AI Contact Center Transformation: How and Why Now?
The contact center industry today is almost unrecognizable from its early days nearly 40 years ago.
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How do you establish and execute a purpose-built transformation agenda? Start by identifying large areas of opportunity.
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Centralize, standardize and harmonize back-office functions into a Global Business Services (GBS) model to save costs, increase service quality, leverage scale and respond quickly to business demand.
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Learn MoreFor decades, organizations have treated sales incentive compensation as a separate entity, isolated from the broader total rewards strategy. This isolation stems from historical operations, where sales compensation is designed and managed within Sales, with periodic budget oversight from Finance, while HR focuses on base pay, benefits and equity. Unfortunately, this siloed approach, further reinforced by outdated technology and entrenched business practices, limits companies from fully leveraging their total rewards strategy. As a result, I predict that by 2028, many companies will find their compensation processes ineffective, prompting a critical assessment of their alignment with desired priorities and values.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are comprehensive software platforms designed to integrate and manage all the core processes of an enterprise while recording transactions and their financial consequences to support the accounting and finance functions. ISG Software Research recently completed our Buyers Guide™ for ERP systems, designed to help enterprises that are replacing their existing ERP software to make the best choice, both in terms of the product’s performance as well as the customer experience. ERP systems are central to the operations of an enterprise, streamlining cross-functional operations using workflows and consolidating data created by departments such as finance, human resources, supply chain and customer relationship management into a unified database. This integration facilitates the accessibility of real-time data, enhancing situational awareness for executives and managers while boosting overall efficiency and productivity.
In a previous role I was actively involved with identifying and implementing dashboards and reports tracking key sales department metrics and KPIs for enterprise-size customers as well as high-tech growth companies. These included recognizable examples such as opportunity conversion rate, average deal size and sales velocity (length of time to close, won or lost). Wind the clock forward and in my role as an industry analyst I now talk to customers and have a wider view of the market.
With evolving buyers’ needs, finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) services are maturing. With rising buyer expectations, engagements are evolving from a transactional type to a strategic function. Check out ISG's unique archetype report to understand market trends and buyer archetypes.
Enterprises have begun reimagining the customer, employee and supplier journeys. They are choosing continuous design thinking, agile, lean and DevOps methodologies over the traditional waterfall approach. Read more to inform your sourcing decisions.