Whitepapers / Guides
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Enghouse Interactive’s Top Tips / Articles
Article: Channel
A Powerful Sense of Team – Ant Middleton
Enghouse recently invited Ant Middleton to share his thoughts on how to survive and thrive in a hostile and rapidly changing environment. Discover how a special services Mindset can help business survive and thrive in the tough channel world
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Active Listening in the Contact Centre
Active listening can improve job effectiveness for agents, ensure compliance with the latest industry regulations, increase customer satisfaction and significantly increase first contact resolution.
Read our five top tips for optimising the benefits of active listening in the contact centre.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Contact Centre Efficiency Plan
To stay ahead of the pack, businesses need to ensure their contact centres are focused on driving efficiencies. Our step by step guide takes you through the core ingredients needed to make sure your contact centre is Fit in 18.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
How do I Make Time for Agent Training
Today, a potent combination of quality monitoring, call recording and real-time speech analytics deployed in the contact centre is helping organisations make time for agent training.
Here, we offer some top tips as to how you can best use these approaches to get the most from your training process.
Article: Customer Experience
Age of the Independent Consultant – Forging a role in customer interaction management
The world of customer experience & interaction management has witnessed a transformation with technology & customer expectations evolving rapidly. To survive, businesses need to move fast to keep ahead of the game. This article explores the role of the independent consultant and its importance within customer interaction management.
Article: Vertical: Collections
Engaging More Closely With Debtors
Technology is key to unlocking a better customer experience for debtors whilst opening up a broad range of business benefits for collections companies. This article takes you through the various aspects to consider and how technology can help you reach your goals.
Article: Vertical: Collections
Outbound Dialling – Driving Efficiency & Compliance in Debt Collection
If you want to achieve collections success, you have to be able to connect with your customer base. This explores how outbound dialling can help collection companies reach out to its debtors to recover revenue.
Article: Vertical: Collections
Why Real-time Speech Analytics Drives Collections Success
Technology within the collections industry is more than helping to ensure compliance, its about delivering the best possible customer service where interactions can be difficult and stressful. Read our article to find out how Real-time Speech analytics can help deliver on both these critical requirements.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Businesses Are Failing to Measure or Monitor Customer Service Quality
Research highlights lack of consensus on what quality means and finds many businesses prevented by cost, resource and technology barriers from achieving it.
Make sure you’re not one of them! Read our latest article
Article: Unified Communications
Age of Interruption
With the world being dominated by digital technology where doing battle with a continuous stream of emails, instant messages and mobile phone calls has become a daily fact of life this is resulting in the “Age of Interruption” whereby workers are becoming “skimmers”, is this the same case when talking to your customers? Read our article to learn more.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Top Tips for Keeping your Processes up to Date
Getting your processes right and keeping them current relies heavily on the coming together of three different enterprise-wide initiatives. Read our article to learn more.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Top Tips – How to be a Connected Digital Enterprise
To gain traction in the market and build competitive edge, you need to get an insight into your customers’ digital footprints, the kinds of channels they like to interact over and the particular likes and dislikes they have.
The same is true of today’s digital enterprises, organisations increasingly need to build their own digital DNA. Take a look at our top tips.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Are you giving your customers, an easy life ?
Read our top tips to see how to make your services as easy as possible for your customers to deal with your organisation. It’s an important lesson for businesses to learn as 60% of respondents to recent survey said they had never done business with a brand again as a result of poor customer service.
Top Tips: Customer Experience
How to optimise customer access
Intelligently providing your customers with a choice of channels through which to communicate, based upon the nature of their need, can deliver a more efficient, lower effort experience and will differentiate your service from that of your competitors. Read our article to learn more
Top Tips: Customer Experience
Emotional Intelligence in the age of interruption
Most people are looking for effortless customer service. This is being driven at least in part by the need for speed. If people are interrupted multiple times during a day, they will increasingly want and need to get their own issues and concerns rapidly resolved. We discover more about emotional intelligence in the age of continuous interruption.
Whitepapers / Guides
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Six Habits of Self-service
Getting self-service right is not always easy. This guide highlights the key areas to focus on when to ensure that you are offering an effective customer experience.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Make the Contact Centre the Beating Heart of your Business
By harnessing the UC capabilities of Skype for Business and integrating them with your contact centre environment you can make customer communications more efficient, more satisfying for the customer, and ultimately more profitable for the business. Read this guide to find out how.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Setting up House
Housing Associations across the UK are under pressure to balance the need to cut costs and drive operational efficiencies whilst keeping levels of customer satisfaction high.
This Whitepaper demonstrates how technology can be brought to b ear in delivering a best practice for associations that enables them to overcome challenges, build more positive relations with tenants and face the future with confidence.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
Bringing Emotional to Customer Service in an Age of Interruption
Most people are looking for effortless customer service. Businesses need to embrace this and start evaluating the emotional content of their interactions with customers and the impact it has on customer experience.
This Whitepaper explores how organisations can start to develop the emotional intelligence they need to deliver a positive customer experience and use it to survive and thrive in today’s challenging business environment.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Age of the Independent Consultant – Forging a Role in Customer Interaction Management
Independent Consultants are often best placed to build engagement and trust quickly with customer driven organisations. Their agile operating models and specialist market expertise makes them well placed to capitalise on a business environment bringing with it rapid results. This Whitepaper highlights the role of the Independent Consultant and its importance within customer interaction management.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
Why Make Life Harder For Yourself
Customers want continuity & great customer service. They want you to know who they are, their interaction history & not having to repeat information. This Whitepaper explores the world of integrating people, processes and systems to create a truly integrated customer service experience.
