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Guest Blog: Want to Excel at Customer Service? Transform your Contact Centers into Customer Engagement Centers

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. For instance, IVRs and artificial intelligence enabled Chatbots can make the customer service easier and efficient. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken.

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Virtual Agents in 2020: Usage Spikes and the Banking Sector

Creative Virtual

There have been lots of discussions, articles and analyst deep dives into companies’ digital transformations being driven or accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated shutdowns and mitigation efforts. I’m curious to continue to watch how virtual agent traffic fluctuates as coronavirus-related restrictions change.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Total Cost Per Contact. Boost KPIs with Visual Self-Service.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center

Outsource Consultants

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. The common sense approach for handling AI is to opt for a fusion of human and virtual agents.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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From Q-and-A to Two-Way: Conversational AI is the Future of Voice Assistants

SmartAction

In a March 15, 2023 article – “ How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Chatbots are, indeed, a different kind of virtual assistant. Through the power of newer Conversational AI, chatbots are rapidly improving. Nowhere are these advances more evident than those seen in virtual assistants.

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Step 2 of 5: AI Self-Service Without Compromise – Virtual Agents Need “Guardrails”

SmartAction

This combination has led to the growing adoption of AI-powered virtual agents to automate conversations traditionally handed by live agents. Best Practice #2: Virtual agents need “guardrails”. There is a fine line between what should be automated by conversational AI and what should be transferred to live agents.