Why small contact centres need cloud

Cloud technology holds just as much, if not more, power for small businesses and their call centres as it does for large ones, says Jed Hewson, director at cloud contact centre technology provider, 1Stream. “A lot of people think that cloud technology is best suited...

Contact centres in the cloud

As a developing market, the African continent is currently seeing much international interest and investment, says Pippa Wilson, portfolio manager: Cloud Solutions, Jasco Enterprise, The Jasco Group. This is resulting in large multi-national organisations, including...

Meeting customer 3.0 demands

Organisations need to empower contact centre agents and inject structure, meaning and leadership into their engagement with customers, says Interactive Intelligence. Speaking during a webinar with Chris Wood, MD at Engage Customer, Leon Stafford, Territory Manager at...

Learning culture key in call centres

There are few workplaces that are as stressful as a telecoms operator’s call centre. When a telecoms subscriber phones in, they’re often already disgruntled because there’s a problem with his or her service or bill. That means the agents in a telecoms call...

How to differentiate customer experience

The battle for the customer is shifting to new ground, away from the telephone to digital (email, web chat) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, and others). However, the delivery mechanism for customer experience remains the same: the contact centre agent or customer...

SA call centres get virtual, more cost effective

As the economy continues to struggle and as companies face increasing cost pressures – and as all sectors of the business come under the microscope – so the interest in leaner contact centres has grown. Consequently there is a noticeable shift towards a...