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Business Management & Continuity

Is it time to “move more slowly and maintain things”?

The need for maintenance in an ever-changing world. Mark Zuckerberg’s old motto “move fast and break things” has been held up for years  – depending on your point of view – as an example of all that’s best or all that’s wrong with Silicon Valley and tech titan’s impact on how we work in the 21st century.

Industry & CCP News

Going Dutch?

Why implementing the right multilingual contact centre strategy pays for itself. It’s plain to see that we live in a fully connected world. We can access most things instantly at the touch of a button, including connecting to businesses globally, no matter their location.

Business Management & Continuity

The cost-of-living crisis

Balancing debt recovery with customer and colleague support. It’s difficult to ignore or be unaware of the ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’. It’s everywhere, television, LinkedIn, radio, media platforms, and is inescapable.

Leadership, Employment & Resourcing

Is homeworking working?

Microsoft recently released some research that received lots of media attention including the BBC News

Customer Experience

Peak demand handling – the role of voice

As sure as night follows day, autumn follows summer, the nights get longer and thoughts for many will turn to handling peak demand, or for those who’ve just been through a peak – reviewing how it went and learning lessons for the next one.

Customer Experience

Mystery shopping

Are the customer service shelves bare?” Ambition and a desire for continuous improvement are all very well, but paranoia and curiosity are great motivators, too! Maybe that’s why there’s often something especially intriguing about the opportunity to look at how you’re performing in comparison with your peers and how your customer proposition stacks up next to your competitors.

Customer Experience

CX within the experience economy

CX within the experience economy – Delivering a consistent brand experience. Consumer access to brands has undergone a paradigm shift since the 1990s, with the advent of the mobile device, growth of social media and the ‘always on’ generations of the Millennials and Gen Z leading to a heightened awareness among customers.

Leadership, Employment & Resourcing

Harpur Trust v Brazel

Supreme court confirms pro-rating holiday pay for part-year workers is unlawful

Musings

How to grow a wildflower meadow in your contact centre

Why just letting the grass grow will never produce the desired result. Summer is over and my annual attempt to turn what was once a space to play a bit of footy with the kids into a colourful wildflower meadow has once again well and truly failed.

Musings

Not everything we see turns into gold

Looking past the glitter to avoid picking the fool’s gold…Understanding the role of sales in any organisation is not a complex thing. Keeping the sales role in some context, may not be so easily understood and may take the shine away from that first impression.