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7 questions Contact Centre Data Analysis can answer

 Industry Watch Corner

The lack of access to physical stores due to the pandemic has increased the traffic for contact centres worldwide. Contact centres are bridging the gap to communicate with customers, emergency helplines, on-call services, and inquiries. Even before contact centre agents were required to work from remote locations, Cisco’s 2020 survey revealed that 62% of decision-makers plan to implement a cloud contact centre in the coming year. 93% agree that technology is very important in creating a better customer experience. Contact centres are a treasure of data waiting to be discovered. They have data acquired through daily processes like telesales, telemarketing, customer surveys, collections by means of outbound services and customer services, emergency response past inbound services. Analyzing contact centre data can help not only the customers but the contact centre decision-makers as well, to improve service and increase efficiency. Artificial Intelligence-based software improves the customer experience by monitoring key phrases and then prompting the agent in giving proactive responses. They can identify challenging calls for agents to handle and route the calls depending on complexity. AI is also gaining popularity through chatbots and solving issues without the need for agent interference. Chatbots need to understand the tone of the customer and respond accordingly. A healthy Contact Centre must conserve excellent hardware and software solutions providing a direct impact on quality assurance/success metrics, call statistics, customer implementation, and proficient Contact Centre agents. Contact centres today can answer more than just calls. Let us look at what other questions can be unraveled through analyzing contact centre data.

1. Is the Customer Satisfied?

According to a 2019 survey by Deloitte Digital, Customer experience or CX is a high priority (57%) among the surveyed centers. Harvard Business Review found in a study that a focus on increasing (Customer Satisfaction) CSAT will help businesses retain 74% of customers for another year leading to a substantial increase in revenue. We can increase customer lifetime value by looking after the key determinants like customer acquisition, customer retention, and customer margin. IVR (Interactive Voice Recording) Systems have been in use recently to reduce the number of calls reaching an actual agent. Valuable insights on the reason for the call, the caller, Opt-out Rate, self-Services rates, and incorrect routes can be evaluated through IVR data.

Representative customer satisfaction metrics from FLASH, the analytical dashboard

Representative customer satisfaction metrics from FLASH, the analytical dashboard

2. Is your Product facing a regular or common problem?

Collating and categorizing issues is a great way to understand the product. A repeated complaint of the product needs to be fixed for future versions so that customers do not engage in expressing distress and reducing brand value. Categorizing these issues also helps in creating a common answer pool for contact centre employees. AI can be used to direct the calls to Subject Matter Experts to handle issues. This will reduce escalations and help employees with better ways to tackle problems. We can also perform sentiment mining to analyze the sentiment of the customers on service level parameters such as resolution effectiveness, feature variety, etc. by leveraging social media sentiments of the public on various products or services of clients for improved business services.

3. Is your Contact Centre Efficient?

First call resolution (FCR) is an important metric that measures the efficiency of the contact centre to solve issues in the first call. A long waiting time is another factor for low customer satisfaction. Measuring the average delay of calls or the call abandon rate or the response time will give us an idea about the need for more staffing to handle the surge in calls. Response time metrics and call resolution metrics are indicators of efficiency(image below depicts metrics from an AI-driven dashboard, FLASH). Customer Effort Analysis can be performed to measure the efforts spent by customers to get various services rendered through various touchpoints. Customer journey analysis can be used to identify the pain points that customers face while traversing channels for a specific purpose. Path analysis can help identify the patterns in the menu/caller path in a time slot. All metric dimensions can then be evaluated to arrive at actionable insights about the customer segment in qualifying dominant paths, dependent paths, and average time spent on the path, etc.

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4. Is your Employee productive?

Average Sales per Agent is the measure of sales that an agent closes within a time period. We can use this metric to award agents performing well and provide targets for employees to work towards. An agent’s Utilization and Average Handle Time are two primary contact centre metrics to focus on when trying to measure an agent’s productivity. We must also be careful of the escalations that an agent faces and train employees who need to improve performance.

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5. How many Customers at risk of attrition?

According to contactcenterpipeline.com, Attrition is considered the No. 1 challenge 27% (up from 19.2%) for contact centres in 2020. Measuring the Net Promoter Score or NPS of customers helps us to plan a better approach for managing customers who are at risk of attrition. Predicting churn rate qualifies the steady-state level of customers at any point in the network.

6. Are there any opportunities for Upsell and cross-sell?

Affinity analysis/association rules of mining are used to analyze the co-occurrence of relationships among activities performed by customers and discover the cross-sell/up-sell opportunities accordingly. Recommendation Systems help identify products customers need and help contact centres create personalized offers based on purchase history and products commonly bought together. Use of Uplift Modelling can be used to identify the right set of customers(the persuadable) to be targeted for marketing campaigns.

