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How To Scale Service Design: Technology

Kerry Bodine

By the end, I saw four major areas in which the discipline of service design needs to focus in order to be able to scale: technology, ubiquity, coaching, and delivery. In today’s post, I’ll talk about technology. Larry’s talk also made me think of technology like IBM Watson and Salesforce Service Cloud in a new way. Stay tuned!

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Are luxury brands swimming with or against the digital tide?

Clarivate

From virtual runway presentations to a ‘try-on’ experience using augmented reality (AR) technology, luxury brands are now braving the digital world. Our report also shows that luxury brands are adopting AR and virtual reality (VR) technologies, to bring virtual fashion shows and virtual showrooms to consumers.

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This is Digital, Episode 29: Economic Update: AI, the Workforce & 2024

West Monroe

These bills included significant subsidies aimed at fostering domestic production, especially in technologically advanced sectors like electric batteries and superconductors. In 2025, several tax-reducing policies from the Tax Reform Act of 2017-2018 are set to expire.

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5 Trends Set to Define Next Generation Customer Experience in 2019

TechSee

If 2018 was a year when customer experience professionals came under intense pressure to map out tangible results from heavy investment, 2019 is shaping up to be the year when next generation customer experience will deliver on the promise of a wide range of new technologies. Three key drivers are at the core of this.

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Robots in Unexpected Places – Where Will We See Them Next?

Oracle

billion by 2025. In 2018, Alibaba opened a restaurant called Robot.he, where customers can use an app to book a table, order their food, and pay, while robots move on tracks in the restaurant, fulfilling orders. Are robots taking over? If so, it might not necessarily be a bad thing. Where will they pop up next? Agriculture.

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How retailers and “payviders” are disrupting U.S. healthcare in 2024

Clarivate

In 2024, watch as the global trendsetter brings to bear its technological expertise combined with a captive Prime membership, brand recognition, and national employer buy-in to re-envision healthcare that truly works around the patient. Humana is also on track to add 30 to 50 new senior-focused primary-care centers each year through 2025.

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Boosting Your Customer Support: Human-Operated Live Chat vs Chatbots

Kayako

As an increasing number of online businesses have started getting real value from chat bots, the use of this technology has skyrocketed amongst many companies in recent years. billion in 2025. However, the 2018 State of Chatbots report found quite the opposite (we’ll talk about this in detail in the next section).

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