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<title>1:1 Customer Service Best Practice #3: Take Your Contact Center Routing Out of the Queue</title>
<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s highly competitive business environment, defining agent skills based on Automated Call Distributor (ACD) queues or types of calls isn&#8217;t enough anymore.  You need to be able to route the interaction to a resource that is qualified to not only answer questions, but also has the appropriate skills and skill levels to repair a damaged relationship. Register now for this webinar and learn how you can find the BEST available agent with the right skill profile and not the longest available agent.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=620149&amp;s=1&amp;k=39113A8B085F4FFC110BC9734BEB5BCB&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Should You &quot;Switch-off&quot; Your ACD? Hear Why CareFirst BCBS is Switching to a SIP-based Contact Center</title>
<description><![CDATA[If your ACD-based contact center has become a road block for adding capacity or adding channels such as social media and mobile, you might want to think about making the switch to a SIP-based Contact Center solution. Register now for this webinar and hear the CareFirst BCBS success story.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/webinar-page/care-first-bcbs.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How SIP Delivers Your Next-Generation Customer Service Platform</title>
<description><![CDATA[Register now for this webinar. Keith Dawson from Ovum will discuss how to build a roadmap to transition from legacy contact centers based on ACD/PBX switching systems to a more modern, flexible, fully-capable contact center based on SIP.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/analyst-webinar-with-ovum.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Next-Generation Government for the Next-Generation Customer</title>
<description><![CDATA[White House initiatives are challenging you to bring the customer experience found in private business to your public sector customers. Hear from Ovum Government Technology Analyst regarding Customer Experience Management (CEM) in the US Government. And join us every 3rd Tuesday of the month for 30 minutes at 11am PST thru September for the entire educational series addressing how government can take a more sophisticated view of what customer experience means to the public sector.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Harness the Power of Digital Channels in Virtual Enterprise </title>
<description><![CDATA[This complimentary half day seminar addresses ways in which to best handle digital channels, empower resources throughout the organisation to effectively engage with customers and use downtime more efficiently to grow skills and meet customer needs.]]></description>
<link>http://content.genesyslab.com/NZSeminar/Home-DigitalChannelsinVirtualEnterprise/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Engineer&amp;#8217;s Dilemma - the Customer Service Dilemma - and Star Trek</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jeff-woodland/2013/the-customer-service-dilemma.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Does Your WFM Solution Have These Six Capabilities?</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/does-your-wfm-solution-have-these-six-capabilities.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Launches New Proactive Engagement Solution for E-commerce and Web Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Daly City, Calif. &#8211; May 15, 2013 &#8211; Genesys, a leading provider of customer service and contact center solutions, today at G-Force Boca Raton announced the launch of Genesys Proactive Engagement, a powerful new offering that increases web sales and first contact resolution for customer service. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-launches-new-proactive-engagement-solution-for-e-commerce-and-web-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Dreaded Customer Care Four Letter &amp;#8220;F-Bomb&amp;#8221;</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/the-dreaded-customer-care-four-letter.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>ACCE Conference &amp; Expo</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hear the industry&#8217;s most innovative presenters to speak about the challenges, solutions and the future of customer service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.icmi.com/ACCE</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>G-Force 2013 Boca Raton</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys brings hundreds of customer service experts, visionaries and thought leaders together to share the latest in best practices and innovation at G-Force &#8211; the industry&#8217;s premier contact center and customer service event.]]></description>
<link>http://www.gforceboca.com/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>It&amp;#8217;s Not You, It&amp;#8217;s Me ... When (Customer) Relationships Break Down</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/its-not-you-its-me.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Mistakes, Lies, and Training</title>
<description><![CDATA[I hate to make mistakes.  I know I am human. I tell myself we all mistakes.  But big or small, consequential or meaningless, they bum me out. The worst kinds involve watching a simple slip-up cascade into a growing series of headaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jeff-woodland/2013/mistakes-lies-and-training.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Your Contact Routing Designed for the Masses?</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/is-your-contact-routing-designed-for-the-masses.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Revealed: Why Back Office Employees Can&amp;#8217;t Get Their Work Done</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/revealed-why-back-office-employees-cant-get-their-work-done.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>One-to-One Customer Service. Best Practice #2: One-to-One Routing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Managing a dynamic contact center requires an understanding of who the customer is, identifying intent, and then directing the customer to the most cost effective resource. Register now for this webinar. You will learn how any to any routing can create a memorable and meaningful customer experience.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=610893&amp;s=1&amp;k=4E078FEDAD54F70476FBC6E7D6558905&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Signs of the Contact Center Perfect Storm</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/three-signs-of-the-contact-center-perfect-storm.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Your Customer Service Architecture A House Divided?</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/is-your-customer-service-architecture-a-house-divided.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Hey Consumer Brands &amp;#8211; It&apos;s Time to Get Your Social Service On</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ethan-francis/2013/hey-consumer-brands.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Does your Contact Center Architecture look like a Frankenstein Monster?</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the famous novel written by Mary Shelley, eccentric scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment that we know as a Frankenstein.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/does-your-contact-center-architecture-look-like-a-frankenstein-monster.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Real Definition of On-Time Delivery and Three Ways to Keep Up</title>
<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the real definition of on-time delivery?  According to a recent book titled Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit, the real definition for on-time delivery is not defined by anyone except the customer and standards are dynamic and getting tougher daily.  Companies like Amazon are resetting the definition and changing the way customers think about on-time delivery.  How do Amazon&#8217;s standards apply to your operation? See what these authors are saying&#8230;]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/the-real-definition-of-on-time-delivery-and-three-ways-to-keep-up.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>One-to-One Customer Service Best Practice #1 - Maximizing Customer Value</title>
<description><![CDATA[Customer segmentation strategies help focus on servicing, retaining, and developing high value customers.  Low value/low opportunity customers are directed to lower-cost service options such as self service or assisted service. But this approach could be costing you customers and revenue. Register now for this webinar. Learn how to design contact center routing that maximizes customer value while improving customer experience for all your customers.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=607829&amp;s=1&amp;k=51ADD2890581A096C252BF42454447E2&amp;partnerref=web </link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Your Service Level Goals - 80/20 is so Retro!</title>
<description><![CDATA[Your Service Level Goals - 80/20 is so Retro!]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stuart-walters/2013/your-service-level-goals.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Six Benefits to Calculate WFM Solution ROI</title>
<description><![CDATA[Workforce Management solutions have been around for years and for most current users, they can&#8217;t live without the advanced tools they have become accustomed to using for Forecasting, Scheduling, Reporting, and Real-time Management.  

Today, use of Workforce Management solutions has expanded beyond the contact center.   Many companies are using the WFM solution for back-office, branches and beyond (think enterprise) and companies are recognizing the same performance improvements they realized when implemented the solution in the contact center.
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/six-benefits-to-calculate-wfm-solution-roi.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>8th Annual Call Centre Week Canada</title>
<description><![CDATA[Please join Genesys at the 8th Annual Call Center Tradeshow in Toronto. You will be provided with cutting edge insights and strategies from the leaders of successful call centres allowing you to take your operations to the next level.]]></description>
<link>http://www.callcentrecanada.ca/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SOCAP International 2013 Symposium</title>
<description><![CDATA[SOCAP 2013 is your exclusive opportunity to engage one-on-one with other customer care professionals within your vertical, exploring and examining the trends, topics and questions most relevant to your industry.]]></description>
<link>http://www.socap.org/ConferencesEvents/2013Symposium.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Still Think Speech Analytics or VoC has no ROI?</title>
<description><![CDATA[For the past decade, there has been increasing desire within contact centers to improve upon customer satisfaction and experience, in order to keep customers loyal and profitable for longer.

In the early days of the call center industry, supervisors listened in with their agents and gave direct feedback or used spreadsheets to keep track of quality and performance. Very quickly this process was replaced by call recording solutions and call quality measurement forms. This category is called &#8216;Quality Management&#8217;.
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/still-think-speech-analytics-or-voc-has-no-roi.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys at IQPC Call Centre Canada</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefanie-bohlman-smith/2013/genesys-at-iqpc-call-centre-canada.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>One-to-One Customer Service &amp;#8211; Best Practice Number Two: One-to-One Routing</title>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true that inbound calls will probably never go away completely from the contact center environment.  But as new customer interaction channels continue to emerge with email, chat, SMS, video, social media, and mobile applications, the traditional call center faces the challenge of evolving from a call center to a contact center, and ultimately to a customer care center.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/one-to-one-customer-service-best-practice-number-two-one-to-one-routing.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>CRM and Customer Experience &amp;#8211; What&amp;#8217;s the Diff?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about customer experience and how it suddenly has become such a hot topic these days. As we shared ideas, my friend mentioned that it all sounded very similar to the discussions we had years ago when CRM was first introduced &#8211; he asked what the difference between customer experience and CRM was.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2013/crm-and-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Enterprise-wide Customer Service with Microsoft Lync and Genesys Smart Link</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Smart Link integrates with Microsoft Lync and maps presence to ensure real-time availability of back-office knowledge workers, remote office specialists, and other enterprise staff, to provide high-value customer engagement. Register now for this webinar. We will present a LIVE DEMO of three integration strategies.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=605326&amp;s=1&amp;k=5206804AA57537361A10B480AD6E1F5F&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>New Sleek Bank Branch Overhauls &amp;#8211; What Does it Really Mean to Customer Experience?</title>
<description><![CDATA[There has been so much debate around whether bank branches are here to stay or go, There are of-course many different ways banks are attempting to design the esthetics of the branches &#8211; whether they should be more caf&#233; style, whether it is appropriate that they should hold yoga sessions in the morning &#8211; that is all up to the bank and the niche market they are going after.  However I would like to share personal customer experiences at two separate banks with new revamped and modernized branches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/monica-hovsepian/2013/new-sleek-bank-branch-overhauls.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Dialing In to Customer Service Innovation at G-Force 2013</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/aaron-lewis/2013/dialing-in-to-customer-service-innovation-at-g-force-2013.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Fixing Your Agent Attrition Problem</title>
<description><![CDATA[When you google &#8216;call center&#8217; and &#8216;turn over rates&#8217; you&#8217;ll get a number of alarming stats that range between twenty to thirty-five percent.  You&#8217;ll easily find a number of posts on how to calculate the actual number &#8211; what to count and not to count, etc.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/fixing-your-agent-attrition-problem.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Your Customer Service Lynced In?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Independent research shows that the most important success factor for providing good customer service is having competent people to assist customers regardless of technologies, channels, or industries. Contact Center agents are often the primary and sometimes only contact a customer has with a company, which makes matching the right agent with the right customer critical. Executing on a &#8216;one-to-one&#8217; agent and customer relationship is a challenge because the most competent people able to resolve customer issues promptly, or close a sale, are often outside the Contact Center in some other department within the Enterprise. Additionally, the right person could be in the back office, the branch office, or specialists in their remote or home offices.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/deepak-dutta/2013/is-your-customer-service-lynced-in.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Reasons for Advanced Granular Shrinkage</title>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Call Center School&#8221; defines workforce shrinkage as &#8220;the amount of time agents are paid to be there but are not available to take calls&#8221;.  This includes some things that are not changeable, such as vacations and breaks, but there is often a fair amount of time lost due to agents just not being in place and available when the schedule is expecting them to be.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/three-reasons-for-advanced-granular-shrinkage.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Tips to Maximize Customer Value with 1:1 Routing</title>
<description><![CDATA[With increased pressure on cost control, it is essential for businesses to utilize their resources in the most optimal way and drive better business outcomes. To help accomplish this, businesses must understand customer value and opportunity value when evaluating the handling of an interaction.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/three-tips-to-maximize-customer-value-with-11-routing.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>In Customer Service The People Matter Most</title>
<description><![CDATA[The events of the Boston Marathon this week and the images that emerge of people helping people, of the spirit of a community coming together in crisis, causes me pause to reflect on perhaps the most important attribute of customer service leadership: helping people.  If your customer service isn&#8217;t rooted in hiring, training, developing and rewarding people helping people &#8211; then you&#8217;ll lose both employee and customer faster than you can count to ten.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/in-customer-service-the-people-matter-most.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Toward a More Personalized Banking Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[What does personalized banking service look like today? Remember when personalized service from your bank meant that a teller in the local branch recognized you?  Today, many people struggle to remember the last time they spoke with a teller or even stepped inside a branch.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/aaron-lewis/2013/toward-a-more-personalized-banking-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Reasons to Keep AHT a Secret in your Contact Center</title>
<description><![CDATA[Every time I walk in to a Contact Center when visiting one I look at the walls. Why? Because that is typically where last weeks performance metrics are posted. You can learn a great deal about organizations when you look at these numbers. 

The one question I always ask is: &#8220;Who uses these numbers?&#8221; and the answer is always &#8220;our agents of course&#8221;. And being the Columbo I am I always ask the agents: &#8220;Do you ever look at these stats?&#8221;. And the answer is typically: &#8220;No, I have no idea what they mean. And if I would, there is not much I can do about it.&#8221;

The last part of the employee&#8217;s answer is rather telling.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/three-reasons-to-keep-aht-a-secret-in-your-contact-center.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are Tablets Their Own Channel And Does It Matter?</title>
<description><![CDATA[At a Retail Banking conference last year, I attended a session where one of my most admired analysts was on the panel and the discussion was around Digital Channels.  One of the hottest topics, no matter what the industry &#8211; should banks consider tablets a new channel, are they different from the online channel?  Should mobile be considered a separate channel?  
Forrester calls tablets cool!  In fact, they predict that by the year 2016, 106 million people in the seven major Western European countries will own a tablet, while more than 112 million people will own one in the US1.
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/monica-hovsepian/2013/are-tablets-their-own-channel-and-does-it-matter.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys LATAM Office Move and New Support Numbers - May 27</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/support-announcements/genesys-latam-office-move-and-new-support-numbers-may-27.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Migration Strategies for Contact Center Virtualization</title>
<description><![CDATA[Migrating from a legacy TDM based contact center with site/queue based routing to a virtualized customer service environment with intelligent routing may seem like a daunting task. Register now for this webinar. We will present use cases with specific recommendations and best practices.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=603325&amp;s=1&amp;k=02B6AD6FA612BC53AAA459E35F3E948E&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Ingredients for Creating Customer Lifetime Value</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the paper &#8216;Putting the Service-Profit Chain to work&#8217; published by Harvard Business Review, the economics of creating customer lifetime value are described in a very clear way. 

The paper was published back in 2000. That&#8217;s right, 13 years ago but when reading this paper I was struck by how valid it is today.

