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The Myth of the Silver Bullet: Unraveling Quick Fixes in Business

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: “Colin, could you tell me the one thing that we need to do to improve our Customer Experience ?” This question is one that many of my clients want to ask me. They don’t say that in so many words, but effectively, that’s what they were asking me to do.

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We Work Hard to Make It Look Easy

ShepHyken

My friend Norman Beck recently shared a quote that inspired him: We work hard to make it look easy. Isn’t that what the best people do? Whether it’s sports, entertainment, or business, some people are so good that what they do looks easy. I Googled the quote to find out who to attribute it to and found numerous variations: In sports, Ken Griffey Jr., a professional baseball player, said, “Just because I made it look easy doesn’t mean that it was, and you don’t work hard and become a Hall of

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The QUI Rule a.k.a. The GREAT Rule: Serve to WOW customers. Serve to CARE.

Bill Quiseng

You’ve heard of The Golden Rule: Treat people as you want to be treated. Dr. Tony Alessandra has shared with everyone about The Platinum Rule: Treat people as they want to be treated. Today I offer The QUI Rule also known as the GREAT Rule: Treat customers a little better than they want to be treated. You are happy because customers leave satisfied with your product or service.

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Securing the LLM Stack

Cisco - Contact Center

A few months ago, I wrote about the security of AI models, fine-tuning techniques, and the use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in a Cisco Security Blog post.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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3 Use Cases for Video CX in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

Our latest blog post explores three practical vertical use cases for video engagements in contact centers. The post 3 Use Cases for Video CX in the Contact Center appeared first on Upstream Works.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of March 25, 2024

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Benefiting Customer and Employee Satisfaction by John Dijulius (The Dijulius Group) AI and Machine Learning (ML) are not only here, but if it’s not already a major part of your business strategy moving forward, you may be in danger of be

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Build a receipt and invoice processing pipeline with Amazon Textract

AWS Machine Learning

In today’s business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their financial processes, enhance efficiency, and drive cost savings. One area that holds significant potential for improvement is accounts payable. On a high level, the accounts payable process includes receiving and scanning invoices, extraction of the relevant data from scanned invoices, validation, approval, and archival.

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Differentiated Experience with Cisco Catalyst Center and CX Services

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco Catalyst Center is a powerful network controller and management dashboard that simplifies customer IT operations in enterprise and campus networks via valuable insights, time-saving automation,… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Are CSAT Surveys Still Valuable? Hear From 4 CX Experts

Tethr

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys are embedded into many CX programs, but are they effective? 4 CX leaders weigh in.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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The Power of Women-Owned Call Center Partnerships

Outsource Consultants

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, Outsource Consultants wants to celebrate the incredible women leading the call center industry. Women have always been a driving force behind call center excellence, ( 71% of global employees are women ) — but this representation has not scaled as quickly at the ownership level. In 2024, expectations are that MORE women-owned call centers will gain client share because of the unique advantages clients are seeing by partnering with women-owne

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Introducing AI Recommended Questions

delighted

With tens of thousands of customers using Surveys after our October 2023 launch, we’re incredibly excited to announce a pivotal enhancement to the product: AI Recommended Questions. As soon as you add at least two questions to your survey, Delighted’s AI Recommended Questions will suggest three other questions for you to consider. Powered by Qualtrics AI , AI Recommended Questions is the ultimate survey creation assistant.

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Fine-tune your Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 model using Amazon Bedrock model customization

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Titan lmage Generator G1 is a cutting-edge text-to-image model, available via Amazon Bedrock , that is able to understand prompts describing multiple objects in various contexts and captures these relevant details in the images it generates. It is available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions and can perform advanced image editing tasks such as smart cropping, in-painting, and background changes.

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Building Bridges: The Power of Purpose Alignment for Positive Impact

Cisco - Contact Center

The quest for life’s meaning has been a constant throughout human history. Finding our personal purpose is essential for our emotional well-being and fulfillment as human beings.

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Contact Center Dialers Demystified

Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.

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5 Best Web Hosting Providers for Non-Profit Organizations

OctopusTech

Non-profit Organizations are essential in the digital world for they address societal issues and effect social change. A strong online presence is essential to expanding influence in the non-profit sector, as the internet has emerged as a primary tool for outreach and engagement. It might be challenging to choose the best web hosting company to meet the unique needs of nonprofit institutions.

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Best Practices in BPO Vendor Management

Global Response

Deciding to partner with a business processing outsourcing (BPO) vendor is a strategic move for companies of all sizes. It streamlines processes, saves money, and improves the overall quality of customer service. While outsourcing BPO services provides a host of benefits, it also comes with the challenges of managing a third-party relationship. Today, we’ll explore BPO vendor management and how you can establish a successful and long-lasting partnership.

