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Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

According to Gartner, by the end of this year 85% of customer service interactions will start with self-service. The best field service solutions will include consumer portals that can make scheduling service visits easy for customers by offering control over their experience. About the Author.

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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. In addition, you always have to account for bias in that reporting: Vendors are going to highlight the data that makes their technology look good. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004.

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Engage Your Workforce and Improve the Bottom Line

Call Design

Bliss 2004), you can see why turnover, or minimising it, is so important. Technology has enabled contact centres to deflect simple calls from agents to self-service for years, and this trend continues in the current environment. A big problem for all contact centres has been how to retain staff and reduce attrition.

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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. In addition, you always have to account for bias in that reporting: Vendors are going to highlight the data that makes their technology look good. They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004.

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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. While this is happening economically, we’re seeing another macro trend: more outstanding technological capabilities and applications for conversational AI.

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

Babelforce

Conversational AI is the technology that allows people to speak directly to computers. The vast reach of this technology means that, in the U.S., 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. Where is this tech used?

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Happy Sweet Sixteen, Creative Virtual!

Creative Virtual

I’m very proud to say that our first enterprise customer, Lloyds Banking Group, who we first worked with in 2004, are still a customer today. Last year we had further external recognition from analyst group Frost & Sullivan when they named us the AI-Enhanced Customer Self-Service Product Leader – another impressive accomplishment!