.

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Maximizing Productivity in the Contact Center

RingCentral | 6/12/2023 4:19:59 PM

In 2023, maximizing productivity is a non-negotiable. Over the past two years companies have recognized the value of optimized contact center operations and are working to extensively improve processes, streamline operations and ignite efficiency. While many have been slowly working to enhance productivity, the metric has quickly become critical for customer experience success.

The stakes for better experiences have also grown immensely. Amid economic uncertainty, organizations are scaling back and attempting to do more with less, while working to meet rising customer expectations. Today, only 10% of customers believe that experiences have significantly improved over the past year — even with a full staff of agents ready to support them.

Now, working with stricter budgets and a diminished workforce, organizations are attempting to continuously improve experiences and meet customer expectations while navigating uncertainty. By maximizing productivity, companies can streamline the agent experience, eliminate inefficiencies and facilitate better interactions.

This report will dive into the current employee experience, uncover leading pain points preventing efficiency and establish a framework for maximizing productivity in the contact center. By empowering agents to do more with less, companies can continuously improve even during moments of economic downturn, keep-ing customers and employees satisfied over the long term.

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Making Magical Moments in CX

RingCentral | 6/12/2023 4:18:07 PM

In a world where customer experience is the key to driving sales, loyalty, and opportunities for businesses, contact centers are under significant pressure. Leaders in the contact center space need to ensure they’re creating fast, frictionless, and responsive experiences for every customer. What’s more, the sensational experience offered by brands needs to flow seamlessly across multiple channels, allowing clients the freedom to choose the communication strategy best-suited to their needs. To unlock the right results, countless companies across the globe have accelerated their investments into CX (Customer Experience) initiatives, focused on delighting their audience. However, as many organizations have begun to discover, enhancing CX on its own isn’t enough.

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Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies®, RingCentral Special Edition

RingCentral | 6/12/2023 4:15:15 PM

In this book, find out how a next-gen cloud contact center
can help your organization deliver the experiences your customers
demand, what a modern cloud contact center looks like, and
how you can implement the contact center of the future in your
organization today.


About This Book

Next-Gen Cloud Contact Centers For Dummies, RingCentral Special
Edition, consists of six chapters that explore the following:
- The evolution of the contact center, different use cases, and
the benefits of a next-gen cloud contact center (Chapter 1)
- The changing world of work, communication, and collaboration
(Chapter 2)
- Next-gen cloud contact center technologies (Chapter 3)
- The value of analytics for your contact center (Chapter 4)
- How to get started with a next-gen cloud contact center
(Chapter 5)
- Key takeaways of your next-gen cloud contact center
(Chapter 6)

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The Future of IVR Customer Service Assurance

Empirix | 4/7/2021 8:28:50 AM

Enabling customers to use self-service tools such as IVRs are critical for efficient, cost-effective business operations. But systems that are poorly optimized lead to more problems than they solve. Having a clear understanding of how well your IVR is working to serve the needs of your customers is critical as it baselines operational efficiency and identifies new opportunities to improve customer experience, cut costs and advance service offerings.

Download this paper and explore how to :
• Automate customer use cases
• Accelerate release cycles and deploy cutting-edge technologies with confidence
• Ensure that your contact center systems are operating as designed and intended
• Detect, respond to, and remedy service interruptions and measure their impacts on revenue

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Ten Tips for Developing a Powerful End-to-End Contact Center Testing Plan

Empirix | 4/1/2021 11:42:45 AM

To achieve the time and money savings that pre-deployment testing offers, you need in-depth strategy and execution plans.

This white paper provides actionable information to ensure you achieve your testing goals.

Read this white paper to discover:
• Detailed guidelines for developing your contact center testing plan
• Step-by-step instructions for building an effective test case for management
• Advice for developing a long-term strategy for ongoing change management and active/passive monitoring of your voice network and applications

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Contact Center Agility in the Post-COVID World

NICE inContact | 1/21/2021 3:49:31 PM

Get the latest trend report in this new white paper from DMG Consulting.

The shift to a work-from-anywhere workforce is not likely to slow down in contact centers, even after this year. It’s time to reimagine remote agent hiring. The latest research in this new white paper can help.

Download the white paper now to learn:
• How contact centers will adapt hiring practices for increasingly remote workforces
• Which changes you can make to properly analyze remote agent performance
• How technology can help you hire, train, and manage remote agents with agility

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A comprehensive approach to the IoT challenge

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise | 12/11/2020 12:44:02 PM

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic in all industry sectors, including residential and commercial markets. In the enterprise arena, digital transformation is accelerating the number of IoT devices being connected and accessing applications and data.

This whitepaper looks at how IoT is transforming enterprises and how Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Digital Age Networking manages IoT devices in an automated and secure manner while enabling seamless integration into business-oriented digital processes.

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The Changing Customer Journey

Edify | 10/14/2020 10:25:13 AM

The customer is as kingly as he’s ever been, armed with 24/7 access and the power to elevate or nearly erase a brand’s reputation with a few screen taps.

Brands must now push the boundaries of business communications to undreamed-of heights to create true customer delight. But first, brands must understand the customer journey. The new complex, connected customer journey demands that brands see the big picture and the trends while simultaneously zooming in to treat each customer as a unique individual.