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Transparent BPO Appoints Mo Kazi As Belize Site Director

Transparent BPO

Experienced leader with global BPO experience with a proven track record of developing both teams and operational growth. Rockville, MD – Transparent BPO would like to welcome Emahn Sanchez to the Transparent BPO Executive Team as our new Vice President of Philippines Operations. Emahn joins Transparent BPO with an impressive background and deep experience leading […] The post Transparent BPO Appoints Mo Kazi As Belize Site Director appeared first on Transparent BPO.

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Best practices for building secure applications with Amazon Transcribe

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Transcribe is an AWS service that allows customers to convert speech to text in either batch or streaming mode. It uses machine learning–powered automatic speech recognition (ASR), automatic language identification, and post-processing technologies. Amazon Transcribe can be used for transcription of customer care calls, multiparty conference calls, and voicemail messages, as well as subtitle generation for recorded and live videos, to name just a few examples.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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SD-Routing: Unlock Agility and Efficiency for the Secure WAN Edge

Cisco - Contact Center

Many Cisco enterprise customers have decades of Cisco Catalyst routing and security capabilities functioning at branch locations.

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CX Roadmaps to Omnichannel Customer Engagement 

Concentrix

Discover how Concentrix can help improve your customer engagement strategy in our takeaways from Retail Omnichannel Futures Summit.

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Utilizing Customer Journey Mapping to Enhance Service

Global Response

Excellent customer service aims to anticipate and meet needs before customers are even aware of them. You want to create a seamless, personalized experience. And the best way to do that is to start with a customer journey map. What is customer journey mapping? Customer journey mapping is a visual representation of every experience customers have with you.

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Case Study: Generative AI: Advancing Agent Experiences in the Gig Economy

24-7 InTouch

What if, instead of coaching associates on their past mistakes, you could prevent those mistakes in real time? Introducing Sidd, Laivly’s virtual real-time AI assistant that guides associates through complex processes with best actions to take, checklists, and automated approvals. This agile technology integrates with your existing software using an augmented display screen overlay, moving from post-contact interactions to providing real-time coaching.

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The Rise of the AI Coaching System: Powering the Empathic Enterprise

Contact center leaders understand that frontline agents need in-call guidance to manage complex calls and drive higher levels of employee and customer experience. Real-time agent assist technology is enabling leading contact centers to accomplish these goals.

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Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. These datasets encompass a broad range of topics and domains. Although the resulting models yield amazingly good results for general tasks, such as text generation and entity recognition, there is evidence that models trained with domain-specific datasets can further improve LLM

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Sustainability 101: What is environmental reporting?

Cisco - Contact Center

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more?

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Enhancing Safety with Blue Light Phones: Introducing AirDial by VirtualPBX

VirtualPBX

Ensuring safety in public spaces is paramount. One of the cornerstones of public safety is the presence of emergency phones, often recognized by their distinctive blue lights. However, not all emergency phones feature this iconic blue light. In fact, there are various types of emergency phones serving different purposes. In this blog, we delve into the realm of blue light phones and introduce AirDial by VirtualPBX, a revolutionary solution for enhancing emergency communication.

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IdeasUnlimited Shines with the 2023 Houston Award in the Call Center Category

IdeasUnlimited

In a remarkable acknowledgment of excellence and dedication, IdeasUnlimited has been honored with the prestigious 2023 Houston Award in the Call Center category. This recognition by the Houston Award Program, acknowledges the company’s outstanding contributions to the local community and its exceptional service in the business sector. The Houston Award Program annually celebrates local businesses that demonstrate significant achievements in their respective fields.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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TeamSupport's Role in Maximizing ROI and Cultivating Customer Service Excellence

TeamSupport

If you’re in the customer support world, then you know that achieving excellence in the space requires more than addressing customers’ immediate needs. You must first redefine what customer service means entirely. It's here that TeamSupport Software shines, revolutionizing customer support management. Moreover, it supports your business in maximizing Return on Investment (ROI) and transforming overall business results.

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Boost your content editing with Contentful and Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Matt Middleton from Contentful. Today, jointly with Contentful, we are announcing the launch of the AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock. The AI Content Generator powered by Amazon Bedrock is an app available on the Contentful Marketplace that allows users to create, rewrite, summarize, and translate content using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available and accessible through Amazon Bedrock in a simple and secure manner.

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AI Trends in Program Management

Cisco - Contact Center

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world according to the popular press and the statements of tech CEOs in the last year.