ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

However, there are enough examples that prove that companies can analyze the data to categorize it, find patterns and provide personalized recommendations to their customers. Self-service. Yura Filimonov is captivated by the potential of AI technology and he wrote a pragmatic guide to using AI in contact centers.

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VocalCom

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At one time, self-service meant forcing customers to perform tasks on their own without the information and support they needed. Today, savvy companies offer self-service as a means of empowering customers to help themselves with confidence and minimal effort. Integrate self-service with your omnichannel strategy.

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Aspect

JUNE 4, 2020

To follow the same path as Rumi — at least in a business sense — contact center leaders must have a plan that enables them to rapidly respond and adapt to change. Business Continuity in the Contact Center. The most recent and relevant example of such sudden changes impacting organizations is the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cisco - Contact Center

APRIL 27, 2020

Today customers want to be independent, they want access to self-serve solutions , they do not like to be sold things, they love to buy solutions to their problems and needs, thus a key to delivering amazing customer experience is to quickly resolve a customer’s problem – ideally on the first contact, even better if through self-services.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row.

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2021

It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. Here are three examples to illustrate. AI Puts You Ahead of the Curve.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work. Agents obviously value bright contact centers and great salaries, but their daily happiness hinges far more greatly on systems and processes. As an example, evaluate abandonment within your web self-service channels.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. AI-Enabled Self Service (34.8% Back office support. Accessible NOW!

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The title of this blog post is an important question that many executives are asking. In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. The post Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Contact Center Agents?

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 14, 2019

AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center. This week I will be speaking at UC Expo about the role that artificial intelligence is playing in advancing contact center productivity and efficiency, and in particular how this is benefiting the agent and customer experience. AI = chat bots.

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 5, 2021

As momentum continues to build for cloud adoption in the contact center space, the business case for supporting this decision becomes clear. These are a few specific examples of how cloud benefits the contact center and any one of these is sufficient to justify the investment.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2024

Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software The term ‘UCaaS’ has been in the modern telephony lexicon for quite some time now. It’s the acronym for Unified Communications as a Service. That’s where sophisticated UCaaS contact center software can be of immense use.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . There are more customer experience management blogs and articles than ever before — not to mention the growing libraries of video and interactive content. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020.

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Mindtouch

MARCH 13, 2019

That explains why the majority of people choose self-service first. Moving through the five layers of self-service. The starting points for these customer self-service journeys are as infinite as the amount of available information. One might decide they need a new dishwasher, for example.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. Those first three are what we’d expect. Data and algorithms can only do so much.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

It is painful, for example, to wait without knowing why or for how long. It allows them to feel like they can do something with the service they received, whether it was good or bad. Self-service options let the customer take care of themselves without assistance. Humans have a driving need to know why.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The title of this blog post is an important question that many executives are asking. In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. The post Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Contact Center Agents?

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 16, 2021

This blog post was co-authored by Kathy Sobus (Senior Director, Customer Experience Strategy, ConvergeOne) and LumenVox. When it comes to contact center authentication, callers overwhelmingly prefer voice biometrics to knowledge-based security questions. Anxiety surrounding identity theft is high, and justifiably so.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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bold360 Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Customer self-service (CSS) is a win-win for all involved in today’s uncertain business landscape, one where remote work and digital-first interactions have become the “new normal.”. Customers increasingly prefer using self-service tools: CEB (now Gartner) reports that 81% of consumers try to self-serve before calling a contact center.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 27, 2020

Their survey of 362 firms found that although 80% of the firms believed that they delivered a “superior service” only 8% of the firm’s customers believed that. In our own Cisco survey of 700 contact center executives across 7 countries, 79% agreed that customer experience has a significant impact on business results.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. A typical example would be to use that extracted insight to interface with an associated knowledge base and then recommend a process, script, or document to help deal with the situation or need at hand.

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bold360 Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We heard multiple takes on how various approaches to self-service can fuel that leftward shift—most notably the use of AI in knowledge management. Employees want more and better self-service knowledge. So it’s not surprising that 68% of employees say they want user-facing knowledge (self-help) at work.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In the contact center, it isn’t often that a new category of technology emerges. The emergence as a category indicates these new solutions are here to stay and are as integral to service delivery as the PBX or workforce management software. AI-enhanced Self-Service Examples. Why SmartAction?

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VocalCom

APRIL 29, 2019

When designing great customer experiences, every brand should think about its self-service. Gartner states that 81% of customers attempt to find solutions on their own before contacting an agent. Here are five rules for creating self-service options that truly benefit your customers. Train your chatbots regularly.

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

However, finding and training staff to handle your customer service isn’t the easiest (or cheapest) task. . This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Mindtouch

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. The most striking evidence of the self-service trend is consumer preferences. Human Preference.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

In this article, we delve into the intricacies of CXA, explore its benefits, showcase examples, and outline best practices for implementation. CXA stands for Customer Experience Automation, a strategic approach that integrates automation tools and software within call centers to enhance the customer journey.

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Noble Systems

MAY 17, 2021

In the second Q&A of this blog series, we answered questions about Customer Engagement and the CX. According to a recent Forbes report: “Many, in fact, see call centers as the new sandbox for AI-powered customer experience—with an array of new and emerging tools that can boost retention, loyalty, and, ultimately, revenue and profit.”.

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Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. You should also check out, 4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year.).

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Avaya

JUNE 26, 2019

As the white-hot core of customer experience, the contact center needs to fundamentally evolve for organizations to remain competitive in an increasingly digital world. What does this “new contact center” look like? But what kind of changes are we talking about? million a year in lost productivity).

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, some experts assert that AI is opinions written in code. Good Examples of Organizations That Get It. Another example of an organization using AI well was a mortgage company in the UK that used a model that predicted which contact center agent might be the best match for an incoming customer.

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SmartAction

APRIL 15, 2019

Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Delivery over the cloud has made integration with existing contact center systems easier and more seamless, as well. Any self-service implementation project starts by leveraging this data.

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Mindtouch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This is due, in part, to the growing number online customer self-service experiences powered by one or both of these technologies. To help clear the air, here’s a closer look at chatbots and AI and their close ties to customer self-service. AI, chatbots, and self-service. A brief introduction to AI.

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Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2020

Every contact center has a universal goal: to provide exceptional customer service. As we continue to social distance, self isolate and get used to a new normal, it’s more important than ever for contact centers to focus on their overall strategy. But doing so isn’t always that simple. CX Strategy.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The most obvious example of a channel would be Voice, or calls placed to a call center or contact center to be answered by the next available agent, courtesy of call center software. An organization offering multiple customer channels is often referred to as having a “multichannel” contact center.

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