ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Ways to Scale up Convenient CX for Modern Customers by NICE (NICE) The easier things are for your customers, the better they are for your organization. It’s time to start driving better customer experiences today.

Customer Service 202

Customer Service B2B B2C Advertising 202

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Top Takeaways: Self-service is becoming more than just enabling customers to attempt to resolve their own issues. The lockdown has changed our customers’ perspective on how they want to spend their time. The lockdown has changed our customers’ perspective on how they want to spend their time.

Personalization 229

Personalization Self service Chatbots Customer Support 229

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) Today, your customers compare you to every customer experience they have with every other brand. It’s grown to include all of the customer experiences your customer has every day.

Customer Service 202

Customer Service Government Customer centricity Customer Experience 202

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 4, 2024

I appreciate the opportunity to look back upon what has happened and what I learned from it. This year is about artificial intelligence (AI). As we see it coming, I know a lot of organizations diving into AI integrations. However, few had a strategy or even a clue about how to leverage the Web.

Customer centricity 244

Customer centricity Morale Finance Education 244

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To that end, Tom Martin , CEO at Glance has submitted one, and here’s what he had to say: Let me begin with my gratitude, thanking Tom for his exciting viewpoint. He had a lot of interesting insights in terms of the interface between AI and human employees. However, I disagree; fewer people work in Customer Experience these days.

Customer Experience 222

Customer Experience Chatbots Customer centricity Education 222

CCNG

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been explored for many decades it was the recent release of ChatGPT by OpenAI that really caught the public imagination. Finally, most people could see and easily experiment with AI in a way that had not been possible before. This is how many customer service systems are designed today.

Customer Service 195

Customer Service Coaching Chatbots Contact Center 195

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. It didn’t.

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Self service Analytics Personalization Consulting 222

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each of us has three things we learned in the past year that we think can help all of us moving forward into 2024. Moreover, it’s essential to take note if no changes have occurred. Sometimes what we learned was personal, but it has implications for the business world. Reflection is a key part of the growth process.

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Consulting Consulting Customer centricity Education 222

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 4 Reasons Why Your Customer Service Is About to Get a Whole Lot Better in 2024 by Mike Murchison (Entrepreneur) When it comes to AI and customer service, we’re going to see a virtuous cycle in 2024.

Customer Service 155

Customer Service Customer advocacy Average Handle Time Customer centricity 155

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service versus Customer Experience: Master both! My Comment: I’ve written about the difference between customer service and customer experience in the past. It’s not a department.

Customer Service 155

Customer Service Gamification Customer retention Customer Experience 155

The Northridge Group

APRIL 15, 2024

In our 3-part series: People, Process, & Technology — and the Intersection of AI, we have asked industry leaders in technology, people and process management to explain what AI is, what it isn’t, and how it can be a benefit (and a curse) in each area. Part 2: AI and Business Processes: How can it help?

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Technology Brand ambassadors Contact Center Multichannel 122

ShepHyken

MAY 10, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. Here are eight different ways to streamline your customer support. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 387

Customer Service Customer Support Surveys Self service 387

ShepHyken

JULY 24, 2023

Top Takeaways: Customers have so many options and want to get the best out of the money they spend. Since there are many options for companies offering more or less the same services, customer support becomes the differentiator. It comes down to how easy it is to communicate with a business and how delightful the experience is.

Customer Experience 156

Customer Experience Chatbots Contact Center Customer Support 156

TechSee

MARCH 7, 2023

As part of our Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day initiatives, we asked our own TechSee Super Women to highlight some of the amazing leaders in the technology, service, and support industries who inspire them, have helped grow their careers, or simply deserve to be celebrated for being awesome.

Chief Customer Officer 207

Chief Customer Officer Contact Center Telecommunications Finance 207

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). That’s where customer experience platforms come in.

Feedback 83

Feedback Consulting Consulting Enterprise 83

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

COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

The challenge of keeping pace with changing customer expectations looms large. Technological advancements, notably artificial intelligence (AI), fuel customer experience transformation. Companies worldwide are grappling with leveraging technology to enhance the overall customer experience (CX).

