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How to Think about Chatbots in a Big Picture Kinda Way

Fonolo

What does the future hold for customer service? A common theme in answer to this question is, “Improvements in automation and self-service will erode the importance for call centers.” It also gets strengthened by the marketing efforts of all the vendors selling self-serve technology. “A You need the chatbot to: 1.

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4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year

Fonolo

Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Will the AI / chatbot hype start to live up to its promise? Their “Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service” was included in our last report round-up post.)

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Computer Vision in the Call Center – The New CX Frontier

TechSee

With AI, call centers are equipped with a wide range of voice analytics, enabling recognition of customer, accent, gender, and emotion, as well as powering conversational IVRs and voice based virtual assistants. Computer vision also enables gradual automation towards full self service with device recognition and augmentation.

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Why Listening is a Key to Empathy in Customer Experiences

Natalie Petouhof

“There is a sort of corporate amnesia where who you were at the start of the journey, and where you’ve been, is completely forgotten,” noted Charlie Godfrey, Senior Director at Genesys in “The business case for empathy” white paper. Simply put, listening is the foundation for understanding, which should lead to action.

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Time is of the Essence: Keep customers waiting at your peril

Fonolo

Whether that’s with smarter self-service options like chatbots and visual IVRs, or with better decision-making tools to help agents get to the right solution faster, companies are relying on AI and smart automation to fill the gap. This white paper explores key areas that are sure to shake up the industry.

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How to Eliminate Hold Time in Your Call Center

Fonolo

This will typically include the time a caller was waiting and any time the phone is ringing, but not the time it takes a caller to navigate the IVR. As mentioned, it doesn’t typically include the time a customer spends going through the IVR tree (if you have one). Poor IVR or hold procedure.

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Contact Center Customer Experience Best Practices

Callminer

As your customers demand to address less complex issues with self-service , for example, you should adopt self-service analytics using business intelligence to analyze self-service interactions via interactive voice response (IVR), self-service websites, and chatbots.