The concept in essence says that optimizing your metrics or business units in silo&#8217;s will possibly drive efficiencies and short term margins, but that focusing on the bigger picture and connecting the dots can unleash sustainable growth and profit.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/seven-ingredients-for-creating-customer-lifetime-value.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Society of Workforce Planning Professionals </title>
<description><![CDATA[The SWPP Annual Conference will provide multiple educational sessions, facilitated discussions on relevant topics, and a vendor showroom, as well as great food, exciting entertainment, and spectacular fun! Learn from industry experts and your peers in over 60 different sessions during this exciting event.]]></description>
<link>http://www.swpp.org/annual-conference/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Key to Lowered Customer Churn in Insurance Reduce Your Customers&apos; Effort</title>
<description><![CDATA[How setting up a Customer Effort Index can radically increase Top-Line Revenue We've all experienced one of the greatest paradoxes in the insurance industry &#8211; encouraging customers to be disloyal. Whether it&#8217;s offering an existing customer much higher renewal levels while dramatically reducing offers to others to encourage them to leave their existing supplier, or simply not having the appropriate channels by which to enable a customer to communicate with customer service. Companies must radically re-think the rationale for customer service spend &#8211; it's not about reducing your customer service costs, it&#8217;s about stopping and not encouraging customer churn, and having a positive impact on your top-line revenue.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/the-key-to-lowered-customer-churn-in-insurance-reduce-your-customers-effort.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Steps to Contact Center Maturity</title>
<description><![CDATA[Contact centers very frequently start small and evolve leading to silod operations that are built around lines of business or geographic areas.
As businesses grow additional centers are often added or outsource partners brought-in to gain &#8216;speed-to-market&#8217; or create extra capacity at a lower cost. This brings higher levels of complexity and increasing potential for customer and employee frustration.
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/four-steps-to-contact-center-maturity.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four use cases for Virtual Customer Service &amp;#8211; Part Four</title>
<description><![CDATA[Another flavor of virtualization is the ability for contact center agents to work from home. Home working has a number of advantages for both the employee and the employer. Even environmental considerations can be reasons to introduce the home working concept.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/four-use-cases-for-virtual-customer-service-part-four.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Tips for the CIO about  Customer Communication Enabled Architectures</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the early days of call and contact centers, CIO&#8217;s often had little to look after when it came to designing the customer communication architecture. The main (and often only) channel to provide customer service was through a PABX and typically one organisational unit, the call center, was the key customer of this device. Of course transactional applications such as case management and later CRM had to be provisioned but all-in-all it was fairly straightforward.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/three-tips-for-the-cio-about-customer-communication-enabled-architectures.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Make it Easy &amp;#8211; Customer Effort in a Multichannel World</title>
<description><![CDATA[Low customer effort is the corner stone of customer loyalty. To win customer loyalty and increase customer spend, you need to think about reducing customer effort by making their interactions easy, quick and simple. Learn best practices for making it easy for customers to do business with you.]]></description>
<link>https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1015141&amp;sti=web</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Multi-Channel Mess</title>
<description><![CDATA[How effective would you be if you had four or five buckets of work on your desk and you were expected to complete the work before the end of the day?  But wait, there&#8217;s more!  The phone rings every minute or so with an important call from one of several hundred people you support and these calls require your full attention.  When the call ends, you attempt to select the best job from one of your buckets.  These buckets of work are not highly prioritized and there is no value correlation between buckets.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/the-multi-channel-mess.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four use cases for Virtual Customer Service &amp;#8211; Part Three</title>
<description><![CDATA[In this series of 4 blogs about Virtual Customer Service, I will reveal a use cases for considering Virtual Customer Service. In the introduction you can read about the rationale behind Virtual Customer Service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/four-use-cases-for-virtual-customer-service-part-three.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Desjardins Group to Upgrade its Customer Contact Centers with Genesys</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/desjardins-group-to-upgrade-its-customer-contact-centers-with-genesys.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Delighting Your Customers</title>
<description><![CDATA[We in the contact center are traditionally committed to delighting our customers.  Anything we can do to go above and beyond the needs of our customers to connect them more closely with our organization is the Holy Grail.  Net Promoter scores are often used to measure how well a contact center experience performed in creating a new customer advocate willing to promote your brand to their friends and your potential customers.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2013/delighting-your-customers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Perfect Practice Makes Perfect in Performance Management</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/perfect-practice-makes-perfect-in-performance-management.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A &amp;#8216;Tip&amp;#8217; to Increase Agent Engagement</title>
<description><![CDATA[Many things have been written about how technology can make the life of a contact center agent more efficient but often the human side of life is forgotten about.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/a-tip-to-increase-agent-engagement.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>To Infinity and beyond...how Buzz Lightyear can rescue the customer experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the classic Disney film trilogy Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear uses the now iconic catch phrase, &#8220;to infinity and beyond&#8221; as his &#8216;clarion call&#8217;. In today&#8217;s customer experience driven world this phrase should be our clarion call too, why? Because the worlds of customer service and Employee Engagement can no longer be seen as separate domains they have become inextricably linked in ways that mean that decisions in one area can have an infinite number of consequences on the experience in the other.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/to-infinity-and-beyond-how-buzz-lightyear-can-rescue-the-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Five Ways Customer Service, Good or Bad, Impacts Loyalty</title>
<description><![CDATA[With today&#8217;s consumer being so connected, whether it&#8217;s to devices, digital content or to each other, it&#8217;s time that companies also provide a connected customer experience. The passive attitude that isolates customers in channel silos or dead-end processes is out of tune with digital consumers.  It&#8217;s time to change.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/five-ways-customer-service-good-or-bad-impacts-loyalty.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Join Genesys Customers at G-Force This May</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Genesys G-Force 2013 conference is taking place May 15-16 in Boca Raton Florida.  Every year, this event brings together a large group of customer service experts to share experiences and best practices &#8211; and every year, people leave with new inspiration and ideas.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/aaron-lewis/2013/join-genesys-customers-at-g-force-this-may.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Use Cases for Virtual Customer Service &amp;#8211; Part Two</title>
<description><![CDATA[In this series of four blog posts about Virtual Customer Service, each time I will reveal a use cases for considering Virtual Customer Service. In the introduction  you can read about the rationale behind Virtual Customer Service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/four-use-cases-for-virtual-customer-service-part-two.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Contact Center Routing Strategies for Improving Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[Register now for this webinar. An intelligent routing strategy goes beyond reducing wait times or call resolution times. While operational efficiency is an essential objective, the bigger payoff of intelligent routing comes from improving the customer experience.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=593756&amp;s=1&amp;k=1AA2305EAD6727026798018F3DCFDC06&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Multichannel Customer Service &amp;#8211; Huge Need, Huge Payoff</title>
<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of chatter recently on multichannel customer service and never has multichannel service been so important nor the payoff to business more obvious.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ted-hunting/2013/multichannel-customer-service-huge-need-huge-payoff.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why Contact Center Routing Is Essential to Customer Satisfaction</title>
<description><![CDATA[Want to improve customer satisfaction with your service? The first thing to do is to look at your routing strategies.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/why-contact-center-routing-is-essential-to-customer-satisfaction.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>7 Ways People are the Heart and Soul of Business Process Management</title>
<description><![CDATA[Who or what is the real heart and soul of business process management? Is it identifying the processes that generate the highest quality products and services, or documenting and implementing a quality system?  Increasingly companies are recognizing that the heart and soul of their BPM processes is, in-fact, its people.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/7-ways-people-are-the-heart-and-soul-of-business-process-management.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Completes Acquisitions of Angel.com and Utopy</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-completes-acquisitions.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Launches Consultant Liaison Program</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-launches-consultant-liaison-program.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Contact Center Conference Spring 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Contact Center Conference is one of the 2 meetings held by the Call Center Association every year.
Come learn about Genesys One.
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<link>http://www.contactcenterassociation.com/Item/1292/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Enterprise Connect</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys: The world-wide leader in Contact Center solutions. Stop by Booth 500 for a chance to win an iPhone 5. <br> <strong>Special Offer from Genesys:</strong> Save 40% off the on-site price for the Entire Event and Tue-Thu Conference Packages or register for a Free Expo Pass with Priority Code EIGENESYS.]]></description>
<link>http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Use Cases for Virtual Customer Service &amp;#8211; Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[In this series of four blog posts about Virtual Customer Service I will reveal a new use case for considering Virtual Customer Service. In the introduction you can read about the rationale behind Virtual Customer Service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/four-use-cases-for-virtual-customer-service-part-1.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Avoid the Denzel Dud Double Feature: Taking a holistic approach to social customer care</title>
<description><![CDATA[I am a true aficionado of great actors in bad movies. In fact, to fully celebrate my quirky cinematic tastes, I developed an idea called the Denzel Dud Double Feature&#8212; the first edition would include a back-to-back viewing of Denzel Washington&#8217;s 1995 virtual reality trashterpiece &#8220;Virtuosity&#8221; and the 1998 evil soul terrorizes Philadelphia misfire &#8220;Fallen.&#8221; My appreciation for films like these stems from seeing that even the most acclaimed actors, in this case including Denzel Washington, John Goodman, James Gandolfini, Louise Fletcher, and Russell Crowe, cannot rise above their material; I savor the juxtaposition of actors able to convey a huge range of emotions with just their eyes trapped in a film with a script seemingly written by a second-grade student or a director who could not organize two cans into a line, let alone orchestrate a huge cast and crew into making a work of art.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ian-jacobs/2013/avoid-the-denzel-dud-double-feature.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>webRTC - The Future of Real-time Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Register now for this webinar. <strong>Genesys</strong> and <strong>Google Chrome </strong>for Business will share their vision for how real-time voice and video conversations can take place from the browser, without any plugins or extensions.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=591059&amp;s=1&amp;k=0D9E76113E963AFF6BC756E7F049FCD0&amp;partnerref=web</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four use cases for Virtual Customer Service - Introduction</title>
<description><![CDATA[For many years customer service professionals  have implemented the concept of &#8220;virtual call centers&#8217;&#8217; to optimize efficiencies across their operations, but today companies can benefit from a new vision we call &#8216;virtual customer service&#8217;. This series of blogs will introduce Virtual Customer Service and its benefits to you, presenting four use cases that are making a difference for companies worldwide.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/four-use-cases-for-virtual-customer-service-introduction.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys at Enterprise Connect</title>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprise Connect &#8212; How Communications and Collaboration Transform BusinessWireless, video, Unified Communications, contact centers, SIP Trunking, the Cloud...all of these topics and more make up the focus for Enterprise Connect 2013, the leading conference and exposition on enterprise communications and collaboration.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefanie-bohlman-smith/2013/genesys-at-enterprise-connect.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Who Do You Blame When The Shopper Walks Out?</title>
<description><![CDATA[As a female, I have no problems asking for directions &#8211; unlike my male counterparts. However, when it comes to shopping, I&#8217;m always weary when a retail associate approaches me as soon as I walk in, asking if I need any help.  This isn&#8217;t a sexist comment, just a fact, where a lot of studies have been done that have identified that male shoppers exhibit very different shopping traits from their female counterparts.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/monica-hovsepian/2013/who-do-you-blame-when-the-shopper-walks-out.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Next Generation Insurance Summit</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bringing together decision makers from across the US Insurance sector who understand that achieving growth in today's market requires adopting new technologies and management strategies in order to squeeze unnecessary costs out of the system, improve productivity and meet demands of future regulatory changes.]]></description>
<link>http://www.nginsurancesummit.com</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>webRTC Will Revolutionize Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[We're putting the final touches on the March 14th seminar on webRTC &#8211; Changing the future of Real-time Customer Service.  Vidya Nagarajan from Google will be joining me to talk about this exciting new technology and its potential impact on customer service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jim-kraeutler/2013/webrtc-will-revolutionize-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Demystifying Social and Mobile Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Social media and mobile technologies have radically changed how consumers communicate, interact with, share and spread information. But, while the public adores new technology, it can give customer experience executives heartburn. Customers can voice their opinions on Facebook, Twitter and other social channels, anytime, anywhere using their phones. These outlets give customers more power and leverage than they&#8217;ve ever had before &#8212; especially when problems arise. One moment of anger or frustration can turn into a hasty, 140-character rant that could potentially reach millions of people.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2013/demystifying-social-and-mobile-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Ways to Translate Customer Service Goals into Exceptional Experiences</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's great to have a Vision that articulates these sorts of goals. However, the more clients I work with, and the more goals I hear, the more they all start to sound the same. They risk becoming generic platitudes. It doesn't mean that these goals are wrong or that they aren't a great place to begin. But they aren't enough to create an exceptionally new future that differentiates a company's unique brand value.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/lizanne-kaiser/2013/three-ways-to-translate-customer-service-goals-into-exceptional-experiences.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>OMG! Mobile and Social Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Learn best practices for integrated customer service. Find out how to take a holistic approach across all channels is the key.]]></description>
<link>https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=588560&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=C4DF2211B85A06A463DBF71922A26659&amp;partnerref=WEB&amp;sourcepage=register</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Utility Customer Experience Management</title>
<description><![CDATA[It is critical for utilities to make customer satisfaction a priority and improve their efforts in order to maintain existing accounts as well as attract new ones.The 4th Annual Utility Customer Experience Management event will focus on maximizing residential and commercial customer satisfaction by leveraging new initiatives and emerging technology.]]></description>
<link>http://www.marcusevans-conferences-northamerican.com/marcusevans-conferences-event-details.asp?EventID=19725</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What Will Google Glass Bring to Customer Service?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The new Google glasses (called &#8220;Glass&#8221;) were all over the tech news last week.  This combination smart phone, network PC, and glasses have me thinking how a simple set of eyewear has the potential to advance customer service. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ted-hunting/2013/what-will-google-glass-bring-to-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How to Fund Your Customer Care Project</title>
<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re in a big company in a competitive industry. You have some great ideas to improve your customer care systems and boost your team to new heights. That&#8217;s great. But of course there&#8217;s always competition for development dollars. Here are some concrete ideas to get the attention of management to fund your project. This is part 1 of a multi-part blog.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/lawrence-hodgson/2013/howtofund.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>5 Weekly To-do List Items for Every Contact Center Manager</title>
<description><![CDATA[Contact center managers are busy people and always have something going on. How will I make my service levels again today?  Should I make strategic decisions about outsourcing staff or not? How do I drive consistency and efficiency across channels?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/5-weekly-to-do-list-items-for-every-contact-center-manager.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>North American Customers Transforming Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[As the head of NA Sales Operations for Genesys I am lucky to be in a unique position to talk daily with some incredibly smart customer service people in various industries who are leading the way in transforming customer service.  For my first blog I wanted to provide a few snippets from customers I have spoken with in the last couple weeks.

