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Coaching May Be the Best Opportunity for Call Center Improvement

We heard a great call center agent coaching story from one of our clients the other day.  The manager, who was responsible for overseeing and training nearly 30 call center agents, had been reviewing...

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Capturing Desktop Activity to Improve Healthcare Claims Processing

Many healthcare insurance payers struggle with a manual claims processing system that is built upon a set of confusing, complex steps and time-consuming manual procedures. This often leads to delays...

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Using Desktop Analytics to Determine Call Reasons

Desktop analytics in the contact center captures both what the actions agents do and the data they see. Actions include things like applications used, where they clicked, workflows initiated, or...

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How Reliable Are Your Call Reasons?

According to an Enkata survey, fewer than 10% of call center managers said they were able to answer the question “why do your customers call?” with and certainty. If your organization doesn’t...

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Does Your Contact Center Have a High Call Abandonment Rate?

Even with more and more enterprises boosting their social media presence to help with customer service and the growing popularity of self-service channels, research shows that the number of calls made...

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Why Accurate FCR Is Hard to Measure

It’s safe to argue that FCR (First Contact Resolution/First Call Resolution) is the single most important metric in a call center. Not only does an improved FCR rate help reduce costs (fewer callbacks...

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How Much Do Healthcare Claims Processing Mistakes Cost?

According to the American Medical Association almost one in five (19.3%) of medical claims processed by the largest commercial health insurers is inaccurate. Imagine being one of those patients that...

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Manual Claims Processing is A Major Concern for Payers

The cost of manual claims processing operations is top of mind for healthcare payer organizations. A survey from HealthEdge found that health insurance  executives cited “High rates of manual...

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Weathering the Claims Surge of the ICD-10 Super Storm

The switch to ICD-10 codes coming in October 2014 is expected to cause significant increases in manual claims processing workloads. Just like a perfect storm, this claims surge from ICD-10...

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Payers Need to Plan Now for Health Insurance Expansion

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 27 million uninsured will gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. As memberships begin to swell in 2014, health insurance payers must confront a...

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Three Ways to Reduce Customer Effort in the Contact Center

Customer effort reduction programs can have a dramatic impact on the customer experience your contact center delivers as well as on your company’s bottom line. 3-5% of your center’s call volume can be...

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Create a Better Customer Experience with Better Contact Center Coaching

The latest customer experience research report from Oracle revealed that 81% of consumers surveyed are willing to pay more for a superior customer experience. 44% even said they’d be willing to pay a...

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Tired of Picking up the Slack for Self-Service Failures?

When self-service channels like web or IVR fail to meet customers' expectations they pick up the phone and call. Anyone who has worked in a call center knows that a lot of calls start out with...

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3 Tips to Boost Your Call Center’s FCR

FCR is a key performance indicator for most contact centers. An FCR program encourages call centers to streamline their internal processes and provide better feedback and support for agents so they can...

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