ShepHyken

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Titled “The NOW of Work,” the ebook focuses on what’s new in technology, employee communication and motivation, and more. Giving the customer a self-service experience, which goes beyond customer service/support, but is baked into the entire buying process, is a good place to start.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Self-service is finally coming of age, with leading enterprises embracing the paradigm of customers helping themselves. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 10% of initial B2C interactions will be virtual, up from less than 1% in 2019. But it turns out that not all self-service options are created equal.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

When invited to compile this list of customer service trends for 2020, naturally the first thing I did was look back at all of the predictions made the previous year. The influence of AI in the contact center was strongly touted, but in 2020 (after a number of false starts), artificial intelligence will finally start […].

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 12, 2021

Today we announced Creative Virtual’s latest award win: ‘Most Innovative Conversational Self-Service Solutions, 2020’ in Corporate Vision Magazine’s Corporate Excellence Awards. Conversational self-service tools have progressively become more mainstream in the nearly two decades of Creative Virtual’s history.

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The Northridge Group

APRIL 25, 2023

Fortunately, this scenario which is fraught with frustrating and time-consuming inefficiencies for the patient, provider and payer, can be greatly improved thanks to self-serve healthcare technologies that empower patients to retake control of their health journey. A recent survey by Northridge discovered that 49.3%

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TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Field tech support has already begun merging the digital and physical worlds by utilizing immersive technologies – such as augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) or virtual reality (VR) – to manipulate real-life objects. Self-Service. Technical Support in the age of Digital Twins. The evolution of digital twins.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Human-AI interaction, for years held up as the final frontier, is now giving way to autonomous AI-powered customer self service becoming a part of our daily experience. Why the crowdsourcing of expertise is at the core of deep learning-powered self-service tools. Milestones on the road to autonomous AI self service.

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TechSee

MAY 20, 2020

TechSee was honored as a pioneer in Computer Vision AI-powered Visual Assistance for customer service, based on our proprietary, multi-patented technology. TechSee provides automated visual guidance for customer self-service, contact center agents and field technicians.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

Voice Self-Service Has Become More Popular—and It’s About to Get Much Better. Either way, during the past four decades, touch-tone and/or speech-based IVRs have become the most common form of customer self-service, second only to the web. And IVA technology is the way to get there. By Donna Fluss.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 30, 2020

Companies with existing online support and easy-to-use self-service tools are at an obvious advantage. The graph below shows virtual agent traffic globally and across multiple industries for the period of 1 January 2019 through 12 April 2020. It’s also interesting to break down the virtual agent traffic by region.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

2020 Contact Center Investment Priorities. 2020 is looking to be an outstanding year for contact center investments. IVA, bots, RPA, AQM, self-service, WFM, etc.) Figure 1: Contact Center Technology Investment Priorities for 2020. Do you plan to implement any automation solutions (e.g., See Figure 1. .

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The State of the Contact Center 2020. Invest in self-service options. That’s why your business would do well to prepare self-service options for customers who have more common, less urgent questions. Get call-back technology. If you haven’t invested in the proper infrastructure, it’s time to get started.

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Contact Center Technology Trends to Watch in 2022. 2020-21 saw most contact centers make a shift to cloud contact center software. New technologies are flooding the market with an intent to help the call center and contact center industry address its myriad challenges. Contact Center Technology Trends in 2022.

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Eptica

MARCH 18, 2020

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Author: Tom Walmsley - Business Development Manager How Montblanc is using interactive self-service to empower customers and deliver a hand-crafted customer service. Published on: March 18, 2020. Share this page on: Tweet. Keep Your Customers Amazed.

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Mindtouch

AUGUST 21, 2019

The data doesn’t lie: in 2017, customer self-service almost surpassed human-assisted service for customer service interactions. By 2020, an estimated 85% of customers will choose self-service first. 85% of customers will choose self-service first by the year 2020.

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Aspect

OCTOBER 6, 2017

By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator, according to a recent Walker study. One key aspect of a great customer experience, that is more in demand today than ever before, is self-service. You can also find more information on self-service, here.

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Last quarter, Solvvy was named a Momentum Leader for Customer Self-Service by G2, and we’re delighted to announce that we’ve now been recognized as a leader a second time in a row ! “Being recognized as a leader in customer self-service not once, but twice in a row, is an honor,” said Mahesh Ram, CEO of Solvvy.

