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Research and Markets: Customer Engagement in Government and Education in Europe and North America
[October 20, 2014]

Research and Markets: Customer Engagement in Government and Education in Europe and North America


DUBLIN --(Business Wire)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9z8plg/customer) has announced the addition of the "Customer Engagement in Government and Education in Europe and North America " report to their offering.

This study's objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the government and education vertical. The use of Web self-service, social media, mobile applications, and video are expected to increase over the next 2 years, but LiveAgent voice and email will likely decline. Centers are mostly multichannel integrated, but more contact centers in North America are fully integrated than in Europe. Organizations plan to increase the use of social media strategies by 2016, with priority given to the dedicated customer support forums and integration with other contact channels. Centers in North America will make more social media investments than in Europe.

This research study is part of a series of survey-based studies that look at the current and future adoption of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services. The survey daa and insights allow contact center organizations to understand industry and technology trends and apply the findings in their business.



The following studies are part of this series:

  • Customer Engagement in Financial Services in Europe and North America
  • Customer Engagement in Retail and Consumer in Europe and North America
  • Customer Engagement in Manufacturing in Europe and North America
  • Customer Engagement in Communications in Europe and North America
  • Customer Engagement in Government and Education in Europe and North America
  • Customer Engagement in Healthcare in Europe and North America

Key Topics Covered:


1. Research Background, Objectives, and Methodology

2. Executive Summary

3. Customer Interactions Channels

4. Integration across All Customer Contact Channels

5. Prevalence of Automation

6. Prevalence of Speech Recognition in Interactive Voice Response Interactions

7. The Future of Outbound Customer Interactions

8. Social Media Customer Contact Strategy

9. Mobile Customer Contact Strategy

10. Potential Restraints to Achieving Multichannel Customer Contact Center Goals

11. Prevalence of Systems and Applications

12. Number of Agent Performance Optimization Vendors Sourced

13. Integration of Agent Performance Optimization Applications

14. Primary Use Cases for Agent Performance Optimization Applications

15. Restraints to Leveraging Customer Insights

16. Current Use of Hosted/Cloud Solutions

17. Important Factors in the Decision to Move to Hosted/Cloud Solutions

18. Hosted/Cloud Contact Center Applications

19. Hosted/Cloud Contact Center Vendors

20. Restraints to Moving to Hosted/Cloud Contact Center Solutions

21. Customer Care Functions Outsourced

22. Outsourcing Customer Contact Channels

23. Priority of Consistent and Seamless Customer Experiences

24. Outsourced Contact Center Seats/Agents

25. Outsourcing Locations

26. Number of Outsourcers Used

27. Important Factors in Outsourcer Selection

28. Restraints to Using Outsourcers

29. Key Takeaways

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9z8plg/customer


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