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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/eric-entzeroth/2013/ericsview.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Measuring Customer Service in Government</title>
<description><![CDATA[Both commercial and government organizations need to define and measure customer service.  Unfortunately, there's often a disconnect &#8211; the customer (or citizen) has a different perspective than the people tasked with providing customer service, particularly in a traditional contact center.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bill-grabner/2013/measuring-customer-service-in-government.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Ending the Multi-channel Frustration</title>
<description><![CDATA[Insights into Delivering Exceptional Multichannel Customer Service]]></description>
<link>http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=566064&amp;s=1&amp;k=4EEC94601223BBDF881DAAFB6B58F328&amp;partnerref=genesys_web</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Service Just Got a Whole Lot More Interesting</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys yesterday announced its plans to acquire Angel, a leading provider of cloud-based self-service contact center solutions. This acquisition is significant to Genesys and infuses new capabilities, solutions and expertise. At the same time, this event is representative of some large shifts happening within the customer service marketplace, and within every company.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2013/customer-service-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-interesting.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys to Acquire Leading Cloud-Based Self-Service Contact Center Provider, Angel, from parent MicroStrategy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys to Acquire Leading Cloud-Based Self-Service Contact Center Provider, Angel, from parent MicroStrategy]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-to-acquire-leading-cloud-based-self-service-contact-center-provider,-angel,-from-parent-microstrategy.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Real Cost of the Broken Customer Service Chain</title>
<description><![CDATA[Most Customer Service professionals are very familiar with the concept of First Contact Resolution (Otherwise known as FCR) and how this process improves efficiency and creates a better customer experience. Some argue it's the 'holy grail' of customer service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/the-real-cost-of-the-broken-customer-service-chain.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Delighting Customers Isn&amp;#8217;t What You Think...</title>
<description><![CDATA[For the sixteen years I&#8217;ve been working in and around the Customer Service business, I&#8217;d always bought into the notion that to delight customers was to win their loyalty.  Year after year, conference after conference, company outing after company outing &#8211; some variation of the &#8216;we have to delight our customers to win their hearts and minds&#8217; was repeated.  In our webinar tomorrow on &#8216;Ending The Multi-Channel Frustration&#8217; Forrester&#8217;s Kate Leggett and I will bring insights into delivering exceptional multi-channel customer service.  I hope you&#8217;ll join us! ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/delighting-customers-isnt-what-you-think.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>CCW Congress and Exhibition</title>
<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s largest branch event for customer service, communication and contact center event. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.callcenterworld.de</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Don&apos;t Blame the Employees for Bad Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[So, if we want to find the root source of bad service, where should we look?  Why do employees often take the rap for bad customer experiences?  Truth is companies often demoralize employees and undermine their efforts. Let&#8217;s look at two more factors that can make or break employees serving customers: culture and technology.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/don&apos;t-blame-the-employees-for-bad-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Secrets for Deploying a Social and Multichannel Cloud Contact Center</title>
<description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental shift underway how consumers interact with businesses.  According to research from Ovum on consumer preferences for customer service, the use of email, web chat, web self-service, social media, mobile and SMS for customer service have more than doubled in the past two years.  And, they expect these conversations to continue, at the same time consumers rely upon picking up the telephone to call an agent to resolve the same issue.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/west-gass/2013/three-secrets-for-deploying-a-social-and-multichannel-cloud-contact-center.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Contact Center Buying Decision. THREE Things to Consider.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Learn which options are right for you to provide a better customer experience and lower your TCO.]]></description>
<link>https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=583588&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=80A55D41292E060DD9C02EA93FDFBCF4&amp;partnerref=Web&amp;sourcepage=register</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The &amp;#8220;Big Data&amp;#8221; Customer Journey</title>
<description><![CDATA[The days of correlating sales data with a few dozen discrete advertising variables are over.  Many of the world&#8217;s biggest companies are now deploying analytics 2.0, a set of capabilities that can chew through terabytes of data and hundreds of variables in real time to reveal how advertising touch points interact dynamically.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2013/the-big-data-customer-journey.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Playing the Victim or the Leader?</title>
<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot written about how we bring innovation into customer service.  Much of that discussion centers on how a new mobile app or technology is going to change the way companies and customers engage.  While I love to see these new demonstrations, I often find the people charged with delivering customer service have two fundamental problems to deal with that technology won&#8217;t.  Addressing these issues can turn you from victim into customer service leader &#8211; and catapult your company from laggard to customer service market leader.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/are-you-playing-the-victim-or-the-leader.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>7 &amp;#8220;Fail Proof&amp;#8221; Steps to Delivering Exceptional Customer Service </title>
<description><![CDATA[To me, failing fast means quickly recognizing the wrong path has been taken and making a change in direction.  For a large Customer Service organization with thousands of employees recognizing failure can be extremely difficult, but changing direction quickly can be impossible without the right people, process and systems in place.  Here are steps you can take to &#8220;fail fast&#8221; that will help your organization provide world-class customer service. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/failing-fast.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Multichannel Multiplier</title>
<description><![CDATA[While they may not have witches sending flying monkeys after them, your customers&#8217; paths to interact with you are far more complex than the simple directions Dorothy received in the &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221;. The only direction Dorothy needed was to &#8220;follow the yellow brick road&#8221;. By traversing between channels your customer may take any one of hundreds of different paths to do business with you.  Customers now routinely use three or more channels to complete a transaction.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2013/the-multichannel-multiplier.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>TV and Customer Service:  Too Many Channels &amp;#8211; When More is not Always Better</title>
<description><![CDATA[Flipping on the big screen TV late the other night, I was reminded that we live in a world of too much information and often not the information we are looking for.  On my DirectTV, I have every national and regional sports network (good stuff), real-time debates on the stock market, and the ability to download any show I may want to watch.  But I mostly receive clutter &#8211; the channels and shows I want are often lost in the hundreds within the programming lineup.  And, if it weren&#8217;t for the remote and DVR, I would not be able to watch the very few programs I really want to watch. In the world of customer service, we also have a choice of many channels.  But where is my remote control for customer service?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ted-hunting/2013/tv-and-customer-service-when-more-is-not-always-better.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Positioned in Gartner&amp;#8217;s Magic Quadrant for CRM Web Customer Service Applications</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Positioned in Gartner&#8217;s Magic Quadrant for CRM Web Customer Service Applications]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-positioned-in-gartners-magic-quadrant-for-crm-web-customer-service-applications.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>6 Steps to Align Contact Center KPIs with Customer Experience Strategies</title>
<description><![CDATA[Does your organisation have a Customer Experience strategy? And, have you implemented either Net Promoter or Customer Effort Scores? Like most managers, you might feel these metrics provide value to your organization. Find out what to measure and why from this blog.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/6-steps-to-align-contact-center-kpis-with-customer-experience-strategies.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Your Call is Being Analyzed to Ensure Great Service and Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard the words uttered a million times in our lifetime:   &#8220;This call may be monitored and recorded for quality assurance purposes.&#8221; It&#8217;s finally time to retire this phrase.  Today, most sophisticated companies have moved beyond simple recording to advanced speech analytics to gain actionable insight into the root causes associated with customer churn and dissatisfaction.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/eric-tamblyn/2013/your-call-is-being-analyzed.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Aligning Contact Center Metrics with Your Customer Experience Strategy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Learn KPIs that matter to the whole business, not just the contact center.]]></description>
<link>http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&amp;eventid=579542&amp;sessionid=1&amp;partnerref=OFT&amp;key=76F4DDED7EE1DEC43E4189E225C0911E&amp;eventuserid=75986223</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Introduces the Genesys Partner Network</title>
<description><![CDATA[New Partner Program Offers Enhanced Training, Benefits, and Programs to Drive Partner Success in an Expanding Customer Service Market]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-partner-network.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Government Customer Service is Good Governance</title>
<description><![CDATA[With commercial companies, customers can vote with their wallets &#8211; few commercial enterprises have a complete monopoly on products and services in the modern world.   It's easy to find correlation between a company&#8217;s overall financial performance and its customer service marks. The marketplace is increasingly competitive, and with consumer dollars scarce and with many more goods and services vying to keep or increase their share of the customer&#8217;s wallets, customer service can be a primary differentiator.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bill-grabner/2013/government-customer-service-is-good-governance.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Response Summit 5</title>
<description><![CDATA[Your customer is highly connected, is your customer service and engagement strategy connected? CRS5 is designed to look at all channels of customer engagement with a specific look at &#8220;Mobile&#8221; and &#8220;Social".]]></description>
<link>http://www.customerresponsesummit.com</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Ready for New Customer Service Channels?</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to new data from Forrester research, consumers are continuing to shift their preferred channels for customer service.  The same research shows us that only a third of companies succeed at fulfilling their customers expectations when it comes to handling multiple channels.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/are-you-ready-for-new-customer-service-channels.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Five Keys To Engaging Today&apos;s Customer</title>
<description><![CDATA[I watch a lot of sports, especially any sport from my alma mater.  Before every game, a former player-turned-television or radio commentator waxes poetic about his or her &#8216;keys for each team to winning today&#8217;s game.&#8217;  If we were having a pre-match commentary about winning #CUSTSERV, what are the keys to engaging today&#8217;s customer?  Customer Service leaders need to take these five steps covered in this blog.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2013/five-keys-to-engaging-todays-customer.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How Mobile and Social Will Impact the 2013 B2B Marketing Agenda</title>
<description><![CDATA[Given my obsession with all things mobile and social, often I am asked to give my opinion about the impact of these popular technologies on the enterprise market. Most recently, I've explored how mobile and social disruption is changing the face of marketing and the customer experience.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ethan-francis/2013/how-mobile-and-social-will-impact-the-2013-b2b-marketing-agenda.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Trash, Recycling, Speakers, and Digital Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprises who want to use these new digital channels as a way to differentiate their brand need to see them as tools for communications with their customers and prospects.  Companies need to understand that their customers will see them as a single entity across all of these disparate channels and applications and that an inconsistent experience will cost them loyalty and cause customer churn. This blog post covers the essentials of what this means to most enterprises. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2013/trash,-recycling,-speakers,-and-digital-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Tserver for Cisco UCM Moved from IP TServers to TServers</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/support-announcements/tserver-for-cisco-ucm-moved-from-ip-tservers-to-tservers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Connect Wins Best in Show Award at ITEXPO</title>
<description><![CDATA[Innovative Cloud Customer Service Solution Recognized as &#8216;Best Contact Center Solution&#8217; for Simplicity and Ease of Use by Editors of TMC.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-connect-wins-best-in-show-award-at-itexpo.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Connect for Service Cloud Wins Best in Show at ITEXPO 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[This past week was an exciting one for Genesys.  Along with hundreds of technology companies and solution providers, Genesys participated in the ITEXPO Conference in Miami where we showcased our Genesys Connect for Service Cloud solution. Everywhere you turned, the &#8220;Cloud&#8221; dominated the conversation &#8211; in the booths and demonstrations, during the breakouts, and upon virtually every sign and banner.  To culminate this busy week, we were extremely honored to receive the Best in Show Award for Contact Centers from the Editors of TMC.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/michael-mcbrien/2013/genesys-connect-for-service-cloud-wins-best-in-show-at-itexpo-2013.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Steps to Design an Uncommon Service Strategy</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of our customers in the mobile space in Europe recently gave a presentation to their colleagues on how they completely revised their approach to customer service and how technology was playing a key role in this transformation.  This company had recently implemented several new Genesys solutions that helped them improve customer service.  It was a big project. A key question was asked from the audience was, &#8220;How difficult was the technology implementation?&#8221; This blog answers this question and four key items that are required for designing a service strategy.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/four-steps-to-design-an-uncommon-service-strategy.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What is your Customers&amp;#8217; &amp;#8220;Experience Journey?&amp;#8221;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Every company has multiple touchpoints on the customer journey at which they engage their customers.  Understanding these touchpoints is an important step in ensuring that your customers&#8217; experiences with you are positive. I recommend that you take an inventory of the Customer Journey for your customers. Here are four key steps for this inventory.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stuart-walters/2013/customer-experience-journey.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Connect for Salesforce Service Cloud now available on Salesforce.com&amp;#8217;s AppExchange</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Expands Relationship with Salesforce.com to Offer Salesforce Service Cloud with Genesys Connect ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-connect-for-salesforce.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Five Questions You Should Ask About the Way We Work</title>
<description><![CDATA[Payments and collections are a necessary part of life. While we live in difficult times and money is tight Abraham Lincoln once said, &#8220;You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.&#8221;  Enlightened companies that work with thousands and sometimes millions of customers are helping their customers live up to their responsibilities through thoughtful, flexible and even mobile communication plans.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/five-questions-to-ask-when-prioritizing-work.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>IT Expo in Miami</title>
<description><![CDATA[Join Genesys at this key IT conference and learn more about how the world communicates today.]]></description>
<link>http://itexpo.tmcnet.com/east13/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Set up Your Cloud Call Center in a Matter of Hours with Genesys Connect</title>
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<link>http://cloud-call-center.tmcnet.com/topics/cloud-call-center/articles/324900-set-up-cloud-call-center-a-matter-hours.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>&quot;Presenteeism&quot; -- The Cost of Unplanned Absenteeism</title>
<description><![CDATA[Presenteeism begins with having a connection to your company, your direct supervisor and understanding the importance of your role.  Answering phone calls from customers can seem mundane, but in fact, this a most important customer facing positions that can make or break any company. This blog covers some of the costs beyond unanswered calls that occure whenemployees are not &#8220;present&#8221;. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/cost-of-unplanned-absenteeism.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Agrees to Acquire UTOPY in a Deal that Transforms Customer Service with Actionable Customer Interaction Analytics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Acquisition accelerates company&#8217;s delivery of a world-class workforce optimization solution]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-agrees-to-acquire-utopy-in-a-deal-that-transforms-customer-service-with-actionable-customer-interaction-analytics.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Waiting is Dead</title>
<description><![CDATA[On a recent flight, I read an interesting article in Gentleman&#8217;s Quarterly discussing how television has evolved over the past few decades. This article got me thinking about the same parallels &#8211; and how waiting is now dead &#8211; within the world of customer service.  Specifically, there have been eight major trends and technology advances to send waiting into permanent obsolescence.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2013/waiting-is-dead.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Delivers Record Results in 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Company achieves double-digit growth with over $610 million in 2012 revenue, extends reach into mid-market with new packaged and cloud-based solutions]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-delivers-record-results-in-2012.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Ways of Working with Outsourcers that Contact Center Managers Should Know</title>
<description><![CDATA[For many many years customer service operations have been using external resources or outsourcers to get additional capacity for their customer service operation. For the customer this means that the customer experience may be different from one outsourcer to another. The provision of the outsource service and its infrastructure to support it is usually separated from the main contact center environment meaning that it is isolated in its own silo. This blog looks at the three key models generally used by organizations.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2013/three-ways-of-working-with-outsourcers-that-contact-center-managers-should-know.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>9 Ingredients of an Agent Competency Framework </title>