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The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our 5th 2021 customer experience trend highlights contactless and self-service experiences across industries. Before we dive into this topic, let’s take a moment to define what contactless and self-service mean to us. What is Self Service? To begin, let’s define self-service.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Gartner’s Customer Service and Support Leader poll estimates that live channels such as phone and live chat cost an average of $8.01 per contact, while self-service channels cost about $0.10 Call volumes increased further in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and driver licensing regional offices closed.

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CCNG

DECEMBER 16, 2020

First, companies found self service options inadequate – When COVID hit in March, many industries found their automated systems were inadequate to help handle call volumes. they too often found self service options inadequate in view of staffing challenges.

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OctopusTech

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

As the teen years have ended with great successions of technological advancements, 2020 has brought innovative hopes for customer support outsourcing. Forrester predicts that brands will spend $8 billion more on customer service agents in 2020 than the previous year. Intelligent Self-service AI tools.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 21, 2020

VISION 2020. We’ve entered the new decade with great momentum in technological innovation. DMG’s crystal ball shows an amazing outlook for the world of service and contact centers. DMG’s crystal ball shows an amazing outlook for the world of service and contact centers. By Donna Fluss. Like what you’re reading?

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Creative Virtual

MAY 14, 2020

Just as customers are increasingly adopting self-service channels, employees are also increasingly open to using self-help options. In particular, AI-enhanced virtual agents and chatbots empower employees to self-serve when and where they need help, reducing support costs while at the same time improving the employee experience.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Now: Ready yourself for the dawn of a new customer service decade, and read this timely and useful advice from the mouths of the experts themselves. Their 20/20 industry insights will propel your contact center to success in, fittingly, the year 2020.*. That won’t go away in 2020, and it will probably still be a requirement in 2050!

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Mindtouch

OCTOBER 23, 2017

A flood of technological innovation has improved support experiences to bolster renewal rates and customer loyalty. As such, there’s been a perfect storm of market forces driving growth in self-service support. Five primary trends are turning customer self-service into a multi-billion dollar market opportunity.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

trillion in spending — in the United States by 2020. The key to reaching this powerful demographic is by understanding that technology is central to their being. I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service. 5 Enabling technologies to reach Millennials.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. Digital-first servicing drives improved CX and brand engagement. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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3CLogic

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s no surprise then that leading companies are adopting voice self-service solutions in addition to their IVR solutions to not only manage call volume but provide a higher quality of customer service and improve call agent performance. The question is no longer should I adopt voice self-service for my contact center?

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Some 32% of organizations were running their contact centers with cloud technology at the end of 2020. Whether your contact center intends to go back to the office or stay remote, the acceleration of digital transformation projects and jumps to cloud technology will continue. Better collaboration tools are the future.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2021

Consider the result of the more than 1,000 consumers we surveyed for our 2020 Achieving Customer Amazement Survey. of them are willing to leave because of bad customer service. Companies were forced to adopt technologies that they would have used eventually, but not for three to five more years. We found a whopping 96.2%

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Solvvy

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The rise of AI may sound like a futuristic sci-fi movie plot, but when you take a closer look at the recent technology developments and predictions, the way we work and live will soon be upended in ways not seen since the Industrial Revolution. They also discussed key trends in the space and predictions for 2020.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In 2020, we will see messaging (SMS and Chat) overtake voice as the most popular support channel, especially on omnichannel platforms that can channel steer between various curated paths. The post Customer Support Trends and Predictions for 2020 appeared first on Customer Experience Blog by UJET.

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Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Each section has been carefully authored by Cisco leaders who are subject matter experts, to help guide those looking to understand what the key subjects are for consideration as the contact center has joined digital channels as the primary place of commerce and service in 2020 and beyond. Cisco Cloud Contact Center Solutions webpage.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 2020. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. You can read more here and download the full ebook, Conversational AI Trends 2020 , here.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

According to Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Customer Service & Support Technologies, Virtual Customer Assistants have just eked out beyond the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and into the “Trough of Disillusionment.” Speech recognition and natural language processing technologies have taken off in capabilities.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 12, 2021

A study by McKinsey Consulting in April 2020 indicated that digitally-enabled sales interactions were at least twice more important during the pandemic than they were in the pre-COVID-19 era. Technology solutions are the need of the hour. All communication must, instead, take place digitally––even self-service.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report.

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