Our blog, Outsourcing Insights, is written by members of our leadership team and provides practical, expert advice for contact center professionals — all designed to help your company grow!
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March
2022
Redundancy plan necessary to limit exposure By Scott Newman, CEO, Transparent BPO An innocent-sounding decision to help local businesses in the Philippines risks upending the BPO industry here. As with all government decisions, some background is helpful. During the height of the pandemic, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) announced…
20
May
2020
“While we’re not back to ‘business as usual,’ we are starting to see business reopen and adapt to a new normal,” said customer service expert Shep Hyken. We tend to agree with Hyken’s assessment, but for contact centers specifically, what does “business as usual” in this “new normal” look…
06
April
2020
by Scott Newman, CEO Over the past two weeks, Transparent BPO has undertaken a serious initiative — to deploy 850 brick and mortar contact center agents to a work-from-home (WFH) environment. This was no small task, and I am beyond proud of how our company responded to the business…
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January
2020
Each year, new trends emerge that contact center executives must pay attention to, and 2020 is no different. For that reason, we thought it would be helpful to share our views on seven trends we believe will impact centers this year and the foreseeable future. Some, such as the use…
03
December
2019
This post — part five of our Expert Interview Series — features customer experience strategy consultant Peter Ryan discussing 2020 CX trends. As we reach the cusp of the new year, what customer experience trends should enterprise brands and their outsourcing partners be watching? To answer that…
12
November
2019
I consistently hear from contact center professionals that attrition in 2019 is higher than ever, and many new-hire classes intended to accommodate seasonal ramps fall short of recruiting goals. But agent attrition has always been a burden on a company’s bottom line. When turnover runs rampant in the contact…
13
August
2019
Customer satisfaction with contact centers is down, according to the Contact Center Satisfaction Index 2019 from CFI Group, a market research firm. Customers are tired of long wait times, being passed from channel to channel or agent to agent, constantly repeating themselves, and, worse, not getting their problems resolved.
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July
2019
The story of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack accompanied by his sidekick Babe the Blue Ox, looms large in American folklore. One part of his story, popularized by Disney, involves a showdown between Bunyan, yielding his double-bladed ax, and a steam-powered chainsaw. A competition — “Man vs. Machine” —…
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June
2019
It’s no surprise to anyone in the contact center industry that customer expectations of service have changed thanks to advancements in technology, such as artificial intelligence, chatbots, and automation. But those aren’t the only catalysts for change. In its 2019 Customer Expectations Report, customer service software company Gladly revealed…
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March
2019
The call center industry continues to expand globally as companies seek to balance labor availability, labor costs, geopolitical stability, and business climate says the Site Selection Group (SSG) in its latest location trend report, which identified regions showing the highest rates of growth. The report’s findings are as follows:…