<description><![CDATA[As with many strategies or ideas, they are worthless if they aren&#8217;t executed. These nine ingredients to implement an Agent Competency Framework for Customer Service will provide this starting point and guidance towards developing your own framework.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/9-ingredients-of-an-agent-competency-framework.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Moving Your Employees to the Work</title>
<description><![CDATA[I have worked for and with some very knowledgeable people who brought a lot to the table.  One executive in particular, was very interested in routing. He clearly understood the value of getting the right call to the right person with the ability to expand the target if the expected wait time was outside of the customer acceptable threshold using skills based routing. But he was very concerned with our inability to apply the same methodology to work, specifically service requests, email, faxes and other electronic work generated by phone calls and other processes. This blog covers workforce optimization and skills-based routing to solve this issue.   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/stop-moving-your-employees-to-the-work.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>There&apos;s No Excuse for Bad Customer Service in 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[I disagree with the idea that companies are oblivious to the customer service problem.  Instead, most companies I speak with are trying to tackle the problem, but struggle with making meaningful progress. The customer service problem crosses all departments within a company and depends on hundreds or thousands of people within a company &#8211; and often involves technology changes requiring process and metric changes. Several trends are converging that give me hope that in 2013 customer service improvements will accelerate across the board &#8211; for large companies and small.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/tom-eggemeier/2013/theres-no-excuse-for-bad-customer-service-in-2013.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Save up to 50% -- Migrate from ACD/PBX to SIP</title>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how Ticketmaster realized remarkable savings and improved customer service by migrating to a SIP solution. Hear their story from guest speaker, Elizabeth Gotto, SVP Global Contact Center Technology.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=563001&amp;s=1&amp;k=53AAE8BC3918C284681BFAEB0A6574B9&amp;partnerref=Web</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>8th Annual Call Center Summit </title>
<description><![CDATA[The Call Center Summit focuses on high-level conversations that move from strategy to action. This year's theme revolves around the very core of your business - the PEOPLE - both customers and employees and how to put them first every time.]]></description>
<link>http://www.callcenterevent.com/Event.aspx?id=789550</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Ways that SIP Improves the Contact Center</title>
<description><![CDATA[IP telephony is muscling out proprietary hardware in many contact centers.  At Genesys, we've seen a tipping point where new contact center deployments and upgrades more often than not use SIP-based software instead of proprietary telephony switches and ACDs. Cost is probably the leading business driver for the migration to SIP &#8211; it's simply more cost effective to use standards-based software on commodity hardware.  The experiences of Genesys customers bear this out; they can typically reduce contact center costs by 50-60% by switching to a SIP-based architecture. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jim-kraeutler/2013/four-ways-that-sip-improves-the-contact-center.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why Customer Experience Officers Should Focus on Voice of the Customer and Workforce Analytics</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you work in the customer service industry, you know that we live in an experience-oriented world. The reason for this is pretty simple since almost every product and service is commoditized. It&#8217;s difficult to tell one bank, retailer, or one airline from another. As a result, differentiating yourself and better engaging your customers are based upon two key tenants: Your Brand and Your Customer Experience.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/why-customer-experience-officers-should-focus-on-voice-of-the-customer-and-workforce-analytics.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Use Mobile Applications to Take Customer Service to the Next Level</title>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how to transform your customer service with mobile apps that provide real service. This webinar includes a product demo.]]></description>
<link>http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=562220&amp;s=1&amp;k=097F6B12905D8858F711BF6D7E5A3C5E</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Cloudforce Essentials Vancouver</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hear more about Gensys Connect for Service Cloud and the future of cloud computing. See Genesys at this event.]]></description>
<link>http://www.salesforce.com/events/details/cfe13-yvr/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Things Every Company Should Track</title>
<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of technology in business carries with it the capability to report on an endless number of data points. Every business leader struggles with an overwhelming amount of information, trying to make sense out of the data and find the critical bits that can truly make a difference. Some of the information winds up in KPIs  (Key Performance Indicators). The challenge for business leaders comes down to isolating a handful of KPIs that can function both as a barometer and muse, providing insight on a course of action based on all things known at a given moment in time.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2013/three-things-every-company-should-track.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Cloudforce Essentials Philadelphia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hear more about Gensys Connect for Service Cloud and the future of cloud computing. See Genesys at this event.]]></description>
<link>http://www.salesforce.com/events/details/cfe12-phl/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Reasons Why Your Payment and Collections Strategy is Killing Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[Payments and collections are a necessary part of life. While we live in difficult times and money is tight Abraham Lincoln once said, &#8220;You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.&#8221;  Enlightened companies that work with thousands and sometimes millions of customers are helping their customers live up to their responsibilities through thoughtful, flexible and even mobile communication plans.   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/three-reasons-why-your-payment-and-collections-strategy-is-killing-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding the Mobile Opportunity for Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[I interviewed Max Ball and Ethan Francis as they were getting ready for Wednesday's webinar, Use Mobile Applications to Take Customer Service to the Next Level,  took the opportunity to answer questions about this webinar. Max is a Director of Solutions Marketing here at Genesys, and Ethan is our Global Director of Mobility.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2013/understanding-the-mobile-opportunity-for-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Six Capabilities Each Contact Center Manager Should Check when Selecting a New WFM Solution</title>
<description><![CDATA[Workforce Management (WFM) solutions come in all sorts and sizes and have been used by contact center managers and staffing professionals to optimize the efficiency of customer service operations by forecasting accuracy and automating the sometimes complex process of building schedules. Since these solutions have been around for many years, this market is a typical &#8216;replacement market&#8217; where every several years organizations look for a new WFM solution.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/six-capabilities-to-look-for-when-selecting-a-new-wfm-solution.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Decade After Do-Not-Call; Three Ways Outbound is Flourishing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Outbound is dead!  Millions will lose jobs.  Telemarketers are out of control scaring citizens. These were the headlines a decade ago in 2003. Now that 2013 is here, let&#8217;s take stock of what has happened and where outbound is today.Now, in 2013, a new set of rules is set to go into effect in January. These rules tighten areas around sales calls and include rules on sales calls to cell phones, robocalls, and provide a mandatory opt-out mechanism when consumers receive an abandoned call, but these rules are causing little more than a ripple of interest.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2013/a-decade-after-do-not-call-three-ways-outbound-is-flourishing.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Extends Best-in-class Contact Center Routing to Support Microsoft Lync</title>
<description><![CDATA[Joint Integration brings powerful communications and customer service capabilities across the enterprise]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-extends-best-in-class-contact-center-routing-to-support-microsoft-lync.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Extends Contact Center Routing Across the Enterprise with Microsoft Lync</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, Genesys announced that the Genesys SIP contact center has achieved integration with Microsoft Lync Voice.   Genesys is now a leading Microsoft Qualified Contact Center application.So what?  Genesys has integrations with dozens of PBXs, both software- and hardware-based, and old school telephony switches.  What makes this integration different?Combining two major voice platforms &#8211; the Genesys Contact Center with Microsoft Lync Voice &#8211; will create new communications opportunities for any company across their enterprise.  This deep integration has no peers among the major Contact Center vendors, and it is a major marketplace innovation and breakthrough. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/livio-pugliese/2013/genesys-extends-contact-center-routing-across-the-enterprise-with-microsoft-lync.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Habits of Highly Effective Contact Center Managers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Back in 1989, Steven Covey first published his famous book,  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.  For many people, this book has been a source of inspiration for self-improvement and people management. Contact center managers are people who work in dynamic environments where many types of different talents are required to be successful. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-contact-center-managers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>My Last Blog was OUT OF COMPLIANCE.  Five Steps to Keep your Organization Compliant</title>
<description><![CDATA[My last blog wasn't in compliance with previously set family guidelines for sharing pictures and videos.  While my intentions were good, the reality is, I knew this was a compliance issue.  My friends on Facebook know I over share when it comes to pictures and my better half has agreed (that I over share) on many occasions and has had me take pictures down and or remove tags several times. While I may be in the dog house at home for my compliance issue, compliance issues in the workplace can cause much more severe punishment and can include fines and jail time.  Here are some tools you can use to keep your organization in compliance. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2013/five-steps-to-keep-your-organization-compliant.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What the World Not Ending Means for Customer Service in 2013</title>
<description><![CDATA[Well, 12/21/12 came and went without the world ending and we appear to be slipping down the &#8220;Fiscal Slope&#8221; instead of falling off any cliffs.  That means we don&#8217;t get to wash our hands of the customer experience in 2013.  In fact, given the way the economy in the US seems to be slowly clawing its way back from the brink of disaster and the way the developing world continues to grow and Europe manages to hang on, 2013 is actually set up to be a very interesting year where I believe we will start to see some real momentum in a couple of key areas.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2013/what-the-world-not-ending-means-for-customer-service-in-2013.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Six Signs Your Contact Center Agents are Hitting the Disengaged Cliff</title>
<description><![CDATA[Many contact center managers, supervisors, and learning and development specialists are working night and day to determine how we get the 54% of &#8216;not-engaged&#8217; employees to be more engaged. Obviously this is where the bulk of the benefit can be made.A parallel effort should be launched to understand the symptoms that employees exhibit prior to losing them &#8211; at the very point when they are about to hit the &#8216;not-engaged cliff&#8217;. Seeing the early warning signs might help to put these employees back on the right path before they become so disengaged that off-boarding is the only alternative.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2013/six-signs-your-contact-center-agents-are-hitting-the-disengaged-cliff.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Making Cents Out of Contact Center Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today companies need to integrate Sales, Marketing, Service and Support into a connected service strategy if they want to compete for the 1 trillion dollars in online revenue.  Customers want a single conversation with their brands. They want the brand to be aware of their needs and intentions, and they want the option to have live assistance.  The good news is that the technology to offer this seamless level of customer service is already here.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/eric-tamblyn/2013/making-cents-out-of-contact-center-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Find Genesys Connect on Salesforce AppExchange</title>
<description><![CDATA[New year, new beginning &#8211; and for Genesys, today is a particularly big day.  After its debut at Dreamforce in September where hundreds of attendees shared in our excitement about adding Genesys voice capabilities to Service Cloud, today marks the official launch of Genesys Connect on Salesforce AppExchange.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/michael-mcbrien/2013/find-genesys-connect-on-salesforce-appexchange.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Presents: Striking the Right Balance Between Customer Service and Contact Center TCO</title>
<description><![CDATA[Participate in a panel discussion and address hard-hitting questions of direct relevance to the success of your business. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.customermanagementiq.com/ccm-multi-omni-channel-technologies/webinars/genesys-presents-striking-the-right-balance-betwee/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Genesys 2013 Customer Service New Year&apos;s Resolutions</title>
<description><![CDATA[By reading the tea leaves from 2012, we can gain some insight into the New Year. Despite a lackluster economy, customer service dominated business initiatives.  Technologies such as cloud computing, social media, analytics and mobile pushed the innovation envelope.  And finally, some would say belatedly, companies are increasingly realizing that customer service is an &#8220;enterprise problem&#8221; &#8211; and not just something limited to the contact center or customer service department.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/paul-segre/2012/the-genesys-2013-customer-service-new-years-resolutions.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Do You Believe in Santa Claus? Five Steps to Protect Your Company in the Social Sphere</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tonight I watched a video from Christmas morning 2011 of my youngest son (8) telling a story of how he heard something the previous night, got out of bed, and low and behold, saw Santa Claus bringing gifts into our house.  He even had a very small Elf helper and nine reindeer.  As this was going on, my oldest son (11) was in the background with a look of disbelief on his face.  But, as soon as I brought the focus on the camera to him and asked if he saw anything, he stated, &#8220;No, I stayed in my room&#8230;..but, I did hear something on the roof that sounded like reindeer hooves clicking and clacking.&#8221;  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/do-you-believe-in-santa-claus.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>3 Steps to Dig Out when Hurricane Sandy Hits Your Back Office</title>
<description><![CDATA[Employees in the back office where customer work is processed see blizzards of work.  What happens when there is a hurricane in the most populated area of the United States?  How many insurance claims will hit in November and for months afterwards? How many telecom work orders will be submitted?  Utility companies are wading through mountains of complaints, work orders, and billing issues. I can&#8217;t even imagine.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/3-steps-to-dig-out-when-hurricane-sandy-hits-your-back-office.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Teaching and Start Learning from Your Agents</title>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, maybe you should not stop teaching your agents about your products and services or customer service soft skills, but you should certainly start learning from them.  Contact center agents are in a unique position, and this position brings a unique mix of insight to what the customer says and thinks about your company and its brand. This insight can also suggest areas for improvement.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/stop-teaching-and-start-learning-from-your-agents.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What the French (Yes, the French) Get About Customer Service that You Don&apos;t</title>
<description><![CDATA[You get the customer service you deserve. That&#8217;s perhaps the simplest way to summarize how I would characterize my five years of living and working in France. During this time, my service experience there went from the equivalent of water torture to establishing incredible bonds with my favorite shops, &#8216;grand magasins&#8217; and brands. In a country where defying authority is as ingrained in the culture as the baguette, you quickly learn that the &#8216;conventional wisdom&#8217; about customer service &#8211; which is practiced throughout the world  -- does not apply.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/what-the-french-get-about-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The &amp;#8220;New Normal:&amp;#8221; How Extreme Customer Service is creating a New Human Reality</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of refinancing my home at a lower interest rate.  As part of the loan submission package, I&#8217;m required to submit a plethora of documents proving my credit worthiness.  One of the requirements included providing two month&#8217;s worth of copies of checking and savings bank statements. Simple. Right?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/the-new-normal-how-extreme-customer-service-is-creating-a-new-human-reality.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Bad Habits from the Back Office that Damage the Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[When I was conducting a webinar last week, I discussed how employee work habits in the back office could be improved. I made the following point that incited several questions--I suggested that customer service would be improved, as well as efficiency, if these employees had work pushed to them in a similar manner as phone calls to agents in the contact center. That sparked a question, &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t the workers become bored or lack variety if this happened?&#8221;]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/three-bad-habits-from-the-back-office.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Five Steps to Reducing Attrition and Improving Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Customer Experience Lifecycle is a continuous process that is driven by the customer-facing people you hire, how new hire training is delivered, a well-defined career path, and a solid skill and routing plan within the contact center.  These five steps are highly interconnected and consistently changing. Let&#8217;s explore these five steps in more detail and discuss how they can reduce attrition rates while improving the customer experience. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/what-came-first,-the-chicken-or-the-egg.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Appoints Reed Henry as Chief Marketing Officer</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Appoints Reed Henry as Chief Marketing Officer]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-appoints-reed-henry-as-chief-marketing-officer.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How Siri Spawned the Next Big Thing in Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Technological advances have converged with shifting customer expectations to create a "perfect storm" for virtual assistant applications in mobile customer service context. These Siri-like applications feed the customer's appetite for more personal self service and leverage the now ubiquitous use of smartphones. Currently, several huge developers are creating such apps for customer service, including Siri innovator SRI International and Nuance Communications.  &#8220;Steve Jobs&#8211;knowingly or not&#8211;identified a great opportunity for customer service with Siri, and we are only just now at the tipping point,&#8221; says Andy Peart, chief marketing officer for Artificial Solutions, which develops such Siri-like apps for customer service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ashley-furness/2012/how-siri-spawned-the-next-big-thing-in-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lessons Learned While Fishing With a 10-Year Old</title>