Whitepaper: Customer Experience
What do people really think of Skype for Business in the contact centre?
Do enterprises really understand the benefits of Skype for Business? Read more of what our twitter community had to say, by downloading our WHITEPAPER: What do people really think of Skype for Business in the contact centre?
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
The Sense of Quality Survey
A new survey from us, polling the views of UK organisations reveals that many businesses are struggling to define quality customer service delivery, and thanks to cost and integration challenges, often failing to implement the necessary recording, monitoring and analytics tools to deliver it. Use your senses of quality to build the next gen of operational performance and quality management.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Why Digital DNA is the Lifeblood of the Modern Business?
This white paper highlights the importance of this digital DNA to business and explores approaches they can take to capture and leverage it to deliver business effiiciencies; achieve enhanced customer engagement and drive competitive edge.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
Are you listening to your customers and agents?
Traditionally, you build an approach around measuring statistics related to call handling from call volumes to call answer time; average call handle time; abandonment rates and queue time, for example. However, there are clearly some significant limitations with this approach to quality of the service and performance. Read our whitepaper to learn a new approach.
Whitepaper: Customer Experience
The Connected Enterprise
It’s a balancing act but for many companies today, the potential benefits outweigh the perceived risks, especially as UC platforms can be the catalyst that helps make the connected enterprise a reality. So, how can businesses start to put in place the building blocks of the connected enterprise by using unified communications technology together with the latest customer interaction technology? View some top tips to avoid the pitfalls and capitalise on the opportunities of a connected enterprise.
Whitepaper: Unified Communications
How to Build A Customer Centric Enterprise
Customers are the lifeblood of your organisation and should be at the heart of everything your employees do and should not solely be the concern of those in the front line of your organisation. It’s only when every employee defines their actions by the impact they have on the customer experience, can you consider yourself a truly Customer Centric Enterprise. Read our article to becoming a truly Customer Centric Enterprise.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Evolution of the Contact Centre
Over the past few years we have seen dramatic changes in the relationship between corporate business and customer. Download our whitepaper to help make the right choices in a rapidly changing world.
Whitepaper: Customer Experience
Building a Business Case for Cloud Contact Centres
This white paper takes a look at the issues businesses face in enhancing customer interactions and optimising their customer service; examines the on-going move away from physical contact centres towards a more virtual approach and explores the elements of building a business case for cloud.
Sponsored Reports
Sponsored Report: Contact Centre
Contact Babel UK Contact Centre Decision Maker’s Guide 2017-2018
This guide, sponsored by Enghouse Interactive, gives hard facts and data about every aspect of UK customer experience management, technology and strategy.
It also embraces AI and machine learning, along with customer personalisation, digital channels, robotic process automation and agent engagement.
Sponsored Report: Self-Service
Contact Babel Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service
Self-service is no longer a “nice to have”. It’s a necessity to providing a positive customer experience.
The Contact Babel Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service, sponsored Enghouse Interactive, is the definitive analyst study of how intelligent automated service – via IVR, speech, virtual agents, mobile and social channels – fits into the customer contact mix.
Sponsored Report: Outbound
Contact Babel: The UK Inner Circle Guide to Outbound & Call Blending
Platinum sponsors of this years Contact Babel “Inner Circle Guide to Outbound & Call Blending. The guide aims to give a detailed and definitive view of the role, drivers and future of outbound within the contact centre.
Sponsored Report: Contact Centre
Ventana Research: The Next Generation Contact Centre in the Cloud
The Executive Summary Report from Ventana Research highlights some of the key findings from their latest survey to determine attitudes towards and utilisation of cloud based contact centres.
Sponsored Report: Customer experience
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Call Center IQ: 2015/2016 Executive Report on the Omni-Channel Contact Centre
Today’s businesses are no longer debating the importance of the omni-channel customer experience; they recognise it as paramount. In widely embracing the omni-channel revolution, today’s marketplace has effectively ended the philosophical debate. Download the Enghouse sponsored omni-channel report.
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Contact Babel: The UK Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-Based Contact Centres
Platinum sponsors of this years Contact Babel “Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-based Contact Centre Solutions. The guide aims to give a detailed and definitive view of the reality of implementing, the business drivers, technology and market for cloud solutions and a view on what the future holds..
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Contact Babel: UK Inner Circle to Multichannel Customer Contact
Enghouse Interactive has partnered with ContactBabel to bring you the UK Inner Circle Guide to Multichannel Customer Contact. We hope that this guide will answer any questions you may have about the major issues affecting the contact centre industry and future multichannel strategy.
Sponsored Report: Contact Centres
Making the boat go faster: Enghouse Interactive and Olympic Gold Medalist Rower, share Best Practices for enhancing performance.
All the lessons of ‘making the boat go faster’ in elite sport can be transposed and shown to work in the world of customer service. Download our best practice guide for how businesses can win gold by enhancing the way they manage and interact with their customers.
Enghouse Interactive Surveys
Survey: Customer Experience
Consumer Survey Report: Providing Consumer Choice in a Multi-generational Marketplace
We surveyed 1000 consumers across varying age groups to identify customer service trends and how consumers want to interact with a business. Download the free survey to find out what customers expect from you.
Whitepapers: Customer Experience
The Senses of Quality Survey
A new survey from us, polling the views of UK organisations reveals that many businesses are struggling to define quality customer service delivery, and thanks to cost and integration challenges, often failing to implement the necessary recording, monitoring and analytics tools to deliver it. Use your senses of quality to build the next gen of operational performance and quality management.