Avaya

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. The post Why Artificial Intelligence Now—and Why in Customer Care?

Customer Care 94

Customer Care Contact Center Government Healthcare 94

SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation. Those that embrace new technologies to enhance the customer experience often pull ahead exponentially, leaving those that stagnate to fall ever further behind.

Contact Center 97

Contact Center Self Service Customer Care Innovation 97

NICE inContact

JULY 5, 2019

This was a great opportunity to meet customer service leaders from all over the world and hear what they are up to “on the frontlines” in their contact centers. In this blog, I share some highlights from the show. After the demo, I talked to a contact center director from Texas named Ruby.

Contact Center 139

Contact Center Omni-Channel CRM Innovation 139

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Customer Journeys Self Service How To 40

COPC

JANUARY 31, 2018

In our quarterly blog series, Ask the Experts, we ask COPC Inc. experts questions about specific areas for improving operational performance in call centers, customer experience operations, vendor management organizations and procurement. In this edition of Ask the Experts, we chatted with Kathleen Jezierski, COPC Inc.’s

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Chatbots Self Service Call Center 40

SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation. Those that embrace new technologies to enhance the customer experience often pull ahead exponentially, leaving those that stagnate to fall ever further behind.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self Service Customer Care Innovation 52

Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience. But deciding on annual goals and specific yearly focuses for a call center isn’t always easy. Tip: Begin to examine your existing contact center processes.

Contact Center 106

Contact Center Report Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 106

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Actual customer contact agents, however, prioritize something else: the effort required to perform their work. Agents obviously value bright contact centers and great salaries, but their daily happiness hinges far more greatly on systems and processes. Goal: Adopt Chatbots. Are the tools easy to use?

Omni-Channel 96

Omni-Channel Self Service Policies Abandon Rate 96

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

Customer Care 54

Customer Care Customer Centricity Metrics Social Media 54

TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

of major companies around the world are currently using AI customer service technologies, the second most common use of AI after IT. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85% of all customer interactions will no longer be managed by humans. Customer Identification. Contact Center workload management. Biometrics.

Technology 122

Technology Customer Service Contact Center Gamification 122

ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

With time, enough data and better algorithms, AI will learn to handle complex tasks, but customer agents will still help customers with complicated matters. KLM used a chatbot with Facebook Messenger to serve 15% of boarding passes to customers via the Messenger and DigitalGenius. Better customer support, aided by AI.

Self Service 74

Self Service Chatbots Social Media Insurance 74

Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

For some strange reason that 10% statistic is popping up more lately—like the recent Bain & Company survey that indicated only 10% of business leaders believe that the primary purpose of their firms is to maximize value for customers. But I digress, that’s another topic for another blog. By calling their Customer Careline.

Customer Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Average Handle Time Survey 130

NICE inContact

JUNE 11, 2019

Every business is different, and so is every customer. But when it comes to the benefits of digital customer service, these seem to go across the board. Digital customer service and an omnichannel approach that includes powerful tools like chatbots and live chat are just the thing to help solve this issue.

Industry 136

Industry Self Service Customer Service Banking 136

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Check out this audio version of our blog, also found on your favorite podcast platform! What effect this has on a brand depends heavily on how robust the brand’s marketing, community, and customer care systems are. This fact is especially true in the diverse world of customer care. The Khoros effect.

Airlines 52

Airlines Self Service Effort Score NPS 52

Avaya

JULY 22, 2016

Artificial Intelligence is becoming the new consumer expectation and with it comes virtual reality, chat bots and augmented reality. The team is currently working on an advanced chat bot that delivers an AI experience in the contact center by enabling machine learning to model customer language and dialog interactions.

Chatbots 40

Chatbots Self Service Customer Experience Contact Center 40

Playvox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From driving assistance to data analysis to chatbots, generative AI (GenAI) is finding its usefulness in a host of ways across all industries. One of the most impactful uses is how AI is transforming customer experience (CX). How Quality Management Processes Have Shifted It could be called the perfect storm for contact centers.

Contact Center 75

Contact Center Management Effort Score Call Center 75

COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization.

Industry 114

Industry Customer Experience Analytics Training 114

West Monroe

OCTOBER 15, 2018

As we wrote about in our recent white paper, Contact Center of the Future: Conversational Bots and Empowered Agents , the role of the contact center agent will change tremendously in the years to come. Consider comparing contact center agents to a diamond in the rough.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Training 40

ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

ViiBE Blog Customer service challenges of remote work Anna Gorina January 19, 2022 Share this article Contents Share this article Contents Before 2020, only a few companies across the globe had remote work best practices in place where they were used to allowing team members to work from home for a certain period of time regularly.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Net Promoter Score CRM e-support 52

AWS Machine Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As per the Forrester report, The State Of Customer Obsession, 2022 , being customer-first can make a sizable impact on an organization’s balance sheet, as organizations embracing this methodology are surpassing their peers in revenue growth.