<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I took my 10-year old son fishing.  He loves to fish, but like many of us, he has very little patience.  Within minutes he wanted to change from live worms to a lure. Then, he needed to move to a different position. Two casts later, he wanted to use a different lure, and each change in bait was accompanied by a change in position on the pond.  Finally, he changed back to the original bait at the original spot.  On the second cast using the original bait (worms), he caught the first fish of the day.  How many fish would he have caught had he stayed with that original bait and stayed in the original position from the beginning? This scenario reminds me of how many contact center managers are constantly moving people and work items to manage peaks and valleys due to intra-day fluctuations in workload.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/lessons-learned-while-fishingbrwith-a-10-year-old.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Your Quality Management Investment Delivering the ROI You Expect?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s contact centers have invested in various tools to increase the efficiency of their operations and to monitor and increase the quality of the conversations their employees have with customers. During a casual conversation with Greg Hedges, Business Consulting Manager of Genesys Asia-Pacific, I asked him, &#8220;Greg, what is your perspective on the ROI of workforce solutions?&#8221;If you know Australians, they will always give you a non-diplomatic answer.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/is-your-quality-management-investment-delivering-the-roi-you-expect.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Signals Importance of Brazil Market with Rapidly Expanding Presence, New Management Appointments</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-signals-importance-of-brazil-market-with-rapidly-expanding-presence,-new-management-appointments.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Things Every Compliance&lt;br&gt;Officer Should Know</title>
<description><![CDATA[Will Rogers said, &#8220;When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.&#8221;  In terms of compliance, we can try to train our way to make sure that employees follow the rules. But, we keep digging and the hole just keeps getting deeper.  This quote characterizes where we are with risk management and compliance efforts &#8211; especially within customer service organizations.  Why? Compliance is getting tougher and more extensive every day and even with the best companies, with the best intentions, who have a top down attitudes, meeting compliance laws is risky business. Here are four things every compliance officer should know.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2012/four-things-every-compliance-officer-should-know.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Broken (Customer Service) Promise</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is your customer service really just lip service?Why do all the companies insist on telling me over and over that they have the best service? Do they really expect me to believe them? I&#8217;ve been doing business with 100s of brands my whole life and I can only think of a handful of names that I would actually say, yes, they have great service, or they really care. It usually doesn&#8217;t come cheap either, so the immediate association I make as a consumer is that I&#8217;m paying extra for this. In turn, I consider all the other companies I do business with that &#8220;claim&#8221; great service are just making noise. So that means the majority of companies who have repeated and disappointed us all, numerous times over, have turned the term customer service into lip service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/a-broken-(customer-service)-promise.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Ushers in New Era of Simplicity for Advanced Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Ushers in New Era of Simplicity for Advanced Customer Service]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-ushers-in-new-era-of-simplicity-for-advanced-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Caring More About Management Than You Do Your Customer</title>
<description><![CDATA[This blog is inspired by an accumulation of observations in customer service interactions that many companies are putting their own management before their customers.  Many who read that line will conclude a reach into the much written about &#8216;pay gap&#8217; disparity between CEO&#8217;s and the rest of us, but I&#8217;m not going there. This is about how some companies continue to show a lack of empathy for customer service staff, and how they continue to alienate themselves from their customers with policies that not only don&#8217;t make sense &#8211; but that leave front-line staff disempowered to fix customer issues. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/stop-caring-more-about-management-than-you-do-your-customer.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys University Courses in Dec 2012 - Mar 2013</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/support-announcements/genesys-university-courses-in-dec-2012-mar-2013.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Reasons You Can&apos;t See the Customer Work Backlog</title>
<description><![CDATA[A famous quote by Ovid talks about the effect of the dangers of what is not visible, &#8220;The cause is hidden. The effect is obvious to all.&#8221; What a great quote describing the difficulties of managing customer work. Research has shown that 70% of consumers leave a company due to a bad customer experience and many of these losses are based on problems in delivering customer work to the right employee or resource. These processes are invisible to consumers and managers are often equally in the dark as to performance problems.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/three-reasons-you-can&apos;t-see-the-customer-work-backlog.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>To Prepare or To Not be Prepared: 70.3 Miles of Contact Center Management</title>
<description><![CDATA[I am an endurance sport and triathlete junkie. On October 28, 2012, the &#8220;Austin 70.3&#8221; was not my best race. Why?  I was underprepared. When I first started short-distance triathlons, I had no idea if I could swim, then bike and then run the required distances. So I over-prepared by following a plan provided by a coach and mentor. This plan worked well and I moved on to the half and full Ironman distances and was able to surprise myself with my finishing times.  But I have learned that an equally important aspect of endurance is mental preparation and remembering that the finish line is always in sight breaking long distances down in to segments that are manageable.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/to-prepare-or-to-not-be-prepared.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Tips to Align Your Contact Strategy with the Customer Lifecycle</title>
<description><![CDATA[The relationship between a customer and a business typically passes through a series of stages which describes the &#8220;customer lifecycle.&#8221;  At each stage in the lifecycle, the customer requires something different from the business, which in turn, must respond appropriately.  Similarly, at each stage the business has opportunities to develop the relationship and increase the lifetime value of the customer.  Let&#8217;s discuss each of the major milestones within this lifecycle.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/seven-tips-to-align-your-contact-strategy.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Positioned in Leading Analysts Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Workforce Optimization</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-positioned-in-leading-analysts-magic-quadrant-for-contact-center-workforce-optimization.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Rumors of IVR&apos;s Death are Greatly Exagerated (Part 2)</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking of mobile as the great IVR killer, stop now!  It's not that you are wrong; it's just that you are missing the point. In the first part of this blog I talked about the promise that mobile applications hold for really changing the way enterprises work with their customers, and sowed many seeds of doubt as to whether we will ever get there.  There are a series of obstacles to enterprises really embracing mobile applications as a game changer for customer experience and support.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/the-rumors-of-ivr&apos;s-death-are-greatly-exagerated-(part-2).aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Looking for customer insights? Talk to your call center agents.</title>
<description><![CDATA[I recently read about a company that requires every new hire, regardless of department or position, to spend time working in the contact center before they start working in their hired position. What a great way to ensure that every person in their organization knows what their customers and agents are experiencing on a daily basis! As a former contact center agent, I firmly believe that customer satisfaction and agent satisfaction are interdependent, and they both can have a big impact on your business.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/heidi-parcell/2012/looking-for-customer-insights-talk-to-your-call-center-agents.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Rumors of IVR&apos;s Death are Greatly Exagerated</title>
<description><![CDATA[I've been working in the IVR and contact center industries for over twenty years now, and I'm still waiting for the day when a decent customer experience is the norm.  The track record is not good.  More than once I've been to a barber who in the interest of professional chatter asked me what I did for a living.  Let me tell you, it&#8217;s a bad moment the person who is cutting your hair yells &#8220;I HATE THOSE DAMN THINGS"]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/the-rumors-of-ivr&apos;s-death-are-greatly-exagerated.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What I&apos;m Thankful For; Striving for Great Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of the holiday, as we name the things we are thankful for, is Striving for Great Customer Service on your list? Today's blog covers some of the reasons why maybe it should be. And after you read the blog, let us know what you are thankful for in the world of customer service by adding your comments.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/what-i&apos;m-thankful-for-striving-for-great-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>KSF Jaarcongres </title>
<description><![CDATA[The KSF Annual Conference is the largest and most respected annual event in the contact center industry in the Netherlands.]]></description>
<link>http://ksf-jaarcongres.nl/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Don&amp;#8217;t Abandon Customers who Abandoned You; Five Steps to a Better Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[When customers call your customer contact center, they want their calls answered quickly by a knowledgeable representative. But too often a customer hangs up before you have answered their call.  Understanding why can help drive improved customer experience and a positive bottom line. This blog provides five steps to understanding and dealing with abandoned calls to improve customer experience.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/dont-abandon-customers-who-abandoned-you-five-steps-to-a-better-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Options to Deliver Better Customer Service with a Shrinking Budget</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you contact center customer service budget is shrinking, but you are challenged to meet service levels and increase customer satisfaction, here are seven options that can help you meet this challenge.These seven options will drive a better customer experience while you reduce costs. And the next time you discuss your customer service budget, you&#8217;ll have a different conversation.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/seven-options-to-deliver-better-customer-service-with-a-shrinking-budget.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Social Vampire Survival Guide</title>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Pattinson and I don&#8217;t have much in common, except being vampires.  He plays the storybook vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies.  I am just a regular guy until I became a Social Vampire, and set out to socially shame my Internet provider on Twitter and Facebook. Social Vampires come from the ranks of angry, isolated customers, who use social media to seek retribution.  They threaten your company&#8217;s bottom line by sinking their teeth into its brand reputation and savaging the perception of their customer service.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jeff-woodland/2012/the-social-vampire-survival-guide.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Nordic Experience Summit</title>
<description><![CDATA[Customer Experience is the focus. We'll share our latest customer experiences and show you how focusing on Customer Experience can transform your customer service. ]]></description>
<link>http://genesys.dcportal10.nl/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Call Center - CRM Demo and Conference</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Japan will introduce our innovative customer service solutions through demonstration at exhibtion area and private seminar "Customer Service Innovation Forum" on Nov 16th.]]></description>
<link>http://www.callcenter-japan.com/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Going Retro: Three Ways To Make Your Customer Service Cool Again</title>
<description><![CDATA[A key theme that emerged this year amongst consumers is our longing for the past, our desire for a new brand of &#8216;retro&#8217; consumerism.  Retro became cool again because we&#8217;re missing something in our hyper-connected social worlds.  We&#8217;re missing a connection.  And the companies that can make a connection with their customer are tomorrow&#8217;s market leaders. Making a connection with your customer is scratching that retro consumer &#8216;itch&#8217; that we see so prominently. Doing so makes Customer Service cool again &#8211; and wins you more loyal customers and more wallet share.  Focusing on 3 areas will make your Customer Service cool instead of old school.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/tom-eggemeier/2012/going-retro-three-ways-to-make-your-customer-service-cool-again.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys to Transform Customer Service for the Broader Enterprise Market with the Introduction of Genesys One</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys to Transform Customer Service for the Broader Enterprise Market with the Introduction of Genesys One]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-to-transform-customer-service-for-the-broader-enterprise-market-with-the-introduction-of-genesys-one.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Nolldistans</title>
<description><![CDATA[Telekom IDAG conference on Universal Communication technology and collaboration.]]></description>
<link>http://www.google.com/url?q=http://nolldistans.se/&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=ZjuhUI2HAeO1iwLL4YHIAQ&amp;ved=0CBQQFjAA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPntyvznQOc2CYx-_dvn8TDrcV6A</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Six Customer Service Transformation Initiatives to Consider</title>
<description><![CDATA[Commoditization of products and services forces enterprises to rethink how to differentiate and win the battle for the customer. The customer experience you provide is watched by the social peers of your customers and positive word of mouth about your service could pursuade others to buy your product or service. Looking for where to start to transform your customer service and ensure positive experiences? Here are six things to consider.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/six-customer-service-transformation-initiatives-to-consider.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>5 Reasons Your Customers Hear Crickets Instead of Proactive Service Notifications</title>
<description><![CDATA[Voice, email and SMS customer service are not new, but companies are just starting to realize and embrace the value of informing customers on the progress of service requests. us when our work has progressed within the enterprise. Workload management solutions can help you eliminate the 5 biggest reasons your customers may be hearing crickets instead of receiving  proactive service notifications.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/5-reasons-your-customers-hear-crickets-instead-of-proactive-service-notifications.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Walking Your Customer Down the Disenchantment Plank?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I am increasingly becoming attuned to the fact that for the companies whose customer service &#8216;presence&#8217; is most prevalent in our lives &#8211; the attitude and response to serving their customers is summed up like this:  The company believes the customer needs them more than the company needs the customer.  Often, the company believes that the customer is too busy and pre-occupied to seek an alternative choice.  And, the company has many novel strategies to acquire new customers, all of which are more fun and sexy to the company than addressing mundane customer service issues.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/are-you-walking-your-customer-down-the-disenchantment-plank.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Don&apos;t Leave Money on the Table! Three Techniques for Balancing Workload</title>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of their hours of operation, contact centers are challenged by many factors to properly align staffing with call arrival patterns.   As a critical component to ensure that your customers are provided with a consistent service and that employee occupancy is balanced, customer service organizations are consistently barraged with a plethora of hurdles.   These unpredictable &#8211; and often predicable &#8211; challenges are frequently driven by marketing strategies that generate additional call volume and variances in call arrival patterns due to changes in customer behaviors.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/three-techniques-for-balancing-workload.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Four Practical Ideas for how CIOs can Improve Enterprise Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[CIOs are in a unique position to improve enterprise customer experience.  Why? Unlike most other people in a company, CIOs know better than anyone the end-to-end processes within organizations and problems that exist between front and back office operations.  They know the weaknesses, limitations, strengths and where opportunities lie in customer processes.   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/four-practical-ideas-for-how-cios-can-improve-enterprise-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Do You Know the Difference Between Workflow and Workload?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Across every enterprise, workflow and workloads are the driving force behind many mission critical business applications and processes &#8211; especially customer service.  Yet, in today&#8217;s customer-focused environment, there exist some fundamental differences between the two and how they affect the overall customer service chain.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/do-you-know-the-difference-between-workflow-and-workload.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Korea Customer Satisfaction Innovation Conference &amp;#8211; Contact Center Track</title>
<description><![CDATA[This conference focuses on multi-channel communications and the customer experience. In today&#8217;s economy, companies are more challenged than ever before to provide customer service experiences that will grow customer loyalty and attract new, loyal customers. ]]></description>
<link>http://consulting.kmac.co.kr/eduinfo/conferenceinfo.asp?oc_code=7082</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How to Fix a Me-Too App in Five Steps</title>
<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in the first blog of this series, there has been a clear focus by mobile developers to create their mobile apps based on look and feel, and cool &#8220;bells and whistles.&#8221; This approach makes sense given limited goals during the creation of these apps. Here&#8217;s a quick and simple list of 5 tips to consider for anyone building a transformative enterprise mobile app.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/how-to-fix-a-me-too-app-in-five-steps.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Five Ways Contact Centers Can Reduce Repeat Callers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Customers often don&#8217;t want to call the contact center.  When they do, customers expect timely, accurate information.  Repeat calls are an indicator of the health of your service organization and can be correlated to poor customer satisfaction and customer churn.  Most analysts estimate repeat calls into the contact center can range between 15 to 35 percent.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/five-ways-contact-centers-can-reduce-repeat-callers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why Companies Must Do Much More with their Mobile Presence</title>
<description><![CDATA[You may notice a more deliberate title for today&#8217;s blog that conveys the concept of &#8220;Mobile Presence.&#8221;  Let&#8217;s pick up from the last blog and lay out WHY companies will have to do much more to advance their mobility strategies. Let&#8217;s start by stating the obvious:  It&#8217;s early days for mobility. Companies are just starting to figure out what they want to do, beyond just having an app that conveys static information. These same companies quickly realize that the number of downloaded mobile apps isn&#8217;t not the only metric should be the primary focus of determining success.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/why-companies-must-do-much-more-with-their-mobile-presence.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Social Heroes in the Eye of the Storm</title>
