Upstream Works

MARCH 3, 2023

As a result, it is difficult to gauge the success of a chatbot in interacting with and meeting the needs of customers. IVRs were generic systems that ran customized business applications – applications that were designed to meet a specific self-service need for that business. The same goes for any other vendor on the market.

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 17, 2022

Digital transformation poses distinct operational challenges for the contact center that go beyond the customer and agent experience; we’ll address two of those challenges here. A key change is the need for seamless omnichannel communication with the growing use of digital channels by customers.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 15, 2022

At a high level, it’s easy to view AI as a silver bullet to help improve customer experience (CX), as well as contact center operations through automation. While automation is clearly a strong benefit for deploying AI applications, customer service is still a personal, human-to-human experience.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 20, 2023

These may seem like unrelated events, but they all have a role to play in defining the state of customer service in 2023 and will have implications for contact centers. There are two main lenses through which these factors must be filtered: customer experience (CX) and agent experience (AX).

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. The current state of customer experience is more challenging. Think Beyond the Contact Center.

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Nicereply

JULY 16, 2019

Listen to what your customers have to say, and make sure you have a clean-cut process to track customer insights that everyone in your company is able to access. Customer support, at first glance, seems pretty straightforward: a customer emails in (or tweets, or Facebooks, or sends a carrier pigeon) and you respond.

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Surveys Customer Experience Metrics Marketing 81

Russel Lolacher

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with author and employee experience leader Stacy Sherman on the latest employee experience workforce trends your organization needs to watch and plan for in the years ahead. DoingCXRight Website – Contact , Podcast , Blog , Mentorship. WORKING FROM HOME. Stacy Sherman.

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Natalie Petouhof

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Tweet What’s Happening in the World of Shopping and Customer Experiences? At the National Retail Federation Annual Convention in New York City, Microsoft made announcements with GameStop, Hardee’s, TGI Fridays, Panasonic, HP and FreedomPay, and NCR on efforts to modernize shopping experiences.

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