Contact Center 93

Contact Center Call Center e-support Knowledge Base 93

ViiBE Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today, according to Gartner , 76% of customer service and support functions have 80% to 100% of their staff working from home. At a time when 92% of customers expect their customer care contact levels to be just like what it was pre-pandemic, companies have to ensure that customers get a good service experience and do not leave.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Net Promoter Score e-support CRM 52

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Today in most company’s ownership of digital channels is siloed outside the contact center, typically in marketing. Some specific examples are: A customer calls the contact center with a billing issue.

Self Service 159

Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center Fashion 159

NICE inContact

AUGUST 6, 2019

1) Centrally managing next generation digital interactions in the contact center. Today in most company’s ownership of digital channels is siloed outside the contact center, typically in marketing. Some specific examples are: A customer calls the contact center with a billing issue.

Self Service 136

Self Service Omni-Channel Contact Center Fashion 136

Lithium

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Check out this audio version of our blog, also found on your favorite podcast platform! Losing and hiring frontline customer care agents can cost more than a few lost customers Can you afford to lose more? Regarding customer care, recent trends show that agents often find themselves in the latter half of the two options.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center NPS Customer Care Chatbots 52

Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

What Are the Benefits of Customer Service Software? Customer service tools can transform customer service for companies of any size. Utilizing these tools enables faster, more efficient, personalized support while still imparting a brand-specific and customer-centric experience.

Software 98

Software Tools Customer Service Self Service 98

NICE inContact

JUNE 18, 2019

Companies using omnichannel customer service can unify customer requests and conversations from social media, live chat (consumers using chat was up 3x last year), email, forums, blogs, mobile apps, and contact forms in one platform. Key takeaway: It’s vital to be available on channels your customers use.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Omni-Channel Net Promoter Score Social Media 136

Upstream Works

JUNE 10, 2019

Messaging apps are an easy way for customers to interact with your brand while on the go – and their popularity is rapidly increasing. Throw chatbots into the mix and you’ve got customers who can help themselves with simple transactions. Video and Co-Browse Customer Care. Here are some of the highlights of UWF V4.0

Contact Center 60

Contact Center Contact Center Software Omni-Channel Customer Centricity 60

Integrity Solutions

JULY 26, 2019

Each year, Customer Contact Week (CCW) provides a good opportunity to get a pulse of the trends, possibilities and challenges of leading contact centers and customer experience organizations. Contact Center Challenges: Behind the Numbers.

Customer Engagement 65

Customer Engagement Engagement Contact Center Self Service 65

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

According to 71% of consumers, customer service at large organizations has stayed the same or gotten worse in the past few years. 38% of respondents of a recent survey on CX, enhancing service levels is the top aim for contact centers in 2022. How are B2B companies driving customer experience? If not, check out this blog.

Customer Experience 10

Customer Experience Social Media B2B e-support 10

NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

More recently, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in customer care has been one that contact center managers have wanted to learn more about. And yet, Lauren presented data that only 57% of contact centers monitor interactions other than voice, e.g., email or chat, for quality.

Omni-Channel 45

Omni-Channel Management Contact Center Self Service 45

Pointillist

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While marketing, CX, customer care and other leaders within your organization may strive to share insights, accessing the data in their systems is cumbersome at best and rarely happens in real time. Using Pointillist, she sees that the decrease in approvals is linked to an increase in self-service chatbot usage and FAQ pageviews.

Customer Journeys 45

Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Experience How To 45

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). As contact centers make a concerted push towards self-service, discovering cross-channel journeys becomes even more important.

First Call Resolution 75

First Call Resolution Self Service Call Center Effort Score 75

Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). As contact centers make a concerted push towards self-service, discovering cross-channel journeys becomes even more important.

First Call Resolution 40

First Call Resolution Self Service Call Center Effort Score 40

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It is a hybrid execution leveraging automation and machine learning so real agents can better handle customer inquiries. The technical implementation combines a collection of technologies — chatbots, micro-applications, knowledge center, widgets, a dialog engine, engagement engine, APIs, etc. under an integration layer.

Call Center 87

Call Center Contact Center Omni-Channel Chatbots 87

Comm100

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term ‘customer engagement software’ alone encompasses a wide variety of services, which results in pages that lump together very different types of solutions. This makes it difficult for customers to shop for the software that would be most appropriate for their business. PR Software.

Social Media 124

Social Media CRM Self Service Software 124

Thematic

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In this blog, we’ll discuss how to u nderstand your Voice of Customer (VOC) insights and why this is important. What are your customers actually telling you and how do you analyze this information to get to meaningful insights? A new take on Voice of Customer: driven by insights.

Voice of Customer 101

Voice of Customer Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 101