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Gamification Benchmark Chatbots 89

TechSee

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry events and news coverage are full of companies offering Generative AI , Conversational AI, chatbots, and AI Agents. As a result, it can be very challenging to assess Conversational AI providers. Chatbots are typically rule-based systems that follow predefined scripts to interact with customers.

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Chatbots Enterprise Scripts Virtual Agent 124

Fonolo

JANUARY 17, 2023

If there’s one thing managers need to understand about digital transformation, it’s how artificial intelligence is changing CX in the contact center. The cost savings AI offers makes the move to more automation inevitable. It’s clear that AI’s impact on customer care and CX will be profound. Friendly service.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Chatbots Average Handle Time 154

Outsource Consultants

JULY 25, 2023

As artificial intelligence has become a driving force for change in various industries, the call center industry is no exception. With its ability to mimic human intelligence and process vast amounts of data, AI is transforming the way call centers operate. This AI creates an output based on the information put into it.

Call Center 128

Call Center Interactive Voice Response Technology Chatbots 128

AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 9, 2024

In this post, we discuss two new features of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock specific to the RetrieveAndGenerate API: configuring the maximum number of results and creating custom prompts with a knowledge base prompt template. Additionally, you can add custom instructions and examples tailored to your specific workflows.

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APIs Engineering Healthcare Education 118

C3Centricity

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our daily lives and has revolutionized how we interact with technology and businesses. This post discusses how to use AI to enhance customer experience with another AI, authentic interactions.

Chatbots 90

Chatbots Technology Customer Service Customer Experience 90

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

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

Interactions

APRIL 16, 2024

How Can the Bar be Raised to Surpass Customer Expectations? A dedication to understanding your customers ensures that every interaction is personalized and purposeful, alleviating the pain of lengthy wait times and ensuring each conversation is met with effective, personalized assistance.

Customer Care 62

Customer Care Self service Metrics Interactive Voice Response 62

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Many customers, including those in creative advertising, media and entertainment, ecommerce, and fashion, often need to change the background in a large number of images. Step Functions allows you to create an automated workflow that seamlessly connects with Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services.

APIs 121

APIs Entertainment Construction Advertising 121

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.

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Benchmark Finance Engineering Enterprise 135

AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In this post, we share how Axfood, a large Swedish food retailer, improved operations and scalability of their existing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) operations by prototyping in close collaboration with AWS experts and using Amazon SageMaker. This is a guest post written by Axfood AB.

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Best practices Engineering Scripts Analytics 116

CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

AI-powered chatbots have made significant progress in customer service over the years. Although digital customer service solutions can be quick and efficient, they often offer generic and automated responses that are not personalised to individual customers.

Customer Service 98

Customer Service Chatbots Technology Sales 98

ChurnZero

APRIL 1, 2024

AI is changing just about everything within the SaaS and technology space. What was once time-consuming and tedious is becoming streamlined and automated, with customer success teams better able to manage their customers proactively. AI is here to stay and it will continue to make the lives of CSMs easier as it matures.

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Journey mapping Feedback SaaS Surveys 76

Fonolo

JANUARY 12, 2023

Change seems to happen slowly and then all at once. The same holds when considering how artificial intelligence is changing the contact center. . You probably know at least a bit about AI and automation. They are also popular advancements in automation that employ varying degrees of AI.

Contact Center 138

Contact Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution Contact center software 138

AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications.

Best practices 126

Best practices Government Engineering Accountability 126

AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more.

APIs 116

APIs Healthcare Scripts Enterprise 116

AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by AWS that offers developers access to foundation models (FMs) and the tools to customize them for specific applications. It allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs through an API, without managing infrastructure.

APIs 127

APIs Big data Accountability Enterprise 127

AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 18, 2024

Check out the following demo to see how it works. In this post, we show you how to use LMA with Amazon Transcribe , Amazon Bedrock , and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. When you’re done, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it! You can also create your own custom prompts and corresponding options.

APIs 112

APIs Accountability Analytics Entertainment 112

AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to improve and transform many aspects of society. In 2023, the pace of adoption of AI technologies has accelerated further with the development of powerful foundation models (FMs) and a resulting advancement in generative AI capabilities.

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industry standards Engineering Enterprise Government 112