<description><![CDATA[This past week, American&#8217;s watched in horror as Hurricane Sandy hurled its fury at the east coast, causing untold damage across a several hundred mile swath. From this tragedy, we saw many unsung heroes that stepped up to help those in need &#8211; spanning firefighters, civic leaders, first responders, and ordinary citizens.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/social-heroes-in-the-eye-of-the-storm.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How Presence Closes the Customer Service Gap</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not thinking about how to use customer presence in your customer service strategy, you&#8217;re missing a major opportunity to deliver a highly differentiated customer experience.  By bringing contextual information to our customers using presence, we change customer service from something that our customers engage in themselves to an experience that delivers powerful brand impressions.    ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/how-presence-closes-the-customer-service-gap.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Little Data vs. Big Data;&lt;br&gt;Solve the Right Problem First</title>
<description><![CDATA[While &#8220;big data&#8221; issues are intriguing to think about and will have impact over time, it may be the "little data" problems that are causing your the customer experience to fall short. In fact, the problem we see over and over with our customers is the need to simply share key bits of data across different touchpoints that tend to be managed in different silos. Are you trying to solve the wrong data problem first?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/little-data-vs.-big-data.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What Are Businesses Doing with Mobile?</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this three-part blog series, I&#8217;m going to discuss the state of the union within the mobile customer service space.  I recognize that mobile is one of those topics that cuts through many different organizations and processes &#8211; and for good reason:  mobile has proven itself as a great disruptive technology.  That said, I want to focus on is what&#8217;s happening with consumer-facing mobile apps provided by businesses.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/what-are-businesses-doing-with-mobile.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Nine Agent Productivity Strategies Every Contact Center Manager Should Consider</title>
<description><![CDATA[Agents represent the largest component of contact center spending and are the cornerstone of any effective customer service strategy. In fact, agent overhead can run as high as 60% of a contact center&#8217;s cost. If executed properly, an enlightened agent management strategy coupled with enabling technology can yield a tremendous return.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/nine-agent-productivity-strategies.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Who Owns the Customer Experience at Your Company? Three Tips for Finding Out!</title>
<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of social and mobile channels into the customer service landscape is forcing companies to take a broader look at how to manage today&#8217;s customer conversation. While contact centers and agents still do most of the heavy lifting, departments like marketing and mobile apps are increasingly involved in the planning, design and management of today&#8217;s broader range of customer channels &#8211; this also includes the company&#8217;s web site.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/pete-wermter/2012/who-owns-the-customer-experience-at-your-company-three-tips-for-finding-out!.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is your Customer Service Reputation Being Stalked by a Social Vampire?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Vampire!  The very word conjures a dark chilly night, a full moon shining in through bedroom windows, and then a tall pale creature steps forward thirsting for your blood -- or hunky Robert Pattinson from Twilight.  Either image rarely haunts the minds of customer service leaders, until they get attacked by The Social Vampire.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jeff-woodland/2012/is-your-customer-service-reputation-being-stalked-by-a-social-vampire.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Top Three Reasons Companies Are Not Organized For On-Time Service Delivery</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, every customer service organization is awash in work.  Every day, contact centers, service centers and back office organizations receive hundreds and thousands of phone calls, web forms, applications and work items that all affect the customer experience.  Unfortunately, most companies are not optimized to process these discrete items as part of an interconnected customer service chain.  Here are the top three service delivery failures and what companies can do to optimize the customer experience.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/top-three-reasons-companies-are-not-organized-for-on-time-service-delivery.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>National UI Directors&amp;#8217; Conference and Legal Issues Forum</title>
<description><![CDATA[The conference will focus on critical policy issues and operational challenges state and federal officials are grappling with today. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.naswa.org/meetings/uidir/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Increasing Relevance of Customer Experience in the Subscription Economy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys recently announced its new SaaS offer at Dreamforce in San Francisco.  By announcing its direct SaaS offer and partnering with Salesforce.com, Genesys is building new and valuable relationships with its customers to support a rapidly changing marketplace.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/kentis-gopalla/2012/the-increasing-relevance-of-customer-experience-in-the-subscription-economy.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Social Media is Changing Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Find out more about how the Genesys Model for Social Engagement can help you prepare to deliver the new conversation that provides a better experience to your customers. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/webinars/social-engagement.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Delivering Value Through Insights </title>
<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s new customer converation in the contact center is dynamic with operational metrics that must be met. Find out how Genesys Performance Management products can help you know what you need to know.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/webinars/interactive-insights.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Taking the Effort Out of The Customer Experience </title>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how enterprise workflow processes can improve the customer experience and grow loyalty instead of frustration while reducing your operational costs.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/webinars/taking-the-effort-out-of-the-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Simplify, Virtualize &amp; Innovate Your Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Learn why Genesys SIP Server is the most reliable contact center solution on the market today. Plus, take a look at how it can fit into your customer service strategy.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/demos/sip.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Mobile Engagement</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are over one million apps available for today&#8217;s smart devices. Find out how to empower your app beyond branding.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/webinars/mobile-engagement.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>This is Football: Winning Conversations&lt;br&gt;with Customers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Every now and then, it is good to get back to basics. You already know that while traditional voice interactions are still essential, customers expect you to interact with them based on their preferred channel.  As you provide more options, it's essential to ensure a consistent experience across all interactions. To do this, intelligent multi-channel routing strategies are fundamental. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/janelle-matthews/2012/this-is-football-winning-conversations-with-customers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Should You Care About the ROI of&lt;br&gt;Social Customer Service?</title>
<description><![CDATA[In about a year&#8217;s time, I&#8217;m probably going to be buying a new car.  Personally, I have a big interest in electric cars.  I&#8217;m by no means a subject matter expert, but I follow blogs and news items on the topic and I think I would be making an informed decision. You could say that I&#8217;ve had an &#8220;a ha&#8221; moment, or perhaps an &#8220;uh oh&#8221; moment about cars and my personal preferences for motoring.  For the companies that are still not responding to customers&#8217; questions on social media, it&#8217;s a race against time.  Either you will experience the &#8220;a ha&#8221; moment first, or you will experience the &#8220;uh oh&#8221; moment first.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-mccrossan/2012/roi-of-social-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Missed Connections: Regulatory Compliance Meets Customer Communications</title>
<description><![CDATA[CEB TowerGroup and Genesys present this webinar designed specifically around trends in US banking and their research around critical technology initiatives financial institutions need to be addressing now.  ]]></description>
<link>https://www306.livemeeting.com/lrs/1100005398/Registration.aspx?pageName=bc2tc1r5l5cv7gw7</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Six Things You Can Do to Master Channel Chaos</title>
<description><![CDATA[As I recently prepared to present at the Contact Center conference in Miami regarding &#8220;Tools and Trends Enhancing the Customer Experience,&#8221; I continued to dwell on my operations experience in contact centers since 1990.  A lot has changed.   But at the same time, a lot has stayed the same.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bradley-baumunk/2012/channel-chaos.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>3 Changes to Better Manage&lt;br&gt;Your Back Office Workload</title>
<description><![CDATA[For many organizations within the insurance, telco and cable, healthcare, government, and financial services industries, a great customer experience is often made or destroyed in the back office. And, in many organizations the back office is drowning with overworked employees who unintentionally may be damaging your brand.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/3-changes-to-better-manage-your-back-office-workload.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Give Your Outsourcers a SIP of Genesys</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, one of the bigger technology changes in the contact center software has been moving from legacy, traditional telephony system to the promise of IP-based transport of voice, or SIP software.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/give-your-outsourcers-a-sip-of-genesys.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SOCAP International Annual Conference</title>
<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Annual Conference will feature outstanding keynote speakers, Spotlight Sessions featuring groundbreaking research and trends, interactive breakout sessions and unlimited networking with customer care leaders from more than 100 industry brands.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.socap.org/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>US Census: Talk About Big Data</title>
<description><![CDATA[At Genesys we always like to talk about the power of knowing who your customer is and how this can allow you to serve them better and more efficiently as well as increase your ability predict what they want to buy.  Viewed through this lens of wanting to provide the best service to your customers, the data available in the Census database becomes a real treasure trove of understanding of who is contacting you and what sorts of things they could be interested in.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/us-census-big-data.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Looking at Your Call Center ACD Report Start Training Your Call Center Agents</title>
<description><![CDATA[For many years, call center customer service operations have been handicapped by a lack of insight.  Ask any customer service manager for their wish list of tools to optimize their day-to-day job, and management information will most likely be at the top. Unfortunately, today&#8217;s call center manager is guided by the ACD report.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/stop-looking-at-your-call-center-acd-report.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Call Center Demo and Conference 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Featuring the latest tools and services for contact centers. Visit with vendors in a relaxed environment, sit in on a product demo, and see vital product offerings in action.]]></description>
<link>http://www.icmi.com/CCDemo?utm_source=CC%2BDemo%2BPartners&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_content=CC%2BDemo%2BExternal%2BPartners%2BBanner&amp;utm_campaign=Events</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Other Side of Waiting:&lt;br&gt;When People Choose to Wait in Line</title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week Keith Pearce wrote an interesting blog about the pain and perceptions of waiting in line and how perception of the wait is more important than the wait itself.  Keith got me thinking about lines and I was struck by how in some cases people really want to wait in them.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/the-other-side-of-waiting.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are Smartphone Exposing Enterprise Amnesia?</title>
<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s smartphone and device centric world we often find ourselves spreading our conversations across channels. It happens with our spouses, siblings, kids, friends and even the boss at work. The smartphone allows us this flexibility, and based on the proliferation of these devices, we should expect this trend to continue.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/eric-tamblyn/2012/are-smartphone-exposing-enterprise-amnesia.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Webcast Featuring PayPal</title>
<description><![CDATA[1:00 p.m. EST : Hear directly from PayPal how they created a vision of a fully channel-blended, global routing system that links the front office and the back office in this Live Webinar.]]></description>
<link>https://crmxchange.webex.com/crmxchange/onstage/g.php?d=716199652&amp;t=a&amp;sourceid=2 </link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Five Pillars to Achieve the Holy Grail of Outbound</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/the-five-pillars-to-achieve-the-holy-grail-of-outbound.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Finding the &quot;Jobs to be Done&quot; in Customer Service</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/michael-mcbrien/2012/finding-the-jobs-to-be-done-in-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Receives &amp;#8220;Strong Positive&amp;#8221; in Leading Analyst Firm&amp;#8217;s IVR Systems and Voice Portal Report</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys, a provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that it has received a &#8220;Strong Positive&#8221; rating - the highest rating possible - in Gartner&#8217;s &#8220;MarketScope for IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals&#8221; for its interactive voice response (IVR) and Intelligent Front Door (iCFD) solutions.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/ivr-market-scope.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Best Practices  Achieving Operational Alignment between the Contact Center and Back-office</title>
<description><![CDATA[For two decades, contact centers have been using some form of workforce management (WFM) software to forecast, schedule and track the activities of front-line agents.  As a result, the contact center has fine-tuned their operations and can utilize agent resources at very high levels of efficiency.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2012/best-practices-achieving-operational-alignment-between-the-contact-center-and-back-office.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Reminders of 2012-2013 End of Life Milestones</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/support-announcements/reminders-of-2012-2013-end-of-life-milestones.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Three Reasons to Celebrate Customer Service Week 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[This week, companies around the world will observe &#8220;Customer Service Week&#8221; to celebrate their customers and the contact center employees that service them.   This year is significant for several reasons.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/paul-segre/2012/three-reasons-to-celebrate-customer-service-week-2012.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Impressions from Dreamforce 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still recovering from Dreamforce 2012. There&#8217;s almost no way to describe the energy of 90,000 people at an event like this. But here are some of the highlights from my perspective.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/michael-mcbrien/2012/impressions-from-dreamforce-2012.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Creating the Ultimate Customer Experience</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-mccrossan/2012/creating-the-ultimate-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What We Can Learn From Bashir</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/what-we-can-learn-from-bashir.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Customer Engaged Enterprise</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/the-customer-engaged-enterprise.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Coaching Employees into Your Performance Sweet Spot</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/coaching-employees-into-your-performance-sweet-spot.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>BIG DATA and the Customer Service Experience</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/big-data-and-the-customer-service-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How Unoccupied Time is Killing Customer Service</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/keith-pearce/2012/how-unoccupied-time-is-killing-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Save The World From Bad Customer Service Tour-PA</title>
<description><![CDATA[Join the mission! See how Genesys can make you a customer service super hero. ]]></description>
<link>http://programs.genesyslab.com/SaveTheWorldTour/AllCities/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are you ready for the Social Workforce?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt the largest paradigm-shift witnessed in the customer experience management is the rise of social media. The concept of large groups of people posting on Facebook and Twitter and discuss their experiences with a company, product or service continues to change the way we form our opinion on a brand or make a buying decision.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/are-you-ready-for-the-social-workforce.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Brings Customer Service to the Cloud at Dreamforce 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys launches new solution built natively on the Salesforce Platform to give customers advanced customer service capabilities ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-brings-customer-service-to-the-cloud-at-dreamforce-2012.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>VHT Webinar &amp;#8211; &amp;#8220;Your Customer on Hold&amp;#8221;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Watch the free webinar!]]></description>
<link>https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=502491&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=26D03B94D480089021CB4F465ECBA992&amp;sourcepage=register</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Effort Scores for Healthcare?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Having had two weeks of political conventions wash over me and listening to so much about the fate of Medicare, the economy, our debt and our healthcare, it was interesting to read Richard Alonzo-Zaldiver&#8217;s online article, &#8220;US Health Care System Wastes $750B a Year.&#8221; ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/customer-effort-scores-for-healthcare.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys and Telekom Deutschland Announce New Cloud-Based Contact Center Solution</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys and Telekom Deutschland Announce New Cloud-Based Contact Center Solution]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-and-telekom-deutschland-announce-new-cloud-based-contact-center-solution.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>G-Force Barcelona 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[G-Force has always been an ideal time to engage your customers and prospects, and this year more than ever these premier customer experience events are not to be missed. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.gforcebarcelona2012.com/registration.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Saving the World from Bad Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about working for a company that specializes in customer service is that it&#8217;s relevant to everyone. We experience customer service nearly every day &#8211; so everyone &#8216;gets&#8217; how important it is.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/michael-mcbrien/2012/saving-the-world-from-bad-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2012]]></description>
<link>http://www-01.ibm.com/software/commerce/summit/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Skilled People Are the Key to Success</title>
