Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This year has been the year of AI. We hosted the Global Customer Service Experience Director of Alvarez & Marsal Alex Mead ( alexmead@sky.com ) recently to talk about it, and I wanted to share what we discussed here with all of you, too. Mead says that he believes AI will reduce customer effort in experiences.

Airlines 222

Airlines Self service Call Center Personalization 222

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This week we feature an article by Rahul Varshneya whos writes about how technology innovations are continuously improving the customer experience. This Maya Angelou quote fits perfectly when talking about the factors responsible for positive brand customer service. Customer experience has not been left behind.

Technology 330

Technology Customer Experience Complaint resolution Gamification 330

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you ready for AI? Author, speaker, consultant, and The Agile Brand podcast host Greg Kihlstrom , ( www.gregkihlstrom.com ) Principal Chief Strategies for GK5A, joined us on a recent podcast to discuss what it takes to be prepared to implement AI and improve your customer experience. Some firms are.

Self service 222

Self service Analytics Personalization Consulting 222

Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . When we look back at the customer support industry in 2010, we see a very different beast to the one we work in today. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020. Shep Hyken.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Call Center 136

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated. Get Straight to the Point.

Interactive Voice Response 236

Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Self service Contact Center 236

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. Most AI-based platforms or processes leverage a finite and discrete data set from which to extrapolate ‘understanding’.

Scripts 95

Scripts Interactive Voice Response Analytics Contact Center 95

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 – Finds What’s Been Overlooked. Back office support.

Self service 66

Self service Contact Center Chatbots Average Handle Time 66

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Vince Jeffs, examines the hot topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s impact on the customer experience. I am reading articles every week about AI and find it’s impact fascinating. And sure, I too enjoy dreaming about AI as well.

Customer Experience 216

Customer Experience Telecommunications Technology Banking 216

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 4, 2024

This year is about artificial intelligence (AI). As we see it coming, I know a lot of organizations diving into AI integrations. The same thing is happening with AI. Different departments within an organization are looking for ways to integrate AI, but they aren’t talking to each other.

Customer centricity 244

Customer centricity Morale Finance Education 244

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

He had a lot of interesting insights in terms of the interface between AI and human employees. As we develop AI into our systems, we will need to determine what AI will replace, what it will augment, and what it will add. Another thing Tom said was that people use employees now to help in the Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 222

Customer Experience Chatbots Customer centricity Education 222

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Complacency is not an option as agents, supervisors and contact center managers are forced to become more strategic, taking on increasingly critical new responsibilities to deliver engaging customer experiences. Contact centers have to adapt and continuously evolve in order to meet customer expectations.

Contact Center 122

Contact Center Self service Analytics Banking 122

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

Call Center 105

Call Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 105

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This week we feature an article by Sawaram Suthar writes about how live chat can simplify the customer journey. Always remember that the customer just want to be taken care of, regardless of how you go about it. – Shep Hyken. Businesses often face multiple challenges with respect to how to simplify the customer journey.

Transportation 185

Transportation Analytics Banking Metrics 185

NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

AI-based call centers are revolutionizing how businesses interact with their customers. The customer service you provide will either make or break your brand. From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness.

Call Center 104

Call Center Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 104

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Video outperforms all other communications methods when agents and customers need to quickly resolve an issue. This blog will provide some insight into the benefits that can be extracted from video along with how. Blog #2 of 4: It’s NOT just another channel.

Contact Center 92

Contact Center Technology Customer centricity Analytics 92

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listen to the podcast: Bob Black, one of our podcast listeners, loves our ideas about evoking specific customer emotions. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. Most people agree that customer emotions are essential to an experience. Both are negative emotions.

Customer emotions 222

Customer emotions Call Center Customer Experience Customer Support 222

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. How AI-Enabled Super-Agents Improve CX. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better.

Self service 76

Self service Contact Center Benchmark Chatbots 76

ShepHyken

JUNE 30, 2017

This week we feature an article by Shaista Haque who writes about the top technology trends of 2017 that she believes will disrupt customer experience benchmarks. What comes to your mind when I talk about businesses revolutionizing their technology experience? Shep Hyken.

Government 223

Government Technology Benchmark call center software 223

Zappix

MAY 1, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central component in the digital landscape, transforming how businesses and consumers interact. From personalized recommendations to automated customer service, AI is reshaping digital engagement in innovative and transformative ways.

Chatbots 52

Chatbots Advertising Wait times Analytics 52

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 4, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs). It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications.

