Fonolo

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the labor shortage, a workforce in transition, and the dynamic (but disruptive) impact of AI, managing a contact center in 2024 can be a real workout. Why not take a break from the heavy lifting for a moment, and check out Fonolo’s annual State of the Contact Center report? This e-book is one of our most anticipated documents of the year, featuring insights from industry experts about the topics that matter most in today’s contact center.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: I am excited. My wife and I are going on a cruise to India. It’s a big splurge for us, and we look forward to it. I mention it here, not to rub it in your face (much), but because in the booking of this cruise, I saw an excellent example of how my wife and I leverage mental accounting regarding our splurges.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to build performant and customized Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on top of AWS and third-party vector stores using both AWS and third-

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Image by Mikko Koivuneva from Pixabay Whether it’s called a one-on-one meeting, or a coaching conversation, or a performance check-in, this regular conversation between a supervisor and an employee is essential to an effective and high-performing contact center. In a recent article on Why Contact Center Quality Assurance Matters I stated my case for a robust and consistent quality assurance program.

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Step-by-step instructions on how to use AI for growth in your contact center Learn how AI can transform your contact center operations. In this ebook, dig into the different AI technologies, then see how each can help automate tasks, streamline service, and turn your contact center from a cost center to a profit house. Plus, we’ll give you practical tips on choosing the right AI tools, getting them up and running, and measuring their impact.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

AI’s growing influence in large organizations brings crucial challenges in managing AI platforms. These include developing a scalable and operationally efficient platform that adheres to organizational compliance and security standards. Amazon SageMaker Studio offers a comprehensive set of capabilities for machine learning (ML) practitioners and data scientists.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Creating scalable and efficient machine learning (ML) pipelines is crucial for streamlining the development, deployment, and management of ML models. In this post, we present a framework for automating the creation of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) for Amazon SageMaker Pipelines based on simple configuration files. The framework code and examples presented here only cover model training pipelines, but can be readily extended to batch inference pipelines as well.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the bustling world of retail, the customer experience reigns supreme. Retailers are continuously seeking innovative ways to enhance customer engagement and satisfaction.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

OpenSearch is a scalable, flexible, and extensible open source software suite for search, analytics, security monitoring, and observability applications, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it straightforward to deploy, scale, and operate OpenSearch in the AWS Cloud. OpenSearch uses a probabilistic ranking framework called BM-25 to calculate relevance scores.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lumoa Product News for February 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Getting Started with Ask Lumoa Ask Lumoa is our new way to get a deeper understanding of your customer voice.

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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Cyara

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the realm of customer service, ensuring absolute truthfulness can be a daunting task, even for human agents. We’re all subject to our moods and biases, which can sometimes lead to unavoidable mistruths. However, when it comes to technology, our expectations soar. We hold bots to a high standard, assuming they operate on a binary system of correctness.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Unless you’ve been under a proverbial rock, you’ve heard and seen a massive amount of change in customer service — particularly in the past year. Many are pronouncing that there is no greater revolution in customer care than what’s happening right now. Directors and managers of call centers are likely getting questioned by peers in leadership with questions such as, “How are we prepared for Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Social Impact Partner Spotlight series highlights various Cisco non-profit organization partners that are helping transform the lives of individuals and communities.

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Transparent BPO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nearly a Decade of Experience, with a Track Record of Success Rockville, MD – Transparent BPO would like to announce the promotion of Kurt Camal, to Director of Operations, as recognition of his hard work, and impact on both employees specifically, and his programs in general. Kurt brings nearly a decade of experience, all with […] The post Transparent BPO Appoints Kurt Camal as Director of Operations appeared first on Transparent BPO.

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CX leaders are in a gold rush for AI, lured by the promise of cost savings and a revolution in service delivery. But simply deploying AI in your contact center isn't a magic bullet. There are hidden dangers that can derail your AI dreams. Recent incidents, such as the missteps of an AI chatbot deployed by Air Canada, have underscored the complexities and risks involved in leveraging AI in customer-facing roles.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This is the second blog in our three-part series about Cisco Foundation climate grantees working in the Amazon and South America region.

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Transparent BPO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

An expert in strategic planning and process enhancement Rockville, MD – Transparent BPO would like to announce our very own Anna Acosta’s promotion to Director of Operations, as recognition of their role in the growth and development of both the programs she has been involved with, as well as TBPO as a whole. Anna joined […] The post Transparent BPO Appoints Anna Acosta as Director of Operations appeared first on Transparent BPO.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The tedious task of logging Continuing Education (CE) credits can be a frustrating speed bump in the certification journey.

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Nicereply

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A good customer experience builds customer loyalty and brand value, helping you reach a wider audience through word-of-mouth marketing and other marketing strategies. So, it doesn’t come as a surprise to see brands obsessing over creating a seamless end-to-end customer experience or working towards improving the existing workflow while considering user behavior.

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Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Internet of Things (IoT) remains one of the stronger markets in which customers are considering investing.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The working relationship between customer success and support teams can make, break, or even supercharge your customer experience, as Jaclyn Mullen of TheLoops showed attendees of ChurnZero’s most recent webinar. Build the right kind of relationship and processes between CS and support, and you’ll enable a seamless, frictionless experience.

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Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

7 Key Indicators Your MSP Call Center Needs a Revolutionary Shift For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), a call center is extremely crucial. That’s one of their most potent tools to deliver exceptional customer service. The MSP market has become extremely competitive and customer service matters a lot in providing a competitive edge. As per one recent study by Datto, MSPs, on average, serve 122 clients.

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24-7 InTouch

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With analysts’ predictions suggesting that “1 in 10 agent interactions will be [fully] automated by 2026,” generative AI plays a crucial role in customer experience. This tool goes beyond conventional machine learning’s predictive capabilities, advancing artificial intelligence and expanding its applications and potential. With the advancements of generative AI, a common challenge is grasping its intricacies and how to best adapt them for your brand.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Horizon CX

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Power of Purging Perfunctory Performance Introduction In the bustling world of business, where metrics often dominate discussions and efficiency reigns supreme, one crucial aspect can sometimes be overlooked: the human element. While efficiency and productivity are undoubtedly essential, businesses must not forget the importance of treating customers with genuine kindness and respect.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Personalizing omnichannel experiences involves tailoring your interactions with customers across multiple channels to meet their unique needs and preferences. Here are some tips on how to personalize omnichannel experiences: 1. Collect customer data: Collect data on your customers such as their purchase history, preferences, and behavior across different channels.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This guest post is written by Vihan Lakshman, Tharun Medini, and Anshumali Shrivastava from ThirdAI. Large-scale deep learning has recently produced revolutionary advances in a vast array of fields. Although this stunning progress in artificial intelligence remains remarkable, the financial costs and energy consumption required to train these models has emerged as a critical bottleneck due to the need for specialized hardware like GPUs.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the growing market of mobile app development, providing top-notch customer service can be the deciding factor that makes your app stand out. Exceptional customer service is not just about addressing issues; it’s about creating a positive, enduring relationship with your users, ultimately helping to retain and attract a loyal customer base. For mobile app developers, the challenge is to integrate customer service in ways that resonate with tech-savvy users.

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This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, a colleague of mine at Sabio pointed me in the direction of an interesting article that was published in the Daily Telegraph entitled ‘Why Aren’t We Being Served?’. The feature – which was the cover story in the UK-based publication’s weekend magazine edition – was focused on the latest Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI) from the Institute of Customer Service – which painted a bleak picture for UK businesses.

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