Outsource Consultants Hires New Vice President of Global Sales

Dave LaBatt - Outsource Consultants

Outsource Consultants, a leading call center outsourcing advisory firm, hired call center industry veteran Dave LaBatt as the Vice President of Global Sales in March 2017. Dave LaBatt has over 20 years of BPO and call center outsourcing experience and has sold and managed accounts with leading Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies in addition to … Read more

Field Service Future Trends Report Identifies Methods for Growing Revenue with Service Operations

Field Service USA

New study examines increasing business value from evolving customer touchpoints. Field Services USA have released their findings from its new report titled “Benchmarking Performance Marketing Adoption within Financial Services Strategies”. As of 2016, field services companies of all sizes are prepared to adopt cutting-edge technologies that increase efficiency, drive product development, and reduce costs associated … Read more

Say Hello to Eva—HDFC Bank’s New Customer Service Chatbot

AI Chatbot

Indian Bank HDFC has launched an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot for customer service called Eva. Eva can answer millions of customer service questions over multiple channels and is thought to be India’s first AI chatbot for the banking industry. The chatbot Analyzes and learns from thousands of sources and is able to provide simple answers on … Read more

Award Winning Co-Op Team Keep on Buzzing!

Claire Carroll, Head of Customer Service, Co-Op

For the Co-op Membership team, one award simply isn’t enough! This recognised and high performing call centre team are reaching for the stars with the Buzz resilience training they have completed..

Employees are ‘Less Engaged’ says New European Survey

MSPA

The latest results of the Net Happiness Score survey of the MSPA (Mystery Shopping Providers Association) Europe of 43,775 stores show a decline in the quality of employee engagement, with an average score of 31%, compared to 34% last quarter..

Contact Centre Week Europe Launches in 2017

CCW 2016 event

After more than a decade as the USA’s leading customer service and contact event, CCW (Customer Contact Week) is coming to Europe in 2017 for the first time ever. Now Europe will be able to experience CCW, the main destination where customer care, service and experience professionals unite to learn, be inspired and make long … Read more

Customer Engagement Leads to Competitive Advantage for B2B Companies, Says New Study

Customer service variables

According to a new report, the practice of Revenue Lifecycle Management—a prescriptive, systemic approach to maximizing revenue throughout the lifetime of the customer relationship—correlates directly with positive measures of corporate performance such as greater overall revenue growth, revenue expansion from existing customers and higher customer renewal rates..