7. Can your competitor be a reason for low sales?

As contact centres are a hub of engagement, customers often give honest feedback on products. You also find that many potential clients are already using your competitor products. Employee engagement plays an important role in analyzing these potential risks to the business. Predicting the customer churn rate helps to identify the customers who are likely to leave the network.

Contact Centres are now moving into a space of self-service where customers are adapting to emerging artificial intelligence software and chatbots. Customers today do not like waiting for calls to be answered, they would rather finish queries through chatbots that do not consume time. IVR systems are slowly being replaced by intelligent assistants that provide human-like interactions. Having an advanced chatbot and analyzing its response can help you understand your customers. With these forms of service, direct calling and email, data is being collected from multiple sources. Decision-makers need regular reports to keep track of their performance. While automating this data is now a necessity, the use of AI to analyze this data is a competitive advantage. AI-based dashboards give you the insights needed to understand your data. They highlight possible improvements and forecast staffing depending on query traffic. They group dissatisfaction and anger sentiments and analyze agents who deal better with these emotions. Customer sentiments change with time, people are more impatient and now more sensitive due to long hours indoors. Many factors can be associated with good or bad performance and identifying these factors can be tricky for decision-makers. AI learning, analyses your data in real-time and helps you get a holistic view of your business. Analyzing and processing this data turns your contact center into an answering hub. Companies that ignore customer service face an inevitable fate of resentment and destroyed brand image. FLASH, a product by geniSIGHTS ensures your contact centre does more than just calls. FLASH is a one of a kind voice-powered AI tool that gives your contact centre the power to stay ahead of the competition and give highly efficient results. Our solution uses advanced analytical techniques through various statistical models and machine learning algorithms to qualify underlying patterns and mine hidden insights from data. It is lightweight and cloud-based, facilitating analysis at your fingertips even as you sit at home during this lockdown. Contact us at https://flash.genisights.com/ for a demo today.

Effective Decision Making

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The BI Survey research found that 58% of the surveyed companies relied more than half of their decisions on gut feel or experience over data. But two-thirds believe that information will be valued for decision making in the future. Highly data-driven organizations are 3X more likely to report significant improvement in decision-making, according to a survey by PWC.

The HiPPO effect, coined by Avinash Kaushik and reiterated by Bernard Marr in Forbes, is usually the most experienced, most powerful, or highest paid in the room. Once they voice their opinion, others find it disrespectful to voice their own. This may not lead to desired results. Let’s think if the decision would go on a similar path if the time and resources would be different. Given more time, you would probably rely on the opinion of a board of directors or your experienced colleagues. Will you still be completely confident?

   Data however changes this. You have an unbiased opinion based on facts that leads to better results. Data analytics uses information from all sources and simplifies it to visual representations that highlight what you need. You are now capable of viewing all your information in just one screen. But data is useless until interpreted. Data-driven decision making or DDMM lies in interpreting this data for actionable insights. A term fondly called as data storytelling is considered an art. Artificial intelligence-based complex algorithms make sure to see more than what the human eye and mind are capable of. These insights help drive your decisions in directions that lead to success. So you have got your data, got your insights from this data, why then have you not used it to make the decision given to you 10 minutes ago?

The problem with many AI solutions is the inability to get exactly what you want when you want. You have a ton of data and a ton of insights but how does your BI tool know what you need to reach the answer for the question given to you 10 minutes ago. You have knocked on the door of data analytics and are seeking the solution. But can’t you just ask?

FLASH, by geniSIGHTS, gives you the power to simply talk to your BI tool and seek the information you need to come to the decisions that will open the right doors. In turn, FLASH also talks back to you with insights. FLASH is a one of a kind voice-powered dashboard that provides quick insights into your organization’s metrics. It goes beyond the functionality of Business Intelligence and uses conversational AI in the dashboard to respond to queries and generates real-time insights for actionable decision-making.

FLASH is AI-driven, lightweight, and easy to use.  It can easily be integrated with your existing data systems without having any extra software. It is also accessible from any location and insights can be exported and shared with the members of your organization. The visualization can be customizable and easily understood without any expert knowledge of data. FLASH ensures that your entire team is on the same page, making your user experience smooth and without any delay. Unlike other solutions, FLASH learns continuously to understand what you need for your business and becomes your virtual data assistant over a period of time.

FLASH is your AI agent who has all the answers you need to make decisions in a FLASH. We have seen how Amazon’s Alexa has made life easier. Shouldn’t your dashboard be able to do that? Now you can make your decisions within 10 minutes and be sure of it.

FLASH gets you what you need, you simply need to ask it. Check out FLASH at https://flash.genisights.com/