<description><![CDATA[No organization can deny that skilled people are what make a good team great.   That is exactly what Genesys University provides - exceptional training on Genesys solutions, certifications to validate competency and program planning services that allow our customers talents to rise to any occasion. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/valerie-scavinner/2012/skilled-people-are-the-key-to-success.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>ISM Annual conference</title>
<description><![CDATA[ISM Annual conference]]></description>
<link>http://www.aphsa-ism.org/ISM2012/index.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>National Association of State Technology Directors (NASTD) 2012 Technology Showcase</title>
<description><![CDATA[Take a closer look at how state governments can provide world-class information technology services during an era of serious financial challenge.]]></description>
<link>https://stage.membership.nastd.org/nastd/Annual_Conference1.asp</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Research Finds Big Business Still Uneasy with Customer Service Conversations Over Social Media</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Research Finds Big Business Still Uneasy with Customer Service Conversations Over Social Media]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-research-finds-big-business-still-uneasy-with-customer-service-conversations-over-social-media.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Save The World From Bad Customer Service Tour</title>
<description><![CDATA[Join the mission! See how Genesys can make you a customer service super hero. ]]></description>
<link>http://programs.genesyslab.com/SaveTheWorldTour/AllCities/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Signs Cloud-Based Service Provider Agreement&amp;#8212;the First for Genesys in Japan with KDDI</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys signs Cloud-based service provider agreement&#8212;the first for Genesys in Japan with KDDI. KDDI leverages the Genesys platform to provide a comprehensive range of cloud-based contact center solutions]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-signs-cloud-based-service-provider-agreement-the-first-for-genesys-in-japan-with-kddi.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>G-Force Sydney 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[G-Force has always been an ideal time to engage your customers and prospects, and this year more than ever these premier customer experience events are not to be missed. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesysgforce.com.au/2012/registration/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Redefines the Mobile Customer Experience by Linking Mobile Apps with Customer Service Agents</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Redefines the Mobile Customer Experience by Linking Mobile Apps with Customer Service Agents]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-redefines-the-mobile-customer-experience-by-linking-mobile-apps-with-customer-service-agents.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Service Experience Conference &amp; Exhibition </title>
<description><![CDATA[Customer Service Experience Conference & Exhibition ]]></description>
<link>http://www.custservexperience.com/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MarketScope  for IVR Systems and Voice Portals 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Market research firm Gartner, Inc. rated Genesys as &#8220;Strong Positive&#8221; in its report titled &#8220;Market Scope for IVR Systems and Voice Portals&#8221; published on August 08, 2012 and authored by Jay Lassman and Bern Elliot.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/analyst-report/marketscope-for-ivr-systems-and-voice-portals-2012.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Adapting Your Contact Center for Multichannel Customers</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Webcast presented by West Interactive and Genesys, featuring Forrester Research]]></description>
<link>http://links.genesyslab.mkt4522.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NDUxNjI5NAS2&amp;r=MTgxMzE1MjA5NTcS1&amp;j=NDg1ODM4ODQS1&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0%%FORWARD_INFO%%</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>ZON Multimedia Enhances Customer Care with Genesys SIP Server</title>
<description><![CDATA[ZON Multimedia Enhances Customer Care with Genesys SIP Server]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/zon-multimedia-enhances-customer-care-with-genesys-sip-server.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Positioned in the &amp;#8220;Leaders&amp;#8221; Quadrant of Leading Analyst&amp;#8217;s Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-positioned-in-the-leaders-quadrant-of-leading-analyst&apos;s-quadrant-for-contact-center-infrastructure.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Acquires Innovative Self-Service Application and Service Provider LM Sistemas</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys Acquires Innovative Self-Service Application and Service Provider LM Sistemas]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-acquires-innovative-self-service-application-and-service-provider-lm-sistemas.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Korea Call Centre Management Conference 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[Recognizing that continuous communication with customers can be a growth engine in an increasingly severe competition, companies have put their interest into call centres, investing in them more than ever]]></description>
<link>http://edu.kmac.co.kr/eduinfo/con_notice_view.asp?Pk=4315</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The G-force Network Seminar In Osaka</title>
<description><![CDATA[The G-Force Network seminar will be held for the first time in the Kansai region, with the theme of "motivation management." Here, Genesys will introduce our latest solutions and case studies to Genesys customers, prospects and partners. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.co.jp/g-forcenetwork/seminar2012q2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Call Centre / Crm Demo &amp; Conference In Osaka</title>
<description><![CDATA[With the rapidly changing environment of communication, customer needs have become diverse and sophisticated, and contact centres are currently moving beyond the conventional framework of services. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.co.jp/genesys_library/event/event2012_04.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Brings Companies the Power of Klout Scores to Better Serve Social-Savvy Customers</title>
<description><![CDATA[New Klout Capabilities for Genesys Social Engagement Provide Companies with Insight into Customers with Broad Social influence]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-brings-companies-the-power-of-klout-scores-to-better-serve-social-savvy-customers.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Rides in the Tour de Cure to End  Diabetes and Raises Over $6,500</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-rides-in-the-tour-de-cure-to-end-diabetes-and-raises-over-$6500.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Executives Unsure About Where the Buck Stops for New Customer Communication Channels</title>
<description><![CDATA[Executives Unsure About Where the Buck Stops for New Customer Communication Channels, Finds New Genesys-sponsored Report]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/executives-unsure-about-where-the-buck-stops-for-new-customer-communication-channels.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Create The New Conversation - A Day Event In Wellington</title>
<description><![CDATA[A packed seminar with keynote presentations followed by a chance for you to speak with the experts. We unveil our hottest trends and solutions in customer engagement and share insights on how to improve bottom-line business results. ]]></description>
<link>http://links.genesyslab.mkt4522.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NDI3NDU3NwS2&amp;r=MTA4ODk5MDE5NDkS1&amp;j=NDQyNjAyMjQS1&amp;mt=2&amp;rj=NDQyNjAyMjMS1&amp;rt=0</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Mind the Gap: Lessons in Managing New Social and Mobile Channels</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys and the Economist recently surveyed more than 798 senior executives worldwide and found a significant gap within companies as they manage new social media and mobile channels. Learn more where enterprises should go from here...]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/mind-the-gap-lessons-in-managing-new-social-and-mobile-channels-2012-5-30.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Appoints James Budge as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer</title>
<description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley Veteran to Help Accelerate Genesys&#8217; Leadership Position and Growth]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-appoints-james-budge-as-chief-operating-officer-and-chief-financial-officer.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Shows Strong Momentum in First 100 Days as a Stand-Alone Company</title>
<description><![CDATA[Company achieves solid growth for 2011 and First Quarter of 2012 with healthy EBITDA]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-shows-strong-momentum-in-first-100-days-as-a-stand-alone-company.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Poised for Growth</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys has a new beginning. The Daly City contact center software pioneer already has annual revenue of more than $550 million, and it is growing at a rate of about 10 percent a year. And after quietly being spun out of French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent in a $1.5 billion private equity deal in February, President and CEO Paul Segre says Genesys is positioned to grow much more quickly by dramaticaly expanding the applications for its software, and likely by buying other companies.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/resources/pdfs/sfbt-050412-genesys.pdf</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How Many Tools are in Your Toolbox</title>
<description><![CDATA[The lesson learned was that performance management is important in measuring and continuously improving service, when used to look at more than one interaction at a time. Managing to averages alone often does not provide a full view of performance. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stuart-walters/2012/how-many-tools-are-in-your-toolbox-2012-5-10.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>See Genesys on the Mainstage with American Airlines at the Customer Response Summit 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[CRS4 will be an unprecedented gathering! Bringing "service" and "marketing" together to decide the future direction of customer experience and collaboration. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.customerresponsesummit.com/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>3 Reasons your Inbound Voice channel needs help</title>
<description><![CDATA[By addressing these 3 basic issues, you can convert customer calls to customer conversations. That means higher customer satisfaction. And that means your bottom line is a lot happier. Why are you NOT doing this?!?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/susan-stearman/2012/3-reasons-your-inbound-voice-channel-needs-help-2012-5-09.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys and the State of California Through Citizen Service Innovation</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/resources/pdfs/genesys-and-gavin.pdf</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Genesys Leaders Celebrate California Technology Innovation </title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/lieutenant-governor-gavin-newsom-and-genesys-leaders-celebrate-california-technology-innovation.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Contact Center Conference and Expo 2012</title>
<description><![CDATA[From aligning contact center goals to the corporate mission to making the decision to outsource, this track will discuss the frequently misunderstood subject of strategic planning. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.contactcenter2012.com/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>SOCAP International 2012 Symposium</title>
<description><![CDATA[This years Symposium will offer three days of unparalleled networking and idea sharing on critical business issues facing the customer care profession. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.socap.org/ConferencesEvents/PastEvents/2012Symposium.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Another Very Mobile GForce Day</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here we go with Day two of my very mobile Gforce. Does it look like Day one? Well, once these apps are embedded in your daily routine, the repetition is comforting. You know you can go back to your favorites and they will deliver. And you also know, there is an app out there for what you want to do; just gotta find it]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/another-very-mobile-gforce-day-2012-4-18.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Redefines the Mobile Customer Experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[With the Push of a &#8220;Smart Button&#8221; Genesys Mobile Engagement Unlocks Context, History and Live Assistance Capabilities for Mobile Applications]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-redefines-the-mobile-customer-experience.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>My Very Mobile GForce</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d specifically like to pick up on how impactful this new technology, always with me, always connected, and so powerful, can be showcased on a business trip. But this ain&#8217;t no ordinary business trip&#8230;it&#8217;s GForce! One of the biggest events in our industry!]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/my-very-mobile-gforce-2012-4-17.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Vodacom South Africa Customer Service Goes Social with Genesys</title>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/resources/pdfs/vodacom-pr_3-12-12_finalbc.pdf</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Planet of the Apps</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really excited see &#8220;business&#8221; apps step up. a lot of companies are going to spend a lot of time and money to make their apps much more engaging. I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing and using the ones that &#8220;get it&#8221;.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/planet-of-the-apps-2012-4-11.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>American Gas Association Conference And Expo</title>
<description><![CDATA[2012 Conference Theme will be Customer Engagement and Customer Experience. This year's conference also features a half day of low income / energy assistance session programming Monday afternoon PLUS a half day of Energy Efficiency session programming Thursday. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.aga.org/Events/2012Events/aga-eei-cust-srvc-conf-and-expo/Pages/Default.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>There&amp;#8217;s a dark chasm in the back office</title>
<description><![CDATA[On the other side of the dark chasm are the managers and workers in the back office who have good intentions to do great work, be productive and deliver great service, but they are not sure what the most important work is or when it should be done!]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/theres-a-dark-chasm-in-the-back-office-2012-4-06.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Basics of Social Customer Service and beyond</title>
<description><![CDATA[Get the basics right. Show the customer that you care by remembering who they are. Because the &#8220;basics&#8221; of social customer service is to know and remember the customer, and respond to them in the right manner]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bruce-eidsvik/2012/basics-of-social-customer-service-and-beyond-v2.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Basics of Social Customer Service... and beyond</title>
<description><![CDATA[Get the basics right. Show the customer that you care by remembering who they are. Because the &#8220;basics&#8221; of social customer service is to know and remember the customer, and respond to them in the right manner]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-mccrossan/2012/basics-of-social-customer-service-and-beyond.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why US Airlines Set a New Customer Service Record v2</title>
<description><![CDATA[The airline industry recently set a new, 22-year record for the best customer service. For an industry that has been the customer service punching bag, what happened and why the sudden change? And what can we learn from this turn events?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/charles-lee/2012/why-us-airlines-set-a-new-customer-service-record-v2.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why US Airlines Set a New Customer Service Record</title>
<description><![CDATA[The airline industry recently set a new, 22-year record for the best customer service. For an industry that has been the customer service punching bag, what happened and why the sudden change? And what can we learn from this turn events? ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/why-us-airlines-set-a-new-customer-service-record-2012-4-02.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys SIP Server Extends the Frontier of Customer Service Beyond the Contact Center</title>
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<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-sip-server.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Join Genesys in Denver for a New Conversation on Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Join Genesys & Sheila McGee-Smith and reinvent your customer experience. After the event, join us to watch the Denver Nuggets game.]]></description>
<link>http://t.content.alcatel-lucent-enterprise.com/res/alcatel/Denver_Web.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Not So Fast!</title>
<description><![CDATA[simply measuring customer satisfaction may be a misplaced goal. If the aim is to minimize churn and the impact of negative word-of-mouth, and increase the likelihood of repurchase and increased spend, companies would do well to focus on Customer Effort as a more reliable measurement.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mark-stanley/2012/not-so-fast!-2012-3-20.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why a conversation with your customer matters</title>
<description><![CDATA[In his blog from last year, Cliff Bell described how a conversation relates to enterprise/customer communication. I&#8217;d like to continue that thread and talk about why an enterprise should care. In working with customers through our business consulting practice, we have found that customer effort correlates to company effort. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/darryl-addington/2012/why-a-conversation-with-your-customer-matters-2012-3-13.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Uber Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[How can you create Uber Customer Service? A new upstart company in San Francisco is transforming inconsistent and shoddy customer service in the taxi and transportation world into a consistent and pleasant customer experience. What can we learn from this company and some new best-practices that enterprises can incorporate into their customer service organizations?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/uber-customer-service-2012-3-12.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lessons from Google&apos;s New Privacy Laws</title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys is on a mission to save the world from bad #custserv. One of the key causes of bad #custserv is lack of knowledge or intelligence of the customer when they feel the need to contact customer service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-mccrossan/2012/lessons-from-google&apos;s-new-privacy-laws.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What Mad Men and Tomorrow&amp;#8217;s Customer Analytics Have in Common</title>
<description><![CDATA[For over the past 40 years, companies have used the one-way mirror to glean insight into the consumer psyche. The Mad Men series often highlighted this methodology. In the future, big data and customer analytics will replace the one-way mirror with a push of the button.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/what-mad-men-and-tomorrows-customer-analytics-have-in-common-2012-2-29.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Back-office to the Future</title>
<description><![CDATA[With Genesys, enterprises can now address Employee Performance over the entire customer service chain. Front and back office. By including work items in to a unified channel experience and proactively route them to your employees we can now set priorities in line with the customer promise.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/stefan-captijn/2012/back-office-to-the-future-2012-2-28.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Announces New Board Members</title>
<description><![CDATA[Newly independent leader in customer experience solutions brings strong mix of strategy and execution experience to launch Genesys into next phase of growth]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-announces-new-board-members.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Do it Yourself Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Web self-service has become as commonplace as the bank ATM and airport kiosk. And smart phone platforms will also become the next self-service gateway. What can companies do to empower customers with do-it-yourself customer service?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/do-it-yourself-customer-service-2012-2-21.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Dreaming to be a Magic Angel?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, as an agent desktop application, Genesys Interaction Workspace supports 360-degree customer interactions in all channels and cross-channels. It is a true magic workspace that turns every customer service agent into a dear angel to their customers]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/charles-lee/2012/dreaming-to-be-a-magic-angel-2012-2-21.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Companies That Enable Us and What We Can Learn From Them</title>
