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11 Highlights From the 2015 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Experience Matters

This week, I attended the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference , Once again, I really enjoyed hearing players, owners, general managers, members of the press, and experts discuss two of my favorite topics: #sports and #analytics. 3) Communications and relevance is critical. Scott Pioli (Assistant General Manager, Atlanta Falcons) said that “ Analytics are only as good as they can be communicated.”

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Leading Customer Experience as a Team Sport

ClearAction

Leading Customer Experience as a Team Sport Lynn Hunsaker Author Lynn Hunsaker at Super Bowl LVII stadium 2023 Leading customer experience as a team sport is essential because every player in your enterprise helps or hinders customer experience performance.

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Customer Experience Transformation to win “Sports Event of the Year”, With Lynn LaRocca – CB52

Customer Bliss

In 2015, Sports Business Journal called The Belmont Stakes “The Sporting Event Of The Year.” LaRocca joined NYRA in 2014 from Modell’s Sporting Goods, the largest privately held sporting goods retailer in the U.S., LaRocca, a graduate of Syracuse University, has a long interest in outdoor sports including racing and snow skiing. Throughout all this, there was always a large focus on events, experiences, and sports/sponsorship.

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Workforce Management Is a Team Sport

Playvox

Workforce management has a lot in common with team sports. And they both benefit from smart huddles, where planning, communication, and expectations converge. As with team sports, workforce management thrives when team members are engaged and encouraged to perform.

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Why Is Customer Service Key to the Success of Sports Betting Apps in Kansas?

CSM Magazine

There is no doubt that customer service is key to the success of sports betting apps in Kansas. Whether providing live betting odds or answering customer questions, sports betting apps need top-notch customer service to keep customers happy and coming back.

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e-Sports’ Global Tipping Point with Jason Lake, CEO of Complexity Gaming

C Space

e-Sports’ Global Tipping Point with Jason Lake, CEO of Complexity Gaming. Communications & Messaging

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How to Structure Your Customer Success Team

Totango

What makes a sports team successful? Finally, the team needs Customer Success Managers (CSMs) who are responsible for monitoring and communicating with clients frequently and promptly. Excellent athletes who work together on both offense and defense to win the game.

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Episode #20 – Communication Technology Pros and Cons at Work

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with technology service leader and speaker Brandon Caudle on the pros and cons of communication technology at work. The types of communication platforms organizations can use.

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Technology’s Most Significant Contribution to Sports Development

CSM Magazine

Technology advancements in sports have dramatically increased the quality of our favorite contests. It is not a new idea to use prosthetics for sports people to help them to participate in their preferred activities. As we all know, technology has progressed throughout time.

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Technology for 21st-Century, Experience-Driven Sports Fan Engagement

Avaya

The sports experience has become a 21st-Century medley of sights, smells, and experiences. Fan engagement is a wake-to-sleep business and requires better, and smarter, mobile, social, and digital-led environments to keep fans coming back to the stadium and being full-fledged members of the sports/team community. Communications that Come Full Circle. In a world of applications, real-time communication structures. Sensors in their jerseys, shoes, and helmets.

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7 Ways to Provide Online Sports Betting Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Service and convenience is driving the growth of online shops and services and that is why industries such as sports betting has boomed over the last few years. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when running an online sports betting business. Communication is Key.

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Head of Fan Experience at Fanatics Shares Why Employee and Customer Experience Go Hand in Hand

Customer Bliss

Fanatics is the world’s largest provider of officially licensed sports gear. In this episode, Carolyne speaks about the importance of employee experience at Fanatics and how that translates to a better customer experience for dedicated sports fans. What does the communication look like? It was extremely important that they had talent that would be passionate about the fans, especially for a sports-driven culture.

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Team Sport: Adobe’s Approach to In-Product Guides

Gainsight

In PX, there is customer communication support that aid in product adoption, which is vital for Adobe. The post Team Sport: Adobe’s Approach to In-Product Guides appeared first on Customer Success and Product Experience Software | Gainsight.

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Innovation is a team sport – with Janice Francisco

ThriveableBiz

Do you work within a team? It can be either frustrating, trying to balance different personalities OR a fun creative adventure. In this great interview with Janice Francisco from BridgePoint Effect , she shares her insights on how to bring different personalities together.

