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Customer Journey Mapping in the Contact Center

BlueOcean

No matter what action you take, the point is that your journey as a customer started before you made that call. But too many contact centers assume the opposite; that your journey starts the moment an agent picks up the phone. That assumption is very often the catalyst in creating a less-than-satisfactory customer experience.

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Create powerful self-service experiences with Amazon Lex on Talkdesk CX Cloud contact center

AWS Machine Learning

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots.

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Can You Train Contact Center Agents in Empathy?

BlueOcean

We already know most people hate calling tech support and even in basic customer service scenarios, consumers prefer to use self-serve options over contacting a customer service agent directly. That makes us curious: can you train contact center agents in empathy? Empathy Must Be a Core Value in Your Contact Center.

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Back to Basics: Contact Center Trending Technology 101

Upstream Works

The most obvious example of a channel would be Voice, or calls placed to a call center or contact center to be answered by the next available agent, courtesy of call center software. An organization offering multiple customer channels is often referred to as having a “multichannel” contact center.

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

The same holds true in the contact center. What Alexa's Smart Display Can Teach Your Call Center. If you’re one of the growing number of contact centers looking to implement a multimodal virtual agent, here are some best practices to get you started. View Webinar.

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Uniphore Unveils the Industry’s Broadest and Most Comprehensive Conversational Automation Platform

Uniphore

This empowers contact center agents to deliver highly effective, personalized and empathetic interactions. Digital transformation is key to contact centers providing the ultimate modern day customer service experience and how conversations are handled during the entire customer journey — pre, during and post interaction.

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What Does Amazon Connect Mean for the Contact Center?

West Monroe

Not only did it go from an online bookstore to one of the largest retailers in the world, but Amazon has now tapped contact centers. Amazon Web Services recently announced Amazon Connect – a simple and cost effective, cloud-based contact center technology that has left the contact center industry (and us) buzzing.