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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. Optimize Your Self-Service Channels.

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

It’s hard to get clear, objective data about the overall state of self-service technology. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent. Optimize Your Self-Service Channels.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

The decline continued but stabilized around 2004 until the Great Recession of 2008 hit, which severely affected the labor participation rate. Traditional IVRs aren’t cutting it anymore as the bodies needed to fill in aren’t there to take the calls. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service.

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Conversational AI is Here to Stay, But What Exactly is it?

Babelforce

In the contact center, the primary use for Conversational AI is IVR technology. IVR isn’t generally the best-loved piece of kit in customer services. That’s often because the IVR system is seen as a barrier to actual service. Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the technology that generates responses.

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Client Interview Series: Ding Yi at Ant Financial

COPC

Before implementing our new AI-supported voice interaction system into our service operations, we looked at what solutions were available through existing technologies. By the middle of 2018, the average daily volume of self-service was 4.84 Second, the service industry has traditionally been very labor-intensive.

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Convince Your Boss: It’s Time for Digital Transformation

Aspect

Blockbuster, who at its peak in 2004, had more than 9,000 stores in the U.S., and asked for $50 million for the company he founded. **Spoiler Alert** Blockbuster declined. Today, Netflix is worth more than $60 Billion. now has only 10 franchise-owned stores remaining in operation in the U.S.: six in Alaska, three in Oregon, and one in Texas.

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What’s All This Fuss About Composability?

ConvergeOne

Neumann in 2004 for an unbiased look at the approach: “One of the biggest obstacles to software development — and particularly system integration — is the difficulty of predictably composing subsystems out of modules, systems out of subsystems, and networks of systems out of systems and networking.”.

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