Phil Kitchen - Customer Contact Panel - Jamaica Is Moving Beyond The Nearshore
Release Date: 04/17/2025
Amanda Quinn - Quinn Growth Advisors - BPOs Must Specialize or Die Trying
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Amanda Quinn is the Founder and Principal of Quinn Growth Advisors. She is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. In this conversation with Peter Ryan, Amanda talks about her work advising BPOs on how to build growth and develop a sales pipeline. Amanda advises focusing on deep expertise and specialization, rather than claiming to offer every single service and excelling at none of them. How can BPOs compete and leverage technology to improve what they offer to clients? SUMMARY: Mark Hillary and Peter Ryan discuss the challenges faced by BPOs (Business Process Outsourcing) in the...
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Mike Ortegon - Yoummday - How Travel Is Taking Off
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Mike Ortegon is a customer solutions director at Yoummday. He is an American based in London and he has a focus on the global travel industry - with a long track record of leadership roles in travel companies. Mark Hillary called Mike to talk about travel. How has it recovered since the pandemic? What trends are travel companies seeing that are new for the 2020s? Are travel companies becoming more proactive in their approach to the customer experience? Why are some people around the world protesting that there is too much tourism now? Mike talked about all these issues and explored how the...
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Jon Florence - Xima Software - AI In The Contact Center
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Thomas Oronti - Advensus - From Beaches to BPO: How the Dominican Republic Became a CX Star
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Thomas Oronti is the CEO at Advensus. He is based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The CX Files has explored many different nearshore options in the Caribbean region, but has never explored the Dominican Republic before and yet this location has the advantage of being able to easily offer customer support in English, Spanish, and French - thanks to Haiti also sharing the island of Hispaniola. Peter Ryan talked to Thomas about the growing importance of the DR in the nearshore CX and BPO sector and how Advensus strongly focuses on the role of the agent in any CX strategy. SUMMARY:...
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PANEL: In Face of Stagnating Favorability Ratings, What’s Next for South African Offshore CX?
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PANEL: In Face of Stagnating Favorability Ratings, What’s Next for South African Offshore CX? When Ryan Strategic Advisory published the most favorable offshore location study last May, South Africa had dropped to third position, compared to more recently topping the poll. This survey features feedback from over 800 CX decision-makers and is potentially the largest survey that explores where CX leaders will consider operations. India and the Philippines are now the most popular destinations, but have these giant destinations just reasserted their postiion or is something going wrong in...
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Pete Jones - Grypp - Why Are We Still Asking Agents to Work with Their Eyes Shut?
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Pete Jones is the founder and CEO of Grypp. He is based in the UK between London and Birmingham. Grypp is a visual platform that aims to help contact centers and the agents working within them see what their customers can see. This can be a transformative technology for many support environments and it is low cost and proven - in contrast to many of the AI projects we have covered recently on the podcast. Mark Hillary called Pete to get an ouline of the various ways in which a visual approach to CX can transform how the support process works and how this also creates opportunities for managing...
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Mythbusting AI In CX - The Truths No One Tells You
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Nicola Collister and Jerry Briggs talk to Peter Ryan about AI in CX We have talked many times on this podcast about AI and the hype aound what it can do for CX designers and managers. But what can it really do? We are being flooded with AI-themed ideas on LinkedIn daily, but it is also clear that many AI projects are failing (Gartner says that 85% of AI projects are failing at present). In this episode Peter Ryan aims to do some myth-busting. Where is AI in CX today? What are the real use cases and where is the hype? Peter talked to two CX leaders - in the UK and US - to discuss their thoughts...
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Owen Campbell - Kura - How BPOs Can Work With Regulated Industries
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Owen Campbell is the operations director at Kura. He is based in Glasgow, Scotland. Kura is a BPO based in the UK, but also with operations in South Africa. They have a number of clients from various regulated industries and Owen talked to Mark Hillary about the differences between a client that has complete control over all their services and a client from a more regulated environment. What needs to be considered when working to design CX for a regulated industry? SUMMARY Mark Hillary and Peter Ryan discuss the complexities of customer experience (CX) in regulated industries with...
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David Neale - GBPO Solutions - Building Trust In BPO Sales Claims
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David Neale is the Founder and CEO of GBPO Solutions. He is based in the UK. David has experience as a buyer of BPO services and as a representative of BPOs. With this insight he decided that one of the missing ingredients in the BPO sales process is transparency - how does anyone know that what a BPO says about their services is really true? David founded GBPO Solutions to provide accreditation to BPOs, so if they do make claims about their capabilities then they can point to the accreditation to show that their claims can be verified. David talked to Mark Hillary about why he started GBPO...
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CXOutsourcers 2025 - Feedback From Munich Delegates
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The 2025 CXOutsourcers event took place earlier in May in Munich, Germany. Peter called on a few of the delegates to get their feedback and key takeaways from the event. --- Peter Ryan talked to: Carrie Ramskill - COO HGS (UK) Ahmed Refky - CEO Planovate (Orlando, FL, USA) Kevin Lightfoot - CMO Ascension International (Frisco, TX, USA)
info_outlinePhil Kitchen is the Founder & Managing Director of Customer Contact Panel. He is based in Sheffield, UK.
He recently attended the Outsource 2 Jamaica conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Peter Ryan caught up with him to discuss what Jamaica is offering to potential clients in locations such as the UK - outside their more traditional US nearshore market.
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