Contact Centers

The 19th Annual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindxChange brought thought leaders from around the globe to Huntington Beach, California to tackle their challenges with other customer experience (CX) experts. Participants discussed their shared challenges, successful customer solution implementations, and strategies for improvi...

The recent introduction of ChatGPT from artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI has captured the imagination of the world and moved AI further into mainstream conversation. ChatGPT is “humanizing” AI in a way that has not been experienced before, generating impressive content from relatively simple requests (or prompts) written in natural lang...

10 May 2023  |  North America

Retail Contact Center Growth Opportunities in North America—2023

Successful Providers Must Bridge the Physical and Digital Realms

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Preparing for a pandemic that lifts or redescends is top of mind for retailers that must navigate increasing foot traffic in stores and in malls with a large retail footprint. To mitigate economic headwinds, customer retention is key. Malls and retailers need new ways to entice pandemic-weary customers, and retailers must find the optimal mix of di...

Patients are consumers and expect excellent customer service for every product and service they buy. Patients invest in their health and set self-care management goals and play an active role in attaining health services. Improving a patient’s experience with digital solutions that give them more power is becoming the norm. These solutions includ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the shining star of contact center innovation and began gaining features, focus, and adoption in 2022. AI is enhancing capabilities across the contact center spectrum: from agent hiring and training, resource forecasting, and quality and performance management to process automation, workforce optimization, and custom...

The LATAM cloud contact center (CC) market grew substantially in 2022, driven by accelerated migration from premises-based contact center implementations. As organizations realize that providing superior customer experience (CX) is fundamental for competitive differentiation, they respond to growing customer expectations by delivering seamless, eff...

Frost & Sullivan's annual survey of contact center solution decision-makers revealed that employee engagement is a top priority for contact center organizations in 2023. Organizations with more employee engagement initiatives benefit from higher employee satisfaction (eNPS) levels and lower attrition. Those with more solutions that support employee...

To deliver a great customer experience, organizations today want a single view of customers across all touchpoints, which can be achieved through customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The goal for businesses is to capture and leverage the wealth of available customer data to have profitable, productive, value-rich, experience-enhancing,...

When COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 forced businesses to close physical locations, demand for digital options soared as employees shifted to working from home and customers sought alternative means of interaction. Australian organizations made major changes to their processes and technology to address the initial crisis. Their contact centers wer...