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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

Technology replacing humans. Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing. In general, technology is augmenting —not replacing — the employee. That’s what we all fear. Yet bank employees did not disappear with the advent of the ATM.

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Be Prepared – Will Your Robotic Experience Work For You?

Beyond Philosophy

It’s not the best customer experience, but if you travel often, you learn to live with it. Now, though, a handful of hotels are using robots to ease this pain point. But taken too far, a robot threatens to destroy the thing that makes a small hotel appealing in the first place. The Robot Experience. So you wait.

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Guest Blog: Instant Customer Service – Just Add Text Message

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ford Blakely about text messaging which can provide that instant, convenient and low-friction customer experience that delivers delight. Let’s face it, customer service is the lifeline of any company. Let’s face it, customer service is the lifeline of any company.

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The Big Fail: Why Are You Not Listening to the ‘Voice of Your Product’?

Beyond Philosophy

Proactive is a key word for me for the future of experiences and customer strategy. Anticipating the needs of your customers is going to be the next level of exceeding their expectations. However, to be proactive, you need to add a new voice into the mix with the “Voice of the Customer (VoC).”

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The Remarkable Truth about (the Lack of) Workplace Privacy

Beyond Philosophy

It would be highly unusual for a company that provides the excellent Customer Experience that Amazon does to have such a terrible work environment for those people that offer that excellent experience. It is clear that Amazon sees value in automation and intends to have many human-free Customer Experiences.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Contact Center Agents?

UJET

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. This is a guest post by Donna Fluss, the president of DMG Consulting LLC.

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Is Employee Experience just a Fad or is it really the Future of Work?

Beyond Philosophy

You must focus on your employees if you want a great experience that delivers service excellence. I got it from a book I read twenty-five years ago called The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value by James L. Unless, of course, we are replacing our teams with robots.