<description><![CDATA[I always seem to spend a lot of money at the Apple Store &#8211; and I don&#8217;t mind. Apple knows how to engage and enable me. What can every customer-focused company learn from my recent the Apple Store experience to improve their customer service organization?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/the-companies-that-enable-us-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them-2012-2-19.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Service Checks and Balances</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, the US branches of government are set up with a set of checks and balances. I believe the customer service world is set up with a similar process between the contact center and social media. Yet, 2012 will bring changes as these two branches of customer service become integrated.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/customer-service-checks-and-balances-2012-2-10.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Getting back to Basics with Conversations that Matter</title>
<description><![CDATA[The new conversation means you engage with your customers. It means you are smart about your segmentation across all your channels. It means you deliver a continuous engagement with a 360 view of the customer from initial contact through resolution. Using the best fundamentals enables you to deliver the new conversation]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/susan-stearman/2012/getting-back-to-basics-with-conversations-that-matter-2012-2-09.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Closed-Loop Customer Service </title>
<description><![CDATA[Web self-service has become as commonplace as the bank ATM and airport kiosk. And smart phone platforms will also become the next self-service gateway. What can companies do to empower customers with do-it-yourself customer service?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/closed-loop-customer-service-2012-2-02.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Sets Course for New Future</title>
<description><![CDATA[Customer experience software leader officially enters into next stage of growth as a stand-alone company &#8211; backed by marquee investors in the Permira funds and Technology Crossover Ventures.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-sets-course-for-new-future.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Welcome to the New Genesys</title>
<description><![CDATA[As a stand-alone company backed by Permira funds and Technology Crossover Ventures, Genesys begins its new future with a 100% focus on the customer experience as it builds upon its leadership position as a global provider of contact center and software and services.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/news/welcome-to-the-new-genesys.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>New Year, New Winning Conversation Approaches v2</title>
<description><![CDATA[This new conversation era is here now. It will seriously change the rules of customer interactions and we will see some wise companies understanding the value of quickly implementing new winning conversation approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mayur-anadkat/2012/new-year,-new-winning-conversation-approaches-v2.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>New Year, New Winning Conversation Approaches</title>
<description><![CDATA[This new conversation era is here now. It will seriously change the rules of customer interactions and we will see some wise companies understanding the value of quickly implementing new winning conversation approaches.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/mickael-lefebvre/2012/new-year,-new-winning-conversation-approaches-2012-1-26.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Customer Conversation Evolution</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over the past 30 years, the customer conversation has evolved dramatically. These conversations span the superficial to engaging. Let&#8217;s explore the evolution of the customer conversation and assess its current state. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2012/the-customer-conversation-evolution-2012-1-23.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The ROI of Social Engagement v2</title>
<description><![CDATA[Roughly 2 years ago you couldn&#8217;t say &#8220;Social Media&#8221; around business people without being asked &#8220;what&#8217;s the ROI?&#8221; Today that question is rarely asked&#8230; So what happened? As many smart companies have found, the hard ROI of social media may be difficult to measure, but the value is clear.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bruce-eidsvik/2012/the-roi-of-social-engagement-v2.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The ROI of Social Engagement</title>
<description><![CDATA[Roughly 2 years ago you couldn&#8217;t say &#8220;Social Media&#8221; around business people without being asked &#8220;what&#8217;s the ROI?&#8221; Today that question is rarely asked&#8230; So what happened? As many smart companies have found, the hard ROI of social media may be difficult to measure, but the value is clear. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/patrick-mackey/2012/the-roi-of-social-engagement-2012-1-18.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Mobile: Device or Application</title>
<description><![CDATA[You can spend a lot of time debating just what mobile is and what it means and what makes it interesting, but Mobile is going to make the need for a seamless cross channel conversation real, and immediate for all of your customers very soon.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/mobile-device-or-application-2012-1-12.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Service Checks and Balances v2</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, the US branches of government are set up with a set of checks and balances. I believe the customer service world is set up with a similar process between the contact center and social media. Yet, 2012 will bring changes as these two branches of customer service become integrated.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/charles-lee/2012/customer-service-checks-and-balances-v2.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Mobile &amp;#8211; not another silo, please</title>
<description><![CDATA[The mobile revolution is coming fast and it&#8217;s being led by consumers. please just make sure that mobile and for that matter all of your customer facing tools and experiences are integrated and provide context and consistency across all of the channels, ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/max-ball/2012/mobile-not-another-silo,-please-2012-1-10.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Great Individual Performances Needed Here!</title>
<description><![CDATA[Beyond encouraging people to work as a team, successful athletic organizations actively coach and develop the individual skills required for great performances. The same concept holds true for customer service organizations. Here&#8217;s an idea! Let&#8217;s treat our people like customer service athletes and develop the skills they need to excel.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/great-individual-performances-needed-here!-2012-1-05.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is there a &amp;#8216;U&amp;#8217; in Team &amp;#8230;.when it comes to great Customer Service?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Great, game changing customer service like outstanding play on the field requires both great teamwork as well as superb individual performances Learn more about Genesys iWD (intelligent Workload Distribution) ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2012/is-there-a-u-in-team-.when-it-comes-to-great-customer-service-2012-1-04.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Best-in-class customer service begins right here&amp;#8230;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Once you deploy Genesys Framework then the core foundation for all Genesys solutions is in place. Based on your business needs, any of the Genesys Solutions can be easily deployed on top of Genesys Framework through modular approach.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/ramesh-rao-udipi/2012/best-in-class-customer-service-begins-right-here-2011-12-20.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Person of the Year: The Impassioned Customer</title>
<description><![CDATA[This past week, Time Magazine bestowed its Person of the Year honor upon the Protester. I believe there are many parallels between the Protester of 2011 and Impassioned Customer of 2011. And, these parallels define the top-5 customer events of 2011.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/person-of-the-year-the-impassioned-customer-2011-12-19.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Cloud by any other name drives Efficiency</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is there an agreed upon, industry wide set of definitions for the various service names? After many hours spent debating terms and definitions with industry pundits and colleagues alike, I can tell you most definitively, there is no consensus on the terms. It really doesn&#8217;t have to be this difficult; and it shouldn&#8217;t be this confusing. No matter what you call it, your needs remain the same.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/liz-osborn/2011/a-cloud-by-any-other-name-drives-efficiency-2011-12-15.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Turning a Crisis into a Customer Engagement Opportunity</title>
<description><![CDATA[My debit card was recently hacked, resulting in a personal customer service crisis. Fortunately, my bank was prepared to effectively resolve my issue &#8211; all while exceeding my expectations during this moment of truth. How can companies translate these unfortunate situations into customer engagement opportunities that drive loyalty?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/turning-a-crisis-into-a-customer-engagement-opportunity-2011-12-13.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why Move to the Cloud? The 3 F&amp;#8217;s</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are a myriad of reasons why companies of all sizes decide to move their contact center and customer service software into the cloud; most drivers can be boiled down into three categories, what I call the three F&#8217;s of the cloud: focus, flexibility and freedom.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/liz-osborn/2011/why-move-to-the-cloud-the-3-fs-2011-12-12.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Ready for Mash Up Metrics?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, companies rely upon antiquated metrics to measure customer service and experience. With new data types emerging from social media and analytics solutions, can we now mash up or create custom metrics leveraging traditional and new customer data?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/are-you-ready-for-mash-up-metrics-2011-12-07.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys enables Ping An of China to become the country&amp;#8217;s first financial services company to provide video-based customer service</title>
<description><![CDATA[New Genesys solution will support China's largest contact center and nearly 9,000 agents connected across Shanghai, Suzhou and Shenzhen]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/news-and-events/press-releases/genesys-enables-ping-an-of-china-to-become-the-countrys-first-financial-services-company-to-provide-video-based-customer-service.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Another Way to Change the Customer Experience </title>
<description><![CDATA[Another Way to Change the Customer Experience. What&#8217;s a little different is it&#8217;s not about getting better service from them, it&#8217;s actually about how they could make me offers so I&#8217;d actually pay attention. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/jay-gunnell/2011/another-way-to-change-the-customer-experience-2011-12-06.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Evolution of the SIP Revolution </title>
<description><![CDATA[Genesys introduced the SIP Server solution in 2005, and it&#8217;s now the industry leading IP contact center solution. The SIP solution allows customers to replace their entire switching, ACD, and T-Server environments with one, open, all software, product]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-barton/2011/evolution-of-the-sip-revolution-2011-12-01.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Can I have a SIP please?</title>
<description><![CDATA[SIP seems to be this neat technology and people are talking about its capabilities, but what does it really mean to you? One word: Freedom! Freedom of choice for implementation --- freedom of choice for location -- freedom of choice for media type &#8211; freedom of choice for hardware --- freedom of choice for software]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/charles-lee/2011/can-i-have-a-sip-please-2011-11-29.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Big-Data the Big-Fix for Cross Channel Customer Service?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Big-Data has rapidly become one of the top enterprise-wide initiatives. As companies begin to implement their Big-Data strategies incorporating mountains of customer service data, can they finally resolve the siloed cross-channel challenges that have habitually plagued their customer service organizations?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/is-big-data-the-big-fix-for-cross-channel-customer-service-2011-11-28.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Service Has Gone Social</title>
<description><![CDATA[I would like to personally invite you to an exclusive event, ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/lisa-abbott/2011/customer-service-has-gone-social-2011-11-21.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why 2012 will Transform Mobile Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[As 2011 rapidly draws to a close, customer service and contact center organizations are reflecting on what lies ahead for 2012. What new technologies and trends will change how companies engage with its customers? Which future innovations will have the greatest impact on consumer behavior? Learn why 2012 will be a transformative year for mobile customer service and what to expect in the year ahead.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/why-2012-will-transform-mobile-customer-service-2011-11-17.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Social Customer Service and the &quot;2 Percent&quot; Problem</title>
<description><![CDATA[As more consumers become comfortable utilizing social media for customer service, how can they prepare themselves and scale to meet the growing influx of social media customer service interactions alongside their traditional phone and web counterparts?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/randy-brasche/2011/social-customer-service-and-the-2-percent-problem-2011-11-14.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Social Media and Customer Service</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, Friday 11th November, in London we will bring this to life. We will hear from Dr Natalie (http://www.drnatalienews.com) on the ROI of social media; we will hear from Dave Carroll (www.UnitedBreaksGuitars.com) on the attitude shift that organisations need to make]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/richard-mccrossan/2011/social-media-and-customer-service-2011-11-10.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>T-server Opens the Platform</title>
<description><![CDATA[A key benefit of the Genesys product from the start has been our philosophy of being an open platform for enabling customer conversations. At first I thought it might not be sexy enough to write about the legacy but key Genesys core component, which makes it possible for Genesys solutions to be open and infrastructure-independent. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/akbar-riahi/2011/t-server-opens-the-platform-2011-11-03.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Open platform is too techie for me</title>
<description><![CDATA[And you thought &#8220;open systems&#8221; was some techie magic that didn&#8217;t relate to your business needs &#8211; think again. An open solution built on industry standards enables contact centers to enhance, extend, leverage, and future-proof their solution]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/susan-stearman/2011/open-platform-is-too-techie-for-me-2011-11-01.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is the IVR dead?</title>
<description><![CDATA[There has been a great deal of discussion lately regarding the death of the contact center IVR. Do people still use IVRs? Has the role of IVR in the contact center been replaced with other channels? Is being crated up and snuck out in the midst of a rainy night all that&#8217;s left? ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/rob-marchand/2011/is-the-ivr-dead-2011-10-29.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>IVR as a concierge not a gate keeper </title>
<description><![CDATA[IVR applications have been and still are largely designed to help consumers under the assumption that picking up the phone is the first thing they do. So what will happen to IVRs over the next 5 years?]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/darryl-addington/2011/ivr-as-a-concierge-not-a-gate-keeper-2011-10-25.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What is a Conversation</title>
<description><![CDATA[The way we as customers interact with enterprises has changed significantly in recent years. There are two dynamics contributing to the challenge of holistically serving customers in today&#8217;s multi-channel consumer environment.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/cliff-bell/2011/what-is-a-conversation-2011-10-19.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why extend your customer service operation beyond the contact center? </title>
<description><![CDATA[There are a number of reasons why a company may choose to include non contact center resources in the customer service operation. These break down into three main areas: Skills, Cost savings, and Sales.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/darryl-addington/2011/why-extend-your-customer-service-operation-beyond-the-contact-center-2011-10-17.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Genesys Quality Management &amp;#8211; New Recording Technology is on the Way! </title>
<description><![CDATA[Active Recording for SIP Server environments is well on its way and that&#8217;s not all that we have planned also Pause & Resume call recording control, Screen Recording control, supporting other switch/T-Server environments like Alcatel-Lucent OXE/A4400 and Avaya, and improvements for multi-SIP Server and larger SIP Server environments. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dave-smith/2011/genesys-quality-management-new-recording-technology-is-on-the-way!-2011-10-11.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>How did Customer Service get so smart</title>
<description><![CDATA[Some of the seniors out there may remember when companies were just completely dumb when or if they attempted to contact you. Usually, it was a blind call and they had no idea that you were already a life-time customer.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2011/how-did-customer-service-get-so-smart-2011-10-11.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Customer Effort &amp;#8211; Prevention is better than Cure &amp;#8211; Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[Part 2 &#8211; Understanding the symptoms&#8230; In the hit US TV series &#8216;House&#8217;, Dr Gregory House M.D. (portrayed by the great English actor Hugh Laurie) and his oft times harassed team are usually faced with a set of symptoms that]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/brendan-dykes/2011/customer-effort-prevention-is-better-than-cure-part-2-2011-10-06.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Changing the Conversation?</title>
<description><![CDATA[We want to welcome you to our next journey &#8211; changing the conversation. I am introducing a new blog series authored by my esteemed colleagues in the Genesys Product Marketing team. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/susan-stearman/2011/are-you-changing-the-conversation-2011-10-03.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>CR and QM... Everyone Is Doing It</title>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been available for over 1 year now &#8230;you should know about it! You should already be aware of the new set of Genesys applications that became available approximately one year ago that can be used by our customers to record their voice interactions and to improve the way their agents handle calls]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dave-smith/2011/cr-and-qm...-everyone-is-doing-it-2011-10-03.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why are they calling me?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The companies that you do business with, are contacting you. Did you notice? Believe it or not, they often communicate highly personalized and helpful information. They inform, move a task along its way, collect information and payments or even update your schedule.]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/dudley-larus/2011/why-are-they-calling-me-2011-10-03.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is your IT department failing you?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been holding back on launching this topic for some time. Getting down on IT is like publicly bashing the tax department. You complain at your risk and the downside risk is pretty high. The upside is uncertain since a]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bruce-eidsvik/2011/is-your-it-department-failing-you-2011-9-23.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>it&amp;#8217;s what you don&amp;#8217;t do, that&amp;#8217;s more important</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading a compelling article in the most recent Economist (Aug. 27th &#8211; Sept 2nd) on the departure of Steve Jobs from Apple. There has already been a ton written on the subject, however, I wanted to highlight one]]></description>
<link>http://www.genesyslab.com/blogs/authors/bruce-eidsvik/2011/its-what-you-dont-do,-thats-more-important-2011-8-29.aspx</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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