DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2022

Give Customers What They Want: Great Self-Service. Delivering an outstanding customer experience (CX) is a top goal for companies, as it is an essential and measurable differentiator between otherwise commoditized products and services. Donna Fluss. View this article on the publisher’s website. & Solving the Problem.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 28, 2020

Do you have a chatbot or virtual agent on your roadmap? Do you need to upgrade a poor performing self-service tool? Are you curious about successful use cases for AI-enhanced virtual agents? Questions to ask when selecting a chatbot or virtual agent solution. Can’t attend the live event?

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 10, 2020

Chatbots, smart help, virtual assistants, virtual agents, conversational AI – there are lots of names for this automated, self-service technology being used today. You want to ask: How can I ensure my chatbot or virtual agent is: Providing accurate and personalised information?

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

Voice Self-Service Has Become More Popular—and It’s About to Get Much Better. Some might say adoption grew because live agent support wasn’t much better and that using an IVR didn’t require waiting on hold, so it became a convenient habit. And IVA technology is the way to get there. By Donna Fluss. Email Address *.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2020

With physical offices and locations closed, many are struggling with the influx of customer questions to their contact centres – an issue that may be compounded by the sudden need to support agents working from home. Organisations with an existing self-service solution have a definite advantage.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 2, 2020

Advancements over the past several years in conversational AI technologies, including chatbots and virtual agents, have made them a go-to solution for providing cost-effective and easy-to-use support on digital channels. There are lots of published statistics and success stories that prove the business value of this technology.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

IVAs Can Remake the Self-Service Landscape. A remarkable thing is happening in the realm of customer service: After years of rejecting self-service, customers are changing their tune. The Latest (and Greatest) in Self-Service: IVAs. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 7, 2020

In Part 1 of this series , I talked about the immense pressure organisations are under to deliver quality service and support over digital channels during this period of coronavirus-related quarantines, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Agents have access to a virtual agent that understands questions asked in natural language.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2019

IVA Is the Future of Voice Self-Service. For customers and, increasingly, employees, IVAs can automate routine tasks and can process and personalize the handling of interactions in most self-service channels. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. Revolutionizing IVRs. Email Address *.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Frictionless experiences with conversational AI are not created by accident, but meticulously crafted by expert designers who know exactly how humans interact best with machines. Fabletics leverages a Virtual Agent to interact with their customers every time you call them. Keep it Conversational. But many should be.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Every industry has best practices – guidelines, methods or techniques accepted as the most efficient and effective way to accomplish a desired result. Sometimes when something new comes along or starts to get industry attention, the hype can make it easy to confuse jumping on the bandwagon with following proven best practice.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Gartner’s newest customer service report “Delivering Relevant Content and Knowledge to Customers Is Key to Great Customer Service” focuses on just these dilemmas. According to Gartner, customer service leaders should focus on these seven knowledge management best practices for improved customer service.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Electrolux, the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world who sells under a variety of brand names worldwide like Frigidaire and AEG, made the transformation to AI-powered virtual agents six months ago to automate more in their contact center. 14% of callers request a live agent transfer. 9% of callers hang up.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

Automatic forecasting takes the huge volumes of data collected daily by contact centers and analyzes it all to reveal trends and draw conclusions about emerging best practices. Why agents are embracing the change. Rejecting doomsday predictions that robots will take their jobs, many agents are embracing AI technology.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This allows Sophie AI’s applications to naturally and organically assist agents, engineers, and customers in their context, using your best practices and operating procedures to guide them to full resolution. Furthermore, Sophie AI is built on state-of-the-art LLM management and optimization technology.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

Automatic forecasting takes the huge volumes of data collected daily by contact centers and analyzes it all to reveal trends and draw conclusions about emerging best practices. Rejecting doomsday predictions that robots will take their jobs, many agents are embracing AI technology. Smarter Agents. Specialization.

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SmartAction

MAY 9, 2019

This is the fourth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Read Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 first!

