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Blog:Forrester's Top 15 Trends For Customer Service In 2013

2012 is still a vivid memory for most of us. But it’s time to look ahead to 2013 and focus on the key trends that customer service professionals need to pay attention to as they plan for...

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Blog:Market Consolidation In The Customer Service Space - A Slew Of Companies That No Longer Exist

I know the customer service market is consolidating as it matures. I’ve been tracking the consolidation of the knowledge management, multichannel management and EFM space for a while. However,...

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Blog:Siri Is Shining A Spotlight On Virtual Agents

Siri, Apple’s voice-activated virtual agent (VA), has raised the profile of this technology category. Siri provides the right engagement paradigm: ask a question and get an answer - a right...

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Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: Contact Center Solutions For Customer Service, Q2 2013

Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...

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Report:Navigate The Future Of Customer Service

Vision: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As organizations strive to succeed in the age of the customer, business and IT professionals responsible for customer service struggle to understand changing customer behavior, re-engineer end-to-end...

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Blog:Why Is Effortless Customer Service So Hard To Deliver? It's Partly An Ownership Issue

Why is it so difficult to deliver consistent, effortless customer service interactions across communication channels and touchpoints. A fundamental reason has to do with how companies are internally...

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Blog:Build, Buy, Or Outsource Customer Service Solutions? Here's An Approach To Help You Decide

How do you choose the right customer service solution for your needs? It’s always best to take a systematic approach: (1) benchmark your current operations using our Assessment Framework to...

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Report:Choose The Right Customer Service Solution For Your Business

Tools And Technology: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

Delivering a differentiated customer experience requires that you have the right technologies, business processes, and empowered organizational structures to support your organization's customer...

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Blog:Contact Center Agent Turnover Is A Fact Of Life That Must Be Tracked And Managed

Agents turn over in contact centers, and managing your turnover rate is a fact of life. Low agent turnover rates are those that are below 20% a year, and some contact centers have turnover rates as...

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Report:Assess Customer Service Capabilities To Pinpoint Opportunities For Better Service

Assessment: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

This report describes the best practices assessment framework that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service...

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Blog:Customer Service: Why It Matters — And How To Do It Right

For many companies, customer service is a cornerstone of their customer experience strategy. It’s an area of increasing importance because: Good customer service experiences are good for...

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Blog:Nuance Acquires VirtuOz. What Does This Really Mean?

The word on the street is that Nuance is buying the online virtual agent company VirtuOz for an undisclosed sum (see the TechCrunch article here). So what does this acquisition mean? Let's start...

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Report:Forrester's Best Practices Framework For Customer Service Self-Assessment

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Blog:Forrester Data Shows An Explosion Of Channels For Customer Service With Inconsistent Satisfaction Ratings

We know that consumer preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it’s not just the younger generation of consumers — there’s disruption and change across...

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Blog:Four Steps For Optimizing Customer Service Operations

This post originally appeared on destinationCRM.   Customers want efficient, effortless service from the touchpoint and communication channel of their choice. They want to receive accurate,...

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Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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Blog:Communication Channel Preferences For Customer Service Are Rapidly Changing. Do You Know What Your Customers Need?

Consumers’ preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it’s not just the younger generation of consumers — there’s disruption and change across all...

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Blog:Oracle's Customer Experience Management Technology: Its A Good Thing, But Really Hard To Do

I was at Oracle’s Analyst day today, and spent time with the Customer Experience Team drilling into the technology that allows organizations to deliver consistent, cross-channel,...

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Blog:More Changes Afoot In The CRM Space: Sage Drops SageLogix and ACT! To Focus On Core Products

Yesterday, the UK-based Sage Group said it had agreed to sell seven of its noncore products, virtually divesting itself of its North American operations. Notable divestitures in the CRM space are: ...