Benchmark 135

Benchmark Finance Engineering Enterprise 135

Comm100

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Integrating chatbots powered by AI into your business is a fantastic way to keep one step ahead of your competitors and provide superior customer service. It also improves the level of interaction between your company and its customers. Natural Language Processing. Third-party integrations.

Chatbots 63

Chatbots Abandon rate CRM Education 63

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). If you’re reading this blog post, you are probably one of them.

Feedback 83

Feedback Consulting Consulting Enterprise 83

ShepHyken

JULY 21, 2017

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills about how to use live chat agents properly in order to delight your customers. This means that you should know how to hire live chat agents who are going to delight your customers. If he or she lacks any, they might not be the best choice for your customer support team.

Customer Support 230

Customer Support Chatbots Personalization Education 230

Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Constant Learning Improves AI Recommendations. Blog #3 of 4 With context, AI seeks to improve more quickly than ever. Analyzing all feedback via AI. It’s all in the approach and how the data is analyzed. This is foundational to understanding causality.

First call resolution 52

First call resolution Feedback Enterprise Contact Center 52

Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Addressing Customer Needs.

Self service 79

Self service Contact Center Chatbots First call resolution 79

Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To drive business, attract new clients, and retain existing ones, financial institutions must invest in improving their customer experience. Enhancing your customer experience is important not just because it will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction but because customers also expect it.

Customer Experience 80

Customer Experience Brand ambassadors Self service Chatbots 80

Eptica

JANUARY 9, 2019

Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 Author: Anne-Claire Bellec - Marketing Director Reviewing 2018 – our top 10 blog posts from the year. At the Eptica blog we’ve looked at all of our posts from 2018 and come up with a top 10 of the most popular and topical, based on the number of views, comments and general feedback.

Average Handle Time 89

Average Handle Time Best practices Surveys Chatbots 89

Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

AI, Teams UC and Video. . Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! Customer First” drives success. Customer service has become the top business priority. Today, customer satisfaction is the top business priority, but successful companies cite it as their 1 priority. Better Together to Optimize CX. . New approach?

Contact Center 60

Contact Center Scripts Cloud contact Technology 60

CustomerSuccessBox

MAY 18, 2022

So has the customer success industry and the content around the space! Searching for blogs in the arena is getting accessible slowly and it’s time you leverage the essential knowledge these blogs have to offer, to flourish! Here is the list of 10 Customer Success blogs to follow and save in your digital library in 2022!

SaaS 52

SaaS Upselling Education Customer retention 52

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Consulting 251

Comm100

MARCH 14, 2024

Chatbots have become a ubiquitous part of customer service and support. As businesses strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of their customers, the adoption of chatbots has emerged as an essential move to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.

Chatbots 91

Chatbots Customer Service Personalization Feedback 91

Comm100

MAY 25, 2022

Further social upheavals amongst workers and customer expectations have also occurred. Ultimately, customer service and contact centers have not been immune to these changes. Then we’ll analyze how your organization can respond to these changes and the ways in which technology can benefit your ability to serve customers.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response outsourcing 52

Comm100

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know that the world of customer service and support is constantly on the move. This blog will delve into the top four customer service trends that are expected to take center stage in 2024. It’s worth noting that these AI advancements do pose challenges too.

Customer Service 81

Customer Service Chatbots APIs Government 81

AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

BigBasket serves over 10 million customers. Customer challenges Today, most supermarkets and physical stores in India provide manual checkout at the checkout counter. Customer challenges Today, most supermarkets and physical stores in India provide manual checkout at the checkout counter.

Engineering 102

Engineering Gamification Scripts Big data 102

Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Complacency is not an option as agents, supervisors and contact center managers are forced to become more strategic, taking on increasingly critical new responsibilities to deliver engaging customer experiences. Contact centers have to adapt and continuously evolve in order to meet customer expectations.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self service Analytics Banking 52

Lumoa

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Have you ever thought about how some businesses manage to analyze thousands of customer reviews and feedback quickly? The secret lies in the capabilities of AI and its proficiency in conducting sentiment analysis. Customer feedback is a precious resource for understanding what’s effective and what needs improvement.

Feedback 83

Feedback Banking Chatbots Automotive 83

24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The integration of technology in health tech is changing the way medical professionals deliver care and reshaping the overall patient experience. Technology-driven solutions that improve interactions for both patients and healthcare workers remain top-of-mind in 2024.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Consulting Consulting Technology 52