Africa needs data centres fast

Sybrand Pretorius, sales director at Flexenclosure, says there is a solution at hand to fill Africa’s need for data centres. Every day people around the world generate 500-million tweets, post 4,3-billion Facebook messages and make 6-billion Google searches. And...

Tips for making the call centre more efficient

According to a recent KPMG analysis, growth and technology are two of the biggest challenges affecting the chief financial officer (CFO), with 70% finding that technology has the biggest impact on their roles. They are expected to research ingenuity and invest in...

Things to consider for your contact centre

Rapidly developing technologies and the need to integrate customer services across all channels has significantly changed the contact centre space in the last few years. Regardless of the motivation for a business having a contact centre, and whether it is inbound or...

Please stop calling! Or should they?

Delia Gross, executive for the In-Touch Outbound Contact Centre at Innovation Group South Africa, outlines a few things to consider before you hang up on yet another call centre agent. You’re already late for a board meeting and your phone is ringing for the...

3 habits of successful contact centres

It’s easy to disparage poor performance in contact centres – we all experience an unfavourable experience at times – repeated calls, ill-equipped agents and a lack of efficient resolution. What is a bit more challenging is knowing what goes on behind...

Algorithms at work in the contact centre

Interactive voice recognition (IVR) is a technology that was first used in the 1970s by bank tellers to verify customer balances. It followed other phone technologies such as touch-tone dialing, 1-800 numbers, private branch exchanges (PBX), and is a precursor to the...