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2017

These 8 Technologies Are Transforming the Contact Center. Companies are striving to understand customer needs, engage Millennial customers and employees, increase the use of self-service tools, improve service quality while reducing costs, simplify operating environments, and reduce fraud, and they’re looking to vendors for help.

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OctopusTech

AUGUST 10, 2022

Call center technologies are developing rapidly in this ever-growing digital era. Various call center technology trends such as Artificial intelligence, virtual agents, and cloud communications are all part of the future of call centers. But which technology can enhance and support your call center?

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

This is the fifth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Use this guide to automate your contact center and Customer Experience (CX) with AI self-service in voice, chat, and text. What does a best-of-breed CX team look like?

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s explore this growing technology by understanding what it truly is, reviewing some examples of its applications, diving into its inner workings, and highlighting the associated benefits and challenges businesses and contact centers should consider. Chatbots and virtual agents may provide irrelevant or inaccurate responses.

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3CLogic

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consequently, your self-service channels don’t have access to the information needed to answer incoming inquiries, forcing customers to connect with a live agent to whom they need to restate their identity and reason for calling. It all comes down to implementing always-on, intelligent self-service.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Therefore, convenient and patient-centered experiences are required to meet expectations, like self-service scheduling, billing, and appointment reminders. . With a patient-centric approach, technology is required to support quality experiences at scale. Improve Agent Productivity & Engagement.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 22, 2020

Today I’m proud to be sharing Creative Virtual’s introduction of the Neutrino release of V-Person , our innovative virtual agent and chatbot technology. When I first founded Creative Virtual in late 2003, chatbot and virtual agent technology was still very new in the customer service space.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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Interactions

MAY 14, 2020

One interesting shift from pre-pandemic to the new normal will certainly be people’s comfort with using technology in their personal and business lives. You can be the most secure company in the world, but if your consumers don’t know about your security, they won’t feel comfortable using your technology. Contact Center Challenges.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, coupled with consumer partiality for digital channels, are driving interest in and adoption of intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) and a related technology, robotic process automation (RPA), or “bots.” IVA Best Practices . Email Address *. Final Thoughts on IVAs.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 22, 2019

I first started working in the world of virtual agents in 2000 and, even though the technology was very much in its infancy at the time, saw huge potential for innovation and growth in the industry. is the lack of understanding within organisations about deploying these solutions. You can read more in their independent report.

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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here’s everything you need to know about these solutions, including how they work and the technology that allows them to deliver relevant and accurate information, simulate human conversations, and provide value to your operation. 24/7 service: Unlike employees, chatbots are available around the clock every day, all year long.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s hard to find anyone involved with the chatbot and virtual agent industry who hasn’t heard the cautionary tale of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay. The industry suddenly became saturated with both false promises about the capabilities of the technology and a plethora of new start-ups claiming to have AI-powered customer service bots.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

DMG’s 14 th annual report on the contact center workforce management (WFM) sector delivers a comprehensive analysis of the vendors, products, pricing and best practices for this IT sector. The Report examines the business, market and technology trends and challenges confronting contact centers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 30, 2019

Telecommunications company Telstra was in the news when their virtual agent Codi, a joint project with IBM and LivePerson, was branded a ‘virtual moron-idiot’ by customers. We know intimately how well this technology can work for enterprises and don’t want them to continue to miss out on those benefits. we want to help.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Enterprises are taking steps to revamp their service organizations, allowing customers to interact via enhanced self-service and digital channels, in addition to voice. Consumers have been showing a preference for using self-service for a number of years,” said Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Organisations that want to empower customers to self-serve, and ensure they have a positive experience while doing so, need to offer those tools to customers themselves. While self-service is increasingly imperative to a customer’s experience, that doesn’t mean that the one-on-one human interaction is no longer important.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This one-of-a-kind report analyzes and explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to transform the customer experience (CX), drive a new era in servicing, and significantly improve the performance of contact centers. To learn more about the report, read the full abstract , including the table of contents.

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