Who are your customers? How do they choose to interact with you? And do those interactions go well, or not so much? The whole objective of customer service is truly to put ourselves in the customer's shoes and walk awhile. We’ve pulled together 8 ways to help you meet customers where they are, at every step of the journey. Find out how.

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Self-Service Maturity Model: Gaining a Competitive Advantage from Self-Service

Inference Solutions | 8/27/2020 12:38:58 PM

Written By: DMG Consulting LLC <BR><BR>
Voice self-service has changed dramatically since voice response units (VRUs) first came on the scene in the early 1980’s. The self-service market has grown and expanded during the past 40 years, and it’s time for organizations to adopt the current generation of solutions as an important step in their digital transformation. The goal today is to provide a personalized and intelligent self-service experience cost effectively. It’s also important to deliver a consistent and high level of customer service regardless of the channel in which customers elect to interact. The most sophisticated self-service is provided by a relatively new IT sector called intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). IVAs use a natural language conversational approach, enhanced by machine learning and intelligent augmentation (IA), to deliver a personalized customer experience in any channel (voice, web, chat, instant messaging (IM)/short message service (SMS), email, etc.). The question is not whether you are ready to migrate from your existing self-service solutions to IVA-supported voice and digital self-service, but how quickly you can effectively adopt the new generation of AI-enabled self-service technology. Read this white paper to see where your organization currently stands in its self-service maturity evolution and the steps needed to make the transition to IVA successful.

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Why You Need to Embrace Conversational AI for Customer Care

Inference Solutions | 8/27/2020 12:36:44 PM

Written By: Joseph Williams, Analyst, BC Strategies<BR><BR>Ask your CMO or your CRO whether customer success is key to thriving in this digital era. Then ask them how artificial intelligence is going to redefine how customers can achieve success.

Gartner has already done these surveys, and its findings are that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are poised to dramatically raise the table stakes for customer engagement.1 Eighty-four percent of respondent companies indicated they were investing in customer experience technologies in 2018. A quarter expect to have virtual chatbot technologies deployed by 2020. Overall, thirty percent expect by the same year to be using AI technologies to augment at least one of their primary sales processes.

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Buyers Guide to Intelligent Virtual Agents and Chatbots

Inference Solutions | 8/27/2020 12:33:28 PM

Major advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing have given organizations that need to automate self-service a giant leap forward. For the first time ever, companies of all sizes can now use Virtual Agents to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. Unfortunately, these advancements have also led to some confusion in the market. The terminology surrounding Virtual Agents can be confusing and it’s often challenging for an organization to understand exactly what can be accomplished today. Buyers also need a framework to help them decide which functionality should be implemented in order to meet their most pressing business needs.

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REMOTE AGENT PLAYBOOK

RingCentral 2020 | 6/2/2020 12:31:40 PM

This is a manual to help you prepare your contact center with a business continuity plan to make remote work a functional reality.
While working remotely continues to grow in popularity, the decision to allow teams to work from home has typically presented more challenges for some areas of business when compared to others. As organizations navigate potential emergency situations that forge agents to work remotely, RingCentral can help you continue to work as a team to serve your customers even while they are working from home.

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5 WAYS TO CHANGE A TOXIC CALL CENTER ENVIRONMENT

RingCentral 2020 | 6/2/2020 12:29:05 PM

Learn why some call centers can feel downright destructive, and how your business can replace that toxicity with positivity — and success.


No matter who you talk to, everyone agrees: a toxic call center is hurtful to customers, employees, and your bottom line. When customers call in, they’re hoping to connect with an actively engaged team that’s ready, willing, and capable of providing the service they expect. When employees clock in, they’re hoping to be a part of that dream team — plus a positive working environment that helps them serve customers to their best ability.

The reality is that not every call center is set up for success — and some struggle to escape a toxic call center environment. If your call center is one of the good ones, high five! If you believe yours is just okay and could be better, we’ll help you get there. This eBook explores toxic call center environments: what they look like, why they happen, and how to change them for the better.

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of RingCentral Contact Center

RingCentral 2020 | 6/2/2020 12:27:26 PM

Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By RingCentral Contact Center



To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed four customers of RingCentral Contact Center. To reflect the impact that RingCentral Contact Center could have on an organization, Forrester has developed a composite organization detailed further below that is based on benefit and cost data gathered from the interviews. The composite is representative of the organizations Forrester interviewed and is used to present the aggregate financial analysis in this study. The magnitude of benefits and costs will vary for organizations with more or fewer agents.
Prior to using RingCentral Contact Center, the interviewed organizations primarily used on-premises contact center systems for voice and multiple cloud applications for internal collaboration. Poor reliability caused excessive downtime. Agents found their legacy systems time-consuming and difficult to use. In addition, the legacy on-premises systems constrained operational flexibility and did not readily scale. The complexity of legacy systems increased the IT staff effort needed to manage them.

With RingCentral Contact Center, the interviewed organizations were able to not only deliver a better customer and agent experience but also decrease their contact center costs. The IT director at an enterprise software company summed up its impact by noting, “There are so many things we can do with RingCentral Contact Center that we couldn’t do before.”

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