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Customer Experience 2017 Reality Check – Evolution or Revolution?

ijgolding

This post is part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s Blog Carnival celebrating customer experience. It’s part of a broader celebration of Customer Experience Day 2017. Are organisations really changing the way they treat customers and employees? Or even 1997?

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The Gig Economy is Paving the Way for Agile Customer Service

TechSee

gigs will surpass the permanent workforce by 2027, growing 40% by 2027 to reach 86 million. Economic and logistical challenges have resulted in businesses turning to the gig economy to support and scale their customer service and sales efforts while lowering their fixed costs and in-house overhead. The rise of remote work .

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Guest Post: Understanding Digital Customer Experience in Retail Industry

ShepHyken

He has experience across the Contact Center spanning Hiring, Training, Quality, Workforce Management, and Performance Management. He shares how retailers can understand the digital customer experience in the retail world. An experience through the customer’s buying journey is quite crucial and must be addressed by the retailers.

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Chatbots: Empowering Customer Service Amid Turbulent Times

Team Support

Chatbots are fast becoming part of the digital core of tech tools that companies utilize as a secret weapon to increase their competitive advantage in the customer service arena. Today’s chatbots are more focused on enhancing the customer experience by offering immediate answers to common challenges.

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6 Pain Points Faced by Gig Customer Service and How Vision Can Solve Them

TechSee

What is Gig Customer Service? This gig-based economic format has spread to the customer service function – known as GigCX – where freelance customer support agents are sourced to perform on a per-task basis. gigs will surpass the permanent workforce by 2027, growing 40% by 2027 to reach 86 million.

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3 Emerging Ecommerce Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2021

Oracle

Ecommerce has assumed an even larger role over the past year as the effects of the global pandemic have pushed almost every customer-facing business into the online world. With this in mind, it’s not surprising that 2021 promises to be a pivotal year for ecommerce. What’s driving this trend for 2021? AI adds a human element.

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Change on the horizon: The evolving IP legal profession

Clarivate

Customer needs are evolving. Changing expectations will undoubtedly influence the current norms of IP law and practice, forcing the industry to reimagine the roles of people, process, data and technology in the way IP is created, protected and managed. from 2023 to 2030 and the AI market size is estimated to reach $407 billion by 2027.