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Talk to stakeholders without sounding like a junior con-artist: Behavior-based communication with DISC for CX Leaders

Seaton CX

You desire authentic relationships with honest communication. Our style guides how we communicate. When we talk to stakeholders, we tend to communicate in our own style. But it’s fast and good enough to develop an understanding of another person’s communication style.

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5 Lasting Effects the 2020 Sports Season Cancellations Will Have on Fan Expectations

Maru Group

As nearly every major global sporting event has been canceled or suspended because of the coronavirus, sports fans are having to adapt and find new ways to channel their energy. When the rescheduling of The Masters hit fans hard, Turner Sports found a way to innovate.

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What is the Impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) on Communications Service Providers?

Guavus

Clearly, social distancing and self-isolation mean that telecommunications has become an elevated essential service, which of course, begs the urgent question: how will communications service providers (CSPs) meet the challenge of their new critical role in our changed world?

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Bundesliga Match Fact Win Probability: Quantifying the effect of in-game events on winning chances using machine learning on AWS

AWS Machine Learning

This way, event data, positions data, and outputs of different Bundesliga Match Facts can be communicated between containers real time. Javier Poveda-Panter is a Data Scientist for EMEA sports customers within the AWS Professional Services team.

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Predict football punt and kickoff return yards with fat-tailed distribution using GluonTS

AWS Machine Learning

Since joining the team in 2018, he has been responsible for ideation, development, and communication of key stats and insights derived from player-tracking data for fans, NFL broadcast partners, and the 32 clubs alike. Amazon ML Solutions Lab Amazon SageMaker Intermediate (200) Sports GluonT

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Face-off Probability, part of NHL Edge IQ: Predicting face-off winners in real time during televised games

AWS Machine Learning

He and his team of applied scientists and machine learning engineers work on a range of machine learning use cases from healthcare, sports, automotive and manufacturing. Amazon Kinesis Amazon ML Solutions Lab Amazon SageMaker AWS Professional Services Customer Solutions Sports

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Identifying defense coverage schemes in NFL’s Next Gen Stats

AWS Machine Learning

Since joining the team in 2018, he has been responsible for ideation, development, and communication of key stats and insights derived from player-tracking data for fans, NFL broadcast partners, and the 32 clubs alike. Amazon ML Solutions Lab Amazon SageMaker Intermediate (200) Sports

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From Sports to Service Centers: Listening and Responding to Newly Remote Employees

Qualtrics

Miller Group (LHM) runs the Utah Jazz, other sports teams, financing businesses, movie theaters, and auto dealerships in seven western states. Some workplaces, like movie theaters and sports arenas, have had to stay closed, while auto dealers and service centers have been deemed essential.

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Customer Success Is a Team Sport: Expert Guide to Playing It Well

SmartKarrot

This is why customer success is a team sport. Customer Success is a Team Sport, Not the Responsibility of a Single Team. Product teams need to keep customer success team communication open. Customer Success Customer Success Is a Team Sport customer success team

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Quick Ways to Adjust Your Communications for COVID-19

Optimove

In the past few weeks, I have had many meetings with clients – b2c/d2c brands from different verticals – who all seem to ponder over the same question: what’s the best way to communicate with your customers in such uncertain and sensitive times?

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Avaya Loyalty2gether: Take the Next Step on Your Communications Journey

Avaya

We talk a lot about innovation at Avaya, about the possibilities of how collaboration, AI, IoT, and communications enablement can drive Digital Transformation across industries as varied as professional sports, transportation, finance or healthcare. And when asked about the impact of being able to customize their communications to their needs the top three responses were: Lower stress level.

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TEN DIGIT Communications Selects ID R&D to Provide Continuous, Zero-Effort Biometric Authentication to its Intelligent Messaging Platform

CSM Magazine

The company’s DC BRIDGE® customers will be authenticated by keystroke, facial liveness, and voice biometrics, offering seamless user experience across the customer communication lifecycle. Using TDC BRIDGE® company representatives can move easily between text, voice, and link and photo sharing when communicating with customers, all while having access to necessary CRM and AI systems and essential company databases. About TEN DIGIT Communications.

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What Will be Your Leadership Legacy?

Russel Lolacher

Sports games easily fall under this category with a focus on wins/losses and stats to show who’s better than whom. Leadership Communication empathy finite game great leaders humanity infinite game leadership LegacyLegacy is a funny thing.

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3 Steps to Avoid Customer Service Disasters

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

They wore crowns, had expressions, and even sported jewelry! Don’t communicate. If there is no communication, we can whip up a worst-case scenario faster than you can say Larry David. Deciding NOT to communicate is deciding TO disappoint. If the shipping is late or the product needs more time, communication is your best ally with customers. It’s difficult to over communicate when it comes to customer issues. Communicate often.

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Creating Connection to Improve Work Culture with Chris Hsiung

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. No Ponzi schemes in this communication council.

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Beyond Buy-in. 5 Stages of CX Engagement

Seaton CX

But CX is a team sport, and we need them to put on a uniform—and commit time, people, or money to the project. Customer Experience Leadership Change Management Communication Influence

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Troubles with Online Communication: Things You Should Remember

LiveChat

Most of today’s communication happens online. Online communication is a big part of our lives: work and private and it sometimes results in confusion. Since we completely skipped from offline to online communication , we don’t even realize how our words are being received. First, I’ll give you an overall advice and then divide them by the most popular communication channels we use these days at work. These are just the rules of online communication.

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How to Create the Most Spectacular Customer Service Disasters

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

They wore crowns, had expressions, and even sported jewelry! Don’t communicate. If there is no communication, we can whip up a worst-case scenario faster than you can say Larry David. Deciding NOT to communicate is deciding TO disappoint. So if the shipping is late or the product needs more time, communication is your best ally with customers. It’s difficult to over communicate when it comes to customer issues. Communicate often.

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The Power of Rudiments (Within CX)

Horizon CX

Whether you’re talking about playing an instrument, playing chess, playing sports, practicing yoga, or becoming a CX professional, a good foundation is crucial to accomplishment. Mastering the rudiments or basics of just about any pursuit can be critical to overall success.

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Podcast: Going to Extremes for Customers, with Sarah Robb O’Hagan

Bain

Sarah Robb O’Hagan , CEO of the indoor cycling company Flywheel Sports , knows this scenario well. More than five years ago, she helped turn around PepsiCo’s multibillion-dollar Gatorade brand when she was president of the sports drink’s division. She went on to serve as president of the luxury gym operator Equinox before taking the helm at Flywheel Sports, which operates boutique fitness studios. Leadership and communication Outer loop Podcast

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The new rules of engagement (according to customers)

C Space

Communications & Messaging Customer ExperienceThe new rules of engagement (according to customers). How did 2020 change the rules of engagement between customers and brands? For nearly a decade, we’ve tracked the connection between companies and customers.

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Transforming Venues Through Digital Enterprise Practices

Avaya

A case in point is the sports industry, where fans have transformed from viewers to broadcasters. It should come as no surprise that a recent study by Spider Marketing conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States indicated that sports fans who own mobile devices are conducting more online activities than ever before. That’s costing the sports industry on a number of levels. Generally speaking, enterprises are more advanced than the wider sports industry.

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Keeping Up with Customer Insight

Wired and Dangerous

Toward the end of the allotted interview time, one customer launched into a long tirade chastising the utility on the poor way they had handled communication during a major outage. Another lesson is: always assume customer communications are like an iceberg — truth lies under the surface. And only the customer, under the attentiveness and interest of a great communicator, will reveal their truth. Remember: great listening is a contact sport, not a spectator sport.

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Does Who’s Driving the CX Bus Make A Difference?

InMoment XI

CX success also hinges upon appointing a leader who is an effective communicator and can sell a vision, create alignment based on shared business goals, and curate a shared understanding of customer needs, expectations, and journeys.

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Why businesses need to use social media as a customer service channel by Elena Lockett

ijgolding

Experts in digital communications, FM Outsource helps businesses respond to and engage with customers across email, Facebook, Instagram, SMS, Trustpilot, Twitter, voice and webchat. Working with start-up businesses through to enterprise level clients, we offer experience and services across a range of verticals including catering, fashion, finance, logistics, sports, retail and utilities.

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Keep This Ol’ Cliché in Mind When Communicating with your Players: Timing is Everything

Optimove

Many sport betting operators send their communications – whether it is ad-hoc information campaign based on weekend matches or automated promotions – to all their players at the same time. Most of sport events occur during weekends, which dramatically effects the betting trend that reaches the weekly peak on Saturday. Every sport betting company knows their customers’ strongest days of the week, though the days can vary for different regions. Not Only Sport.

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