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Institute associates are available to deliver in-depth leading-edge keynote presentations at conferences and company meetings on a variety of Customer Care topics.
TECHNOLOGY
E-Retail: Buying Into the Customer Experience
It's become progressively harder for retailers to compete based on price over the past few years. Retail subsegments in crowded marketplaces have seen low-cost online pure plays and big-box stores with substantial supply chain efficiencies continue to pick up steam with consumers.
Friday, 01 June 2007
Using SIP to Improve Customer Service
The SIP-enabled contact center is unique because it simultaneously allows the retention of existing investments in infrastructure and provides a road map to an innovative feature set for the future. Embracing SIP natively in the contact center application is the only way to fully realize the benefits of an end-to-end SIP multimedia session between a customer and agent.
Thursday, 31 May 2007
CRM Explains Why Airline Customer Service Stinks
In today's news, airline customer service is getting worse, and the sun rose in the east this morning. Why? Easy: The industry has absolutely no incentive whatsoever to offer better customer service because whaddya gonna do, take Greyhound from New York to San Francisco? Right. Now get back in line and take off your belt and shoes.
Monday, 28 May 2007
Widespread Customer Service Problems for Consumer Technology Companies
Three-quarters of customers receiving “average” customer service plan to defect, while, self-service capabilities are not winning over customers.  Many consumer technology companies are alienating customers with “average” customer service and risk losing three-quarters (73 percent) of them to competitors, according to research released today.
Monday, 21 May 2007
Employee-Employer Partnership Changing
The nature of employee-employer relationships is evolving. There is likely to be further customization of benefits (flex benefits) to meet the diverse needs of the changing work force (e.g., four generations in the work force). Employee engagement strategies will be critical to making employees feel part of the decision-making process, particularly in work redesign.
Monday, 14 May 2007
Stay One Step Ahead of Your Customers with IT
If you were working for a business where for the past eight years you had sold out all your inventory, met all your company's financial expectations and kept IT investment flat to inflation, would you have the nerve to ask your CEO to invest in an IT project you believed would improve the customer experience but for which you couldn't quantify the ROI?
Wednesday, 09 May 2007
A Brief Guide to Troubleshooting Breakdowns in Channel Performance Improvement
Look into a high rise tower of a prototypical corporate headquarters called XYZ Industries, a company with franchised outlets to sell and service their company's products and services. As in many sectors, the company does not directly own the retail outlets, but does hold sway about granting, maintaining, and revoking franchises.
Thursday, 03 May 2007
Yackety Clack
Text chat is no longer exclusively for the tech-adept, buddy-list teen set--it's picking up steam as an enterprise touch point to facilitate multichannel strategies for service and sales efforts.
Wednesday, 02 May 2007
The Virtual Contact Center
The virtual contact center is emerging as a key resolution to many of the concerns of the traditional call center. A solution to the need for extended hours, less commuting, improved customer service and disaster recovery, the virtual contact center offers a host of benefits by allowing agents to still connect to callers without needing to be located at one central location.
Friday, 27 April 2007
Call Quality Plays Role in Customer Satisfaction With the Wireless Phone Experience
As usage continuously increases and the number of new data-centric service offerings grow, call performance and network reliability are becoming more critical to wireless customers demanding consistent quality connections, according to 2007 U.S. Wireless Regional Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) Study(SM)-Volume 1.
Friday, 20 April 2007


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