As centers tackle their challenges and pursue their priorities, I believe we will see a strong focus on the agent experience, and the result should be better customer experience, as well.

As centers pursue bots, RPA, and a variety of AI-enabled capabilities, it is imperative that we consider the people and process changes that go hand-in-hand with these powerful tools.

We have some noticeable movement this year. It reflects our dynamic industry in what the vendors are offering, how the labor market is changing, and how centers are maturing.

Integrating disparate applications into a coherent contact center technology architecture remains the number one challenge.

Perhaps now we’re moving into an era where the technology can help achieve “genetic engineering” to change some of those fundamental challenges